Deterioration Series by Robert Farber

[Steve Ricoh]

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Fabulous images: http://farber.com/collections/deterioration.php

How would you go about accelerating the process if time isn’t on your side? Maybe souping?

Bit of a mess up with the title, should read ‘Deterioration’...

Edited July 1, 2021 by Steve Ricoh

[stray cat]

Best work he ever did!

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[ironhorse]

They are surprisingly fabulous. I doubt that my my photos will deteriorate as artistically as his.

[Aryel]

Thanks for sharing this. Really love it.

I doubt mine will turn out as beautiful 😋

[Steve Ricoh]

7 hours ago, Aryel said:

Thanks for sharing this. Really love it.

I doubt mine will turn out as beautiful 😋

There is another less subtle approach, that being film ‘souping’. (I posted a thread on the subject but there were not many enthusiastic responses.)

I’m keen to try cooking the hell out of my colour film, the problem though I wouldn’t shoot enough to warrant the cost of the processing chemicals (it’s time limited once opened) and the lab I use wouldn’t be over the moon if it contaminated their process tanks.

[Aryel]

On 7/6/2021 at 5:58 PM, Steve Ricoh said:

There is another less subtle approach, that being film ‘souping’. (I posted a thread on the subject but there were not many enthusiastic responses.)

I’m keen to try cooking the hell out of my colour film, the problem though I wouldn’t shoot enough to warrant the cost of the processing chemicals (it’s time limited once opened) and the lab I use wouldn’t be over the moon if it contaminated their process tanks.

Do you know of anything comparable that could be tried on a b&w Darkroom print? I am not so keen on experimenting on the negatives... 

[Steve Ricoh]

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34 minutes ago, Aryel said:

Do you know of anything comparable that could be tried on a b&w Darkroom print? I am not so keen on experimenting on the negatives... 

There’s a photographer on Flickr who, from time to time, likes to “degrade” his negatives. I gather he develops B&W normally (but I’m going to try hot +30C in Rodinal) and after fixing etc inspects for candidate negs for further ‘treatment’. He takes the chosen neg(s) to the sink and gives them a good going over with household bleach (diluted) using a pot scouring pad (you may them similar at home, sponge one side, abrasive green surface on the other. Rinse, dry and Bob’s your uncle!

[Aryel]

15 hours ago, Steve Ricoh said:

There’s a photographer on Flickr who, from time to time, likes to “degrade” his negatives. I gather he develops B&W normally (but I’m going to try hot +30C in Rodinal) and after fixing etc inspects for candidate negs for further ‘treatment’. He takes the chosen neg(s) to the sink and gives them a good going over with household bleach (diluted) using a pot scouring pad (you may them similar at home, sponge one side, abrasive green surface on the other. Rinse, dry and Bob’s your uncle!

I will definitely keep this in mind and go through my negatives. Thanks a lot for sharing. If you try out, and do not mind, can you share some images?

Thinking of checking images that I decided not to print but still liked.

[250swb]

Amazing, almost too perfect to be true. I ran off to find my equally old transparencies but no luck, they are still like new.