#Expired Film

[4feet10in1sock]

[bedfordtowers]

[meolog]

Snow on the beach (expired film)

[thngsfrmthvd]

[ivy-moth]

[fezzian]

[omnichromesanfrancisco]

Downtown, San Francisco on expired fujifilm industrial 100

[onekindredspirit]

*The Road*

Expired Polaroid Duochrome

[suburbanscrimshaw]

Exposure failures

[socarchlithuania]

Palanga. 2024

[westonspharmacyphotodept]

Conceptual series -- Disposable Camera

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What if, during their first patrol together, Ellie and Dina found a disposable camera in a drawer at the radio station?

For those of you who’ve never experienced the joy of the disposable film camera, they are made of flimsy plastic and contain the cheapest consumer-grade film. They’re designed to take a single type of exposure, with a set shutter speed, aperture and focus, and the best shooting conditions are bright daylight.

Outside of the ideal shooting conditions, you need to activate the flash to yield a usable picture. Red eye is inevitable. The flash is also set to fire at a specific power, so standing either too close or too far from your subject means they’ll either be too bright or too dark.

It’s very difficult to get perfect conditions for every shot, so when you take the film for processing (to Weston’s Pharmacy, of course), the processing machine automatically tries to compensate for pictures that are too dark or too bright. The result is often an extremely crushed dynamic range, and a lot of grain. They look crappy, but that’s part of the fun.

After 25 years in a desk drawer, I like to think that not only would the film have degraded quite a bit, but the housing would have lost some integrity and sprung a leak. This camera has a very slight crack in the housing, which leaks light when the camera is taken out into the daylight.

Typically, there are 24 exposures in one of these cameras, so I have included all 24 pictures that Ellie and Dina took together, including the duds. Some of you may point out that disposable cameras didn’t produce a date stamp in the bottom corner — this is true, however I think it adds to the effect I was going for, and also since we know the canonic date that this patrol happened, I thought it would be a cool detail to include it.

I hope you enjoy!

(Original game photography from The Last Of Us Part II by @westonspharmacyphotodept, created with all manual post-production using no presets, templates, stock or AI).

[insects-in-every-hole]

[miamaimania]

Photography: 'Clouds Symphony' with Nikon F601 - Red-hued clouds drift in grainy darkness, capturing ethereal textures on expired film.

[dededos]

月桃腿腰腹 002/365

[omnichromehongkong]

New Territories, Hong Kong on expired Fujifilm Industrial 100

[fezzian]