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| Hannah Parkhouse -25 January 2025 |
Even though I am a man of the 20th century I am aware of some of the many pleasant surprises of this century. One of them involves combining the photographic technology of that past century with this one.
I shoot film and do digital with my Fuji X-E1 and X-E3 cameras. I have a very good Epson P700 inkjet printer and an excellent Epson V700 scanner. This means that I can scan the negatives and slides of that other century (and the ones I shoot now) with that scanner. One of my techniques is what I call “Scanner negative sandwiches without mayonnaise”. I place one negative over the other (best when from the same session) and the results mimic (better in my opinion) what some photographers do with Photoshop Layers. I like the mechanical method of mine.
A recent experiment involves me scanning colour negatives with b+w negatives together. The main photograph in this blog involves a further variation. I scanned the colour negative and b+w negative of Sarah Parkhouse (took the pictures this past Sunday) as positives. Once scanned, I reversed them in my 22 year-old Photoshop 8. The other pictures here are of treating the sandwiches as the negatives that they are.
