This was shot on a Brownie 2F that had a rough day out — it popped open inside my backpack and light crept onto the film before I noticed. Only the frames either side of this one caught some fog too; the rest of the roll was well protected. But on this one the leak wrapped the scene in a luminous haze and left the tree floating as a dark mass. It reads almost pictorialist to me, which is funny coming from a tin box camera that just failed to stay shut.
Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1+100 semi-stand. Camera-scanned (Pentax 50mm f/1.7 + Pentax 2x teleconverter, f/8, ISO 100) over a homemade light table and inverted with a tool I built myself, plus light tonal work in Affinity — the luminous edges are the real light leak, nothing added.
So: does the accident work? Is it a keeper that earns its place because of the error, or am I just being seduced by a happy mistake? Honest opinions welcome.
Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1+100 semi-stand. Camera-scanned (Pentax 50mm f/1.7 + Pentax 2x teleconverter, f/8, ISO 100) over a homemade light table and inverted with a tool I built myself, plus light tonal work in Affinity — the luminous edges are the real light leak, nothing added.
So: does the accident work? Is it a keeper that earns its place because of the error, or am I just being seduced by a happy mistake? Honest opinions welcome.
