Camera: Fed 2
Lens: Jupiter 8
Film: Fuji Neopan 1600
Settings: f2.8, 1/60
Chemical influence: Caffiene, Sugar
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1.15.10 / 5am
Sweet pictures Barrett. That was fast turnaround on film processing. What are you using to scan with?
1.15.10 / 6am
To process film, I use Diafine. It takes about 20 minutes, and at this time of year the film dries really quickly due to the low humidity. I love that.
I scan the film with an Epson 4490 scanner.
I cropped these somewhat, which kind of goes against what I’ve been doing. Normally, I just scan and dump, because I’m trying to show my process of learning. Sometimes I shave the rough edges off, but that’s it.
I thought these could do with some cropping, so I cut them a little bit, but I haven’t messed with anything else. Other than some mild cropping, these are straight out of the hopper.
To crop shots, I use GIMP. I hate GIMP. Seriously, I really, really hate it. But I can’t afford Photoshop right now, so I have to use what’s free. That’s okay, though, because I’m trying to do with less digital processing. Even cropping is a little extreme for me right now. I want to do everything in-camera and/or with chemicals and film.
1.15.10 / 7am
Gallagher with his shirt of is nearly as horrifying as Carrot Top with his shirt off.
2.11.10 / 12pm
Hey Barrett, can I post this on my blog if I give you all the proper credit and link back to your blog?
2.11.10 / 1pm
@Kelli: I suppose.
About Me:
My name is Barrett Chase and I live in a place called Duluth, Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior. By trade I’m a processing clerk for the US Postal Service, and if your first impulse is to crack a joke about how all postal workers are insane, you don’t know the half of it.
I reside in a brick duplex with a really nice deck that overlooks the lake. My girlfriend Christa lives here too, along with her 30-pound tomcat. We have walls full of books, we eat a lot of vegetables, and we watch a lot of TV. It’s a pretty good life.
If you’d like to learn more about life in Duluth, check out Perfect Duluth Day, a blog I co-created and administrate.
About The Product:
Back in 2002, I started this website as a place to post my weekly comic, Occam’s Razor. I didn’t know what a blog was then, but I had a section on the front page called “News” that I updated whenever I had anything newsworthy to say. One day in early 2003, while working at a part-time job where I did basically nothing except kill time surfing the internet, I discovered weblogs. Two days later, I started my own.
In 2005, I finally gave the blog a name, The Product, and I wrote a tongue-in-cheek manifesto explaining my ideas of what a blog should be like. I also switched from using Blogger to using Movable Type. That worked out fairly well until I upgraded to Movable Type 4, which is a horrible piece of software.
For awhile, I tried videoblogging, but that kind of sucked.
In the summer of 2008, I switched from MT4 to Wordpress. I used to design my own templates, but I stopped doing that.
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