The inverted version of the shots

Ever since everyone started getting their Lomo'Instants and someone figured out that very over exposed Instax film created what was almost a negative image, these have popped up everywhere here.

I discovered this when I first got my first Instax when trying to do super close up images but I never really tried much more with it.

So I thought, "I'll show that this technique works for any Instax camera!" and I had a little fun doing it.

The technique is pretty simple, you want to take a photo that is heavily over exposed. The more over exposed the better. For some reason, due to how the Instax film works, if it gets enough over exposure, it creates what is essentially a negative image of your subject.

The reason this works so well with the close up lenses is because when you are that close to your subject, the flash will be overbearing and over expose the shot.

It can be done easily with any Instax camera, doesn't matter which kind. As long as you have a powerful enough flash or light to approximate somewhere around 4-10 stops of over exposure.

The shots in this album were shot using a Neo Classic and a Holga CUL that focuses at around 4.7". I then scanned and inverted the images and viola!

I do think the ones the Lomo'Instant creates look cooler because they are using the fun plastic goodness for a lens. But the technique is fun from any Instax camera.

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alienmeatsack
上載：
2014-11-29
標籤：
alienmeatsack close up lens cool cul face fujifilm fun glare holga instax me mini mini 90 mirror negative neo classic overexpose plastic reflection trick
相機：
Fuji Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic (Lomography 線上商店 有售)
菲林：
Fuji Instax Mini (Lomography 線上商店 有售)
城市：
Tulsa, OK
國家／地區：
United States
Year:
2014
Time:
night
相簿：
Instax Negatives Via Massive Overexposure (11-28-2014)

5 個留言

  1. alienmeatsack
    alienmeatsack ·

    I'm telling you, those Holga Close Up Lenses are great for such inexpensive plastic lenses. I just hold it against the camera in this shot, with it set to 2 stops over exposure plus the flash was on. The CUL blocks the sensor on the Neo Classic, which makes it think it's darker then it is, so it over exposes even more.

    To me this technique is what I would call "cross processing for instax". :D Because the resulting image looks very "Lomography" styled. Also note all I did with these scans is sharpen and invert the color curve with a straight line. I did no corrections to the color. I'd bet if you played a little, you could find a curve that would result in the perfect positive when inverted.

  2. mafiosa
    mafiosa ·

    Cool. I've been wanting to try this ever since I saw @schuggers overexposed "negative" istax shot. So far, I haven't had much luck achieving the negative look. I've managed to overexpose at about 20 seconds (on +2, and bulb) - but the shots just look white. Do I need to take it farther? 40 seconds? Or, have i taken it too far?

  3. alienmeatsack
    alienmeatsack ·

    @mafiosa, it sounds like you took it too far. There's a sweet spot in the middle between "that is a bright flash in that photo" to "inverted look" to "blown completely out". I can tell you this, when I have done the shots w my Neo Classic and Wide, it was click, whirrrrrr. So the shutter speed isn't super slow, so it's just a few stops over normal exposure. I guess 4-8 maybe at most. Maybe it's time to try this using another camera where I can control the entire shutter/aperture/flash and not worry about focus or content, just to figure outthe sweet spot.

  4. mafiosa
    mafiosa ·

    I was totally overthinking it. Just gave it another try with the basic settings and it worked out. Scanning now...
    Thanks
    :)

  5. alienmeatsack
    alienmeatsack ·

    @mafiosa, it's easy to over think and over do anything. I am really bad about doing that. Or I get so into it and trying to break it down into results I can replicate easily, I forget that it's fun first. :D

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