One of the salvaged photographs: the doors on our backyard shed

I got the last roll of film back that I shot with my old Kodak foldout, and unfortunately it appears that my bellows weren’t nearly as mended as I thought they were.  Out of the 8 frame roll, I got one shot that was relatively decent, and another that was, shall we say…barely recoverable.

One of the salvaged photographs: my sister and pet kinkajou

The former was a photograph of our backyard shed doors, and also the last frame on the roll, which probably had something to do with its survival.  The other was a photograph of my sister with our pet kinkajou, which has multiple overlapping rectangles of overexposure (presumably from pinpricks in the bellows letting light shine in) and the face so obscured by overexposure as to be unrecognizable.

Neither shot came out very well digitally, as I still have a lot of trouble trying to fully remove the orange mask from the scanned negative (when the negative colors are inverted, the orange becomes blue, which is what gives that irritating blue tint to the images).  Mixed with a camera that’s leaking light, the effect is…horrific.  Then again, I could probably get by with calling it artistic, if I wanted to.  What I know for sure, though, is that the next time I unfold that camera, I’m covering the bellows with gaffer tape, to see if I can finally get some properly exposed photographs out of it.