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Special Techniques
Films for Unusual Effects

- Capturing Color Scenes in Dim Light
We can get wonderful and precise effects using fast color film in dim light, which sometimes leads to long stops. High-speed color films give excellent images, whether they are positive images or drawn on paper, but they have the special characteristics of very fast black and white films: graininess, for example. This picture was taken on fast color film in dim light. The image has soft tones, while the graininess gives it an antique atmosphere.
Leicaflex 1/60 sec. Aperture 5.6 Insuchrome 500 Azar

- Composite image
This composite image was formed by superimposing three positive color images by exposure. Two were made on infrared film and the third on (daylight) film. The figures were photographed on infrared film and coloured filters were used during the projection (to give an unusual effect) while the window was photographed on ordinary film. The three films were then superimposed in the projection (see page 158). With special films the range of colour tones is unlimited by using artificial light film in daylight or vice versa with coloured filters to enhance or modify the effects. The projection can be changed by stacking the projection crystals or by projecting them through filters.

- Effects of chromatic aberration
Objective lenses made of a single glass lens do not collect in the focus the different colored radiations of white light on one surface, which produces an unusual effect whether in black and white or in color. This is the chromatic aberration that we correct, combining two glass lenses made of different glass. This is because radiations with different wavelengths do not refract in the glass according to the same angle. Thus, if the blue color is clear, the red color is not clear. Chromatic aberration softens the color tones and borders and sharpens the strong lights, which gives an impressionistic effect. This picture was taken with an old camera whose lens is made of a single glass lens. If the picture was in black and white, it would give the impression of a blurred picture only. Onsen Full-Fu Machine (1939) Speed ​​possibility
1/125 sec aperture set on (covered sky) Ektachrom EX

- Color aberration and distortion
To create this artificial color image I used a color television camera that analyzed a classic positive image. By processing the different calibres of the camera I obtained these effects which I re-photographed on the television set.

- Artificial light film with daylight:
In this case you get a dominant blue color. After a one-second pause the film was reeled with the shutter still open: this resulted in these clouds in the strong lights. I showed this image in reverse to give it a more dramatic scene.
Hasselblad 1 sec aperture 8 Ektachrom EHB

- Choosing a dominant color to create atmosphere
The right image was taken at noon on daylight film and I applied an artificial haze by burning some wet moss. For the burning house in the opposite image I created the sunset with artificial light film and reduced the exposure. The flames come from burning kerosene. Fog: Hasselblad 1/250 sec 11 octachrome Dusk: 1/125 sec 16 octachrome EHB