DeJarnette Ctr. 3

I like this one very much. Heavy symbolism (whether intended or not). Abandoned. Broken locks. Things have changed a lot in the past 25 years, mostly for the better.

Well done, Keith.

Thanks Michael, I appreciate your comments.

I was really quite depressed in the center, I didn't know what the hell to take pictures of. It's abandoned, and basically haunted by all sorts of nightmarish stories... and vandals and pigeons.

I don't know if you are aware, but DeJarnette was a practitioner of eugenics, advocating sterilization of the mentally disabled. Knowing that, I suppose I went there with some vague expectations, but yet there was very, very little to actually photograph. It's a desolate location, full of nothing but minimalist abstracts.

At the time (few months ago) I was also beginning to experiment with negative colour, thus the attempts with the "digibase" which I still need to put a lot more thought into. I did "flip" these to positives just like I would any c41 film scan, though my future intention with this film is to leave the negs as negs and print them as such. But when I saw these distorted colours, I thought they somehow might fit the subject matter.

Thanks again for your comments!

Keith

Keith, what do you mean with a "maskless" C-41 negative? Never heard that term before (but that's only my own ignorance)

Hoi Marco. It's the Rollei digibase.. "ohne Maskierung." It has no yellow/orange mask, such as you'd have with normal c41 colour films to make RA4 printing easier. I guess they call it "digibase cn 200" because it's supposedly going to be easier/better to scan, since it has no mask to remove.

pdf info sheets:

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/pdf/ROLLEI_DigibaseCN200_GB.pdf

"His unique qualities and many-sided application possibilities revolutionise the offer of monchrome colour films. He can be used universally for nearly all professional tasks. Thanks to his fineness of grain and the latitude of sensitivity of practically one f/stop underexposure, originate succinct admissions an unusual sharpness and tonal value reproduction. "

...and, apparently, he can be used to take reasonably effective photographs in abandoned mental institutions

Thanks for the info, but if scanning is the main goal of this film, going with slide might be an easier road, but than you wouldn't have these funky colours of course ;-)

But I now also understand why it has the blue / green cast. If you used the standard conversion or C-41 color negative film profiles during scanning, that need to expand the blue channels response considerably, that might lead to over saturation with blue / green with this particular film than.