So I'm in the process of rescanning all my film negatives and slides right now in an attempt to get better quality images and re-edits to sell as prints and I'm coming up with plenty of good stuff. A good amount to sell but for the most part, just memorable moments in the past that I've forgotten.
I came across this one particular image and I can remember the day and the moments that led up to this image. This photo was a snafu. It was sometime in October of 2007 and me and two other friends decided to take to subway from the Valley into LA and into Olivera St. to hang out and take photos. As we were walking around the flea market type shops in Olivera St., my friend Alex saw this one dude that caught his eye. He, remarked about how well and dapper the guy was dressed and wanted to take a photo of him. If I'm not mistaken, he had his holga? or maybe he didn't have a camera at all that day. Can't really remember but I do remember handing over my camera to him and told him to go ahead and take the photo. So he took my camera and chased down the guy. Flagged him down and took his photo. After he did so, he comes back and hands me back the camera and I asked how it turned out. He was pretty excited about capturing the guy and told me he wanted a copy of the photo once I had the negatives scanned. I neglected to tell him before shooting the guy that I was going to xpro the roll so the colors might shift a bit weird and he was disappointed upon hearing the news but I said, hey you never know. The image might turn out super dope regardless of the color shift. This...awesomely red shifted image is the result of xpro'ing the roll and the guy is now forever red rusted. I really don't think the image is bad really. I rather like it. To be fair and honest though, I wonder what the image would've been like had I developed the roll correctly....
What do you guys think? Obviously the gentleman is quite dapper indeed!
Film used was Fuji's Astia 100 slide film.
P.S.
- Sorry Alex!