Good soup
I’m currently house-sitting for my sister and instead of packing things I may need for the week like…food, or weather appropriate clothing…I ended up lugging three cameras with me in an attempt to try and use up some of the film I have been hoarding in my fridge.
My main priority was to try out the souped Pink Lady 35mm I purchased from https://kalimcmillan.bigcartel.com/ as I had a feeling it was going to give me the effect I was looking for (and didn’t quite get) from the dubblefilm Bubblegum film I shot the other week.
I have to say it did not disappoint.
This is my first time trying out a souped film and as it has been soaked in goodness knows what, it can’t be processed by a lot of labs as it will potentially mess up the chemistry.
I found that Photo Hippo (https://www.photohippo.co.uk/) in Burnley offer souped processing for an extra £2, also they processed and scanned this roll super fast for me.
I shot the roll on my old Chinon CM-4S that I actually don’t think I’ve used since about 2020. I thought it might be the best plan as it’s fully mechanical and I wasn’t sure how my Canon 300 would enjoy loading the slightly rusty film canister. I used the cameras very sophisticated built in light metering system (lol) where there are three lights that show red or green for under/over or ‘correct’ exposure.
So anyway, the results!
First up we have a couple of images I took outside in bright-ish sunlight….and I’m enjoying the lomo look of the tones (oh look, another photo of that blooming phone box .
I was shooting this as recommended at 200 ISO, so outside was perfect, this is how it handled lower lighting indoors.
As one of the few items of clothing I had actually brought with me on this trip was a Scream t-shirt (1995 OG - the less said about Spyglass productions and their recent decisions the better) I grabbed a kitchen knife, set up a tripod and shot some self portraits with late afternoon window light against my sisters pink bedroom wall.
I really liked the way the pinks came out…and happy I got a few wee green splotches on the emulsion too.
I think I’d like to try souping my own film soon, but as these pinks were just what I was hoping for, I’ve already purchased another roll of Pink Lady before the batch sells out!
