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How to Destress Film or How to Not Store Your Film

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How to Destress Film or How to Not Store Your Film

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A few years ago, I saw an article on water-damaged film that claimed the damage was due to bacteria and fungus eating the film. Having a bit of experience with fungus and bacteria from various scientific projects over the years, I thought I would explore this topic. Could I speed up the process? I also wanted to know which film aged the fastest, and was bacteria or fungus really responsible for the damage?

After performing a number of experiments to try to get fungus or bacteria to grow on a selection of film in an incubator, I was able to conclude that neither fungus nor bacteria are responsible for the aging effects seen in improperly stored film. The effects of heat and water acting alone are responsible for some interesting patterns. This process is easy to reproduce and takes about a week.

How to Do It

Place the selected slides in a rack with enough water to cover the bottom, but do not submerse any part of the image on the slides. Seal in an air-tight food container and leave at 90F (32 C) for 7 days. Sealed in the container the humidity will be kept at 100%. An incubator was used to keep a constant temperature and not cycled.

Check the images every day to see how they are aging. When the desired results are achieved, let the slides dry out. It is hard to gauge the full effect of the change to the slide when the slide is still wet. Let the slide dry off to see the full color, keep the film in the incubator checking it every day until the desired pattern is achieved.

To digitize the slides, I photographed them in a slide duplicator with a 105mm macro lens on a Canon 5D Mark III. This was substantially faster than scanning the slides.

The following images are the results of this process.

Conclusions

Slides that have large dark areas tend to turn out interesting, as do slides with lots of different areas of bright colors.

Kodachrome creates a dripping/melting pattern and tends to lose contrast.

Ektachrome slides degraded quite nicely, with a dripping,/wrinkle effect.

Ektachrome from 2001 behaved differently than the slides shot in 1991. It appears that Kodak improved the formula since the Ecktachrome from 2001 appears to be more stable in harsh conditions that the earlier samples.

Each frame was a surprise on how it would respond to this aging process.

Recommendation

If you want to keep your slides in good condition, do not store them in high humidity or high temperatures.

The results show that if you are wondering what to do with your old slides that are of questionable value, why not try the distressed look?

If you decide to give this a try, I would be interested to hear about your results.

A few more images from this study are below:
About the author: Ted Kinsman is the 2019 recipient of the Schmidt Laureate or outstanding contributions to the progress of biocommunications. Kinsman has worked as an optical engineer, a physicist, and a physics instructor before joining the Photographic Sciences Dept. at RIT. He is one of the few active high-speed photographers able to photograph at times less than 1/1,000,000th of a second. Recently, Kinsman's work has expanded to the x-ray region of the spectrum where he continues to explore imagery for books and magazines. His work has appeared on The Discovery Channel, Crime Scene Investigations (CSI), The X-Files, South Park, The Tyra Banks Show, and The Frozen Planet series. Kinsman is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) where he teaches Photographic Instrumentation, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and High-Speed Imaging. His most recent book is Cannabis: Marijuana under the microscope.

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How to Age Film for a Distressed Look, or: How NOT to Store Your Film

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A few years ago, I saw an article on water-damaged film that claimed the damage was due to bacteria and fungus eating the film. Having a bit of experience with fungus and bacteria from various scientific projects over the years, I thought I would explore this topic. Could I speed up the process?

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We rounded up some amazing film photographers to share their favorite film soup recipes and tips!

If you're looking for a little creative boost to your film photography, film soup might be just the thing. It's an experimental film photography technique where you soak a roll of film in different liquids to add fun, crazy colors and effects to your film negatives.

If you're brand new to the process, you can check out a step-by-step tutorial answering all of your film soup questions here.

Scroll down to check out seven must-try film soup recipes, some useful tips, and plenty of inspiring images from a few of our favorite film soup shooters!
From Stephanie Brian | stephaniebryanphoto.com | @stephaniebryan

Red Kool-Aid (find on Amazon)

Juice of half a lemon

A few squirts of dish soap

Recipe 1: Red Kool-Aid, Lemon Juice, & Dish Soap

Mix together in boiling water. Let film sit in "soup" for at least 24 hours but up to a week. Rinse film in cold water and let dry for at least a week before developing.

Souping film is such a fun and unique process, and I absolutely love that you never know what you are going to get. When you soup film, the PROCESS of shooting, souping, and developing becomes more than the end result.
From Bryan Lovett | @thebryanlovett

2 Bags of Chamomile Citrus Tea (find on Amazon)

Approximately 1 Tsp of Real Lemon Juice

It's not just about picking my camera up and composing a perfect image. It's not the anticipation of a final image. Nope. It's the process. The procedure. It's the way photography should be.

Recipe 2: Chamomile Citrus Tea & Lemon Juice

Add tea and lemon to one cup of boiling water. Add film canisters! Cap container and let the film "steep" for 4-6 hours, stirring every 20 min for the first 2 hours. 1 minute cold water rinse after removing film from soak. Then, dry for one week in a container with gel-silica.

I enjoy this recipe for it's subtlety. Having run the full gamut of mega-destructive soup recipes in the past, I've appreciated the flowing pastel colors this soup adds to the film.

I also do most of my soaking post-shooting to prevent damage inside the camera from sticky film and also so I can try to cater the soup towards what I ended up shooting.
From Ruby Robida | @rubyrobida

Boiling Water

Hand Soap

Salt

From: Elzi Boba | @_elziboba_

Blood Orange Lemonade (Great for drinking and film souping!)

Silica Gel (find on Amazon) - Remove the silica from the packets. It doesn't dissolve but will reacts with the film. You can also reuse it for other experiments.

The best part of film soup is that there are no rules! I've done everything from pickle juice to champagne to a cycle through the dishwasher.

Each has it's strengths and potential flaws, but if you're willing to take the risk, the reward can be some truly otherworldly effects produced by a lot of chance and a little faith.

Recipe 3: Hand Soap & Salt

This film soup recipe and the ingredients are my favorite! When I use them I always get different results, but always very interesting! Blue color and pink are popping out, and sometimes I get this quite cool dotted pattern.
From Tyler Rice | @Soaked_Film | @Tyler_Rice
Recipe 4: Blood Orange Lemonade & Silica Gel

Mix the blood orange lemonade, silica gel, and film of your choice with water. Soak for 4 hours or more. Don't forget to mix it well from time-to-time. Wash film in cold water after souping, and leave it to dry for 1-2 weeks on a shelf.

Depending on how long you soak the film (the longer, the better the results), results vary from water stains spreading throughout the picture, color changes and shifts, and sometimes blue/purple dots.

I tend to dilute everything that is very chemically active in hot water - mainly detergent (household chemicals), soap, orange juice, and tea (that's how you make tea, right, with hot water 😉 ).

I mainly soup after I finished shooting the roll to not damage the camera. It is also easier for me to decide to soup or not to soup after shooting (if you are in the mood to soup and ready to feel like a mad scientist).
From Julie Guertin | @julieguertin

Recipe 5: Pepto Bismol & Soda

Here's a roll of film I soaked in Pepto Bismol and soda. I usually like to shoot through the rolls first, then soak it for 24 hours or more.
From Carlos Baselga | @cralisare

If you choose to soak your roll before you expose it, you have a higher chance of messing up your film camera or having the film stick to itself in the camera.

The longer the film is soaked, the more it will take effect on the colors and overall look. I always wash my film in clean water several times to get as much off before I develop.

I love the look of Pepto Bismol because it usually leaves a pink or blue streak or color. It can also add fun random textures.

It's a ton of fun to soak films in random house products. It's something every film photographer should try at least once!

Recipe 6: Lemon Juice & Bath Salts

Results always vary a lot with film soup. Lighting, metering, scanning, film stock used, background... they all have an impact on the final images. So, it's hard to aim for a specific look.

Film soup images can be easily overwhelming. Keep your composition simple if you want your film soup to shine.

Recipe 7: Blueberries & Lemon Juice

I like how this mix reacts to film and generates green tiny dots on top of the emulsion, and the blueberries gives it a magenta tone on the background. I always try to use Fuji C200 film as it has green dominant color.

Tip: You must overexpose at least 1 stop to get great results. Film soup's technique destroys the light sensitivity of the film.

We can't thank all of these amazing photographers enough for sharing their film soup recipes and secrets with us!

Leave your film soup questions below in the comments! You can check out our film soup tutorial here, and also check out all of our other film soup related articles!

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