Happy Accidents, I guess.

I finally bought a scanner that will work with my 4x5 film. Get home with it all excited, set it up, and get ready to scan in some of my recent film. Just my luck one of sets I was really looking forward to had something leak on it on the trip back from Galveston where I took them several weeks ago. They had all been tray developed in the bathroom of the beach house and I guess something leaked on the way back home those several weeks ago. One corner was stuck together, bad! Like kids in a divorce they didn't take the separation very well.

I scanned them anyway. The results were unexpectedly nice in a weird way. At least I think so. Shabby photo chic maybe? I've tried the intentional scratching of film and such long ago and never did like the results or got the technique down, but I have to say I'm kinda find of the way these naturally ended up.

Speaking of grain, I never realized just how much film size effected how grain appears. I shot the same film (HP5 400iso) in 35mm and 4x5 and using a normal lens on both, developed them in the same soup, and the grain is huge on the 35mm and barely noticeable on the large format.

Go all out on 'em. Try doing some grungy texture overlays and see how they come out.