I tried to provide a variety of subjects in this submission. All are taken with a Mercury Stereo 12, with a variety of lenses. And perhaps most interestingly, none of these are shot on contemporary slide films. Three of the four are shot on negatives and printed to slides using M-Alchemy‘s new M-Chrome process, while one is shot on 40-year old Ektachrome 64!
Split
Part of a “cinematic” series I shot in 2023, this image was taken in an impossibly tight space with the 47mm Super Angulon lens, one of my absolute favorites. This is Kodak 250D cinema film pushed to 1600 ISO, printed by M-Alchemy into slide form. This is an example of a shot that wouldn’t be feasible with slide film; the color would be far off, detail would be gone, and the exposure would be far too long for human subjects. A lot of dramatic license is taken in this narrative image; I hope you find it interesting!
Fall Canopy
Here I tried to capture different colors at different heights of this tree. While this would have worked just fine with slide film, I wanted to test the M-Chrome process (negative to slide printing) for color saturation, and was quite pleased with the result. 80mm lenses.
Circulation
If M.C. Escher was an urban designer? This was a real infrastructure project in my neighborhood that I stumbled across one day. I thought such a bizarre subject deserved some retro film, and shot it on 70mm Ektrachrome 64 that expired in the 1980s. 55mm lenses.
Canoe
I shot this deep in the Amazon jungle, about 8 hours (by car and canoe) from the nearest modern infrastructure or town. The Wairani people have very little contact with “modern” communities, and retain many of their traditional ways. Here a family was kind enough to take me on a canoe ride to their home. This negative went through hell, but I still thought it would be interesting to make an M-Chrome of it. 65mm lenses, ISO 400-800 (I can’t remember exactly).
