Finishing My Second Bottle of Kodak HC110

I finished my 1st 1lt bottle of Kodak HC110 in February 2016. Today 30th May 2017 I've finished my 2nd 1lt bottle of Kodak HC110. Its not a huge deal, but again I find it exciting. Also while Im looking at the quality of processed negatives from back then and now, I can see that I've improved ever since graduating from London College of Fashion and also I developed a very good and efficient home processing Black and White film with Kodak HC110. 

*I know the bottle looks not finished there, this photo was taken 3 weeks ago or so, the bottle finished today! I just added this cool aftermath of film processing marathon photo for demonstration purpose. Also nobody likes blogposts without photos/visuals, humans got lazier >=/  They want pictures and graphs and videos over reading posts and etc .  .  .
P.s. It took me two days to finish, dry, cut, and file those negatives and another 3 days to scan them all.

Recovering Negatives From Fuji FP100c Peel Apart Polaroid Film

OK! I must admit, this is due to my laziness that I am making a very late blog-post about this. 

While I was still in London College of Fashion, studying BA Fashion Styling and Photography(majoring in photography), I heard about the technicians and sometimes the tutors telling us this recovery method in order to get unusual effects on our photographs. Many of my class mates shied away from this method finding it complicated and many others just shot digital or stick with film but not polaroid. I in the other hand and perhaps two more class mates of that time, wasn't interested in this process because we wanted more colour accurate results, and thus nobody did this resulting a class of 60 Fashion photography students not seeing process or result of this method. 

But today I'm here to change that!

I came across a blog post about this recovery process while I was searching the web for the most affordable Fuji FP 100C since you can find them from £22 to £12. After carefully reading it from several blogs I decided to add my own input. 

For starters, you will need a camera which is capable of taking peel apart polaroid film. In my case I used my Mamiya RZ67 Pro II with Polaroid back! 

So I asked my friend Lolo to take a photo of me! It was bit hard for her to focus under the influence of alcohol but I think she got close enough (no complains).

Shoot me like "Terry"

Going Bonkers

After Full day of beauty shoot we (makeup artist, model and I) decided to Drink and Smoke Sisha, During that time I had a Camera and a Flash + Small softbox.
Model asked me to take photos like "Terry" I sad OK but I lit it different way and yet get similar photos. This is the outcome . . .

Influence: Alcohol + FreeTime + Youth 

Totally random art-direction, in this diptych we didn't think of any story, influence, inspiration, or anything else but yet one can always look up on the photographs and make up a story.

Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70

Photographer: Bruce (Me)

Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Dasha

If Angels CRY

Fashion Photography Beauty Test Shoot

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Makeup Artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka
Model: Stephanie
Assistant: Anup K Pandey

Camera: Mamiya RZ67 ProII + 127mm 

Film: Kodak Portra 160 ISO 

This photo was taken with Mamiya RZ67 ProII to compare with the digital for testing the differences/similarities.

Pink

Fashion Photography - Beauty Shoot - Pink 

Camera: Nikon D700 + 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bruce (ME)
Hair & Makeup: Alice Bizarre
Model: Gina

Frustrated (test)

Fashion Photography - Beauty shoot
Here is a photo that I'll be printing large soon (7hours from this post time)

Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Hair and Makeup: Alice Bizarre
Model: Dasha

Killer RED

Fashion photography - Test Beauty shoot 

Brace your self beauty shoots are coming. 

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200 VR II 

Photographer: Bugra ERGIL (Bruce)
Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Ekaterina
Assistant: Anup K Pandey

On this photo I'll actually explain it how I lit it.

2 strobes (SB900 units)
1 softbox - Key light Above her (light meter reading is f11)
1 octobox - Fill light infront of her looking from up to down 45° (light meter reading is f8)
+ silver reflector on her lap

Fashion Photography - Beauty Shoot

Snak peek of my current project. 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Stephanie
Assistant: Anup K Pandey

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200 VR II

Here is a Photo, of the project I always Wanted to do.
Out of every type of photography beauty photography is my favorite, then comes Diptych and after that is the editorial.

There are four more shoots scheduled ahead that means four different models and 8 different looks.

Not a Celebrity

Model: Liza Veroni

Behind the camera of "Not a Celebrity" shoot. 

This is what I call a home studio, when I turn my living room in to a medium format studio. (fun thing to do but not fun when you have to clean it up after)

Equipment I use in home studio: Kenro portable backdrop support, 800W Red Head Kit x2, 3x6 M black sheet as backdrop and also Multiblitz location flash kit which I didn't use in the photo above. 

The Drama Queen.

Photographer: Bugra Ergil(Bruce) 

Model: Lets call her DramaQueen  :) 

Camera: Nikon D2X

Lens:Nikkor 17-55mm 

ISO:200

Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/3.5

Lighting: 2 Red Head (continues light 800W) from 0° and 180°