Recently a very kind SF (The Gentleman Amateur) traded me my 600BW for his Fade2Black film. Although at first I vowed never to use f2b, seeing the amazing yellow-whites and red midtones and cyan shadows made me crazy with jealousy, but by the time I saw examples and changed my mind, it was all sold out.
I decided to document all the stages possible for what I shot. The whole pack was shot in 4 hours during a day at Sutro Baths/Seal Rock Beach/Sutro Heights park, probably my favorite place in the city limits of San Francisco. And walking distance. It was chilly and windy (WHICH I LOVE, geez people in the city are always complaining about fog and cold but that’s why I LOVE ITTTTT) and it reminded me of being on the moors, since I was hanging out among ruins. Except that I’ve never been to Great Britain, but it was always how I imagined it from BBC period films.
Left is an hour after I shot it, which I think darkened quickly since it was so cold. Right is by the time I got home and got everything ready to scan at first pass, almost dark!
In order to stop f2b from going all the way to black, you have to peel the Polaroid open and let it dry out, so you get two images. The left which holds all the form and most of the picture’s shading, but is in black & white! The right is the clear negative which houses the color. I love it because it looks like a painting.
This is the final peeling result, after putting the two halves back together…amazing that the colors lightened back to how they looked initially after I shot it. I got home a little disparaged because they darkened so quickly, but it all turned out beautifully I think.
The most beautiful colors chase the sun
They wrap her trail in a taunting gesture
That seems to sing out loud, “This is what you’re missing”
Sun Hands….such a good song.
I love living by the ocean. Baker Beach is a short walk away, and Seal Rock Beach is double the walk but also worth it. This past weekend, San Francisco was in the high 70′s and we spent the days basking in the sun along with hundreds of other people thankful for the chance at a summer glow.
Not as many Jersey Shore wannabes as in Santa Cruz, thankfully, but if you wander closer to Golden Gate Bridge then you may see a naked body or ten (part of Baker Beach is a nude beach! heh), so each area has its downfalls. But lots of sun. My hair is blonder already!
Really funny interview from the makers is on Motionographer. I love that they used all these styles and did them using analog methods…or…at least, not using a ton of standard effects in After Effects. Real work, I love it.
Growing up is difficult to me, not because of dealing with money and paying rent and doing taxes and hangovers and growing wider, but really just moving away from friends. The chosen exodus in four directions after high school and college graduations. Here in California, I have my good friends but no best friends (excluding Brian, o’course), and boy do I miss youse guyse. Alphabetical order GO!
Ame, bridge balancer extraordinaire, lives in Austin and hangs out at music festivals and rivers.
Emily, sun catcher back then with short hair, lives in Winston-Salem for grad school and hangs out with cats/bunnies/bears.
Julie, whose hair glows pink in the snow, is also in Austin but strangely doesn’t know Ame.
And Sarah, my first Esquire Theatre friend that was formed by her making fun of me, a sign of a similar mindset. Currently MIA (but possibly in Ohio, Kentucky, or Alabama?), due to cancelling her cell phone/facebook/not responding to my emails because they may be in a spam folder. :(((
whoa whoa two posts in one day?! These are my latest forays in the new(ish) PX100 film. By latest I mean I took these during the last month. May has flown by so quickly! Especially for being a month with 31 days – somehow I’ve lost my sense of time. (It’s hard spending so much time alone these days!)
*Steff modeling a dress that sold like 3 hours after I listed it on etsy. I love it when that happens!
Almost two weeks ago, Brian/DanBecker/Jayeon/DanClifton and I drove down to Monterey Bay to go to the aquarium, which, although expensive, is the best lit & populated aquarium I’ve ever been to! I had an entire 34 exposure roll of film (after ruining yet another roll of film thanks to the threads breaking. Sad face) full of perfect jellyfish and seahorses and other aquatic things.
Aaaand a bonus, a seal hanging out on a boat by the Monterey Pier. This would’ve been topped by the seal being on that paddle boat, but, it’s hard to art direct an animal.
Alright. ‘Roid Week gets better every season and year, and ended last Friday, but thanks to an awesome weekend (Monterey Bay Aquarium! Lotsa photos coming up), I didn’t post my favorites yet. So here they are.
This blog is a compilation of the words, images, and the inspiration of Amalia Sieber. (Oh yes, her last name is not 'chimera,' but it is mythical.)
And more..
I am a photographer, designer, animator, all wrapped up in a neat little package of scraps.
I love film, I have rosy cheeks, I wear white dresses, I live in outer space, I live deep in the molten core of the earth, I have walked on the moon, I cannot do the Frug.
