{"id":36317,"title":"Crumpling film before shooting – curious what you think [Nikon EM & Minolta X-500 - 35 mm]","author":"FLIV_VER","permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1pajw70/crumpling_film_before_shooting_curious_what_you/","description":"Hey folks,\n\nI’ve been messing around with a weird film experiment and wanted to share the results + get your thoughts.  \n  \nBasically, I pulled two rolls out of their canisters in complete darkness, crumpled the film strips, shoved them back into the canisters, and then shot normally.  \n  \nMy hope was that the wrinkles would create some kind of 3D depth effect — like sharp/soft areas caused by the physical bumps in the film.  \n  \nThat did not really happen.  \nInstead I got these wild, graphic streaks — kind of like accidental light painting, but baked right into the emulsion from the wrinkles.   \n  \nI tried a mix of stuff: typography, portraits, architecture, nature, random textures, just to see how the effect changes.\n\nWould love to hear from the community:  \n\\- Do the results look interesting or just chaotic?  \n\\- Any ideas on how to push this further?  \n\\- Or suggestions for subjects/techniques that might work well with this “crumpled film” approach?\n\nAlways appreciate feedback — thanks for having a look!","score":632,"nsfw":false,"grayscale":true,"timestamp":1764513762,"sprocket":false,"camera_make":"nikon","focal_length":35,"images":[{"resolution":"low","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/c20086be-a3ac-46ac-9f46-1de2142d9b26.jpeg","width":480,"height":720},{"resolution":"medium","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/051cf71f-f342-4c13-97fd-f26493ef5109.jpeg","width":720,"height":1080},{"resolution":"high","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/1d334399-ee2b-4332-aab7-503f6c4cbc86.jpeg","width":960,"height":1440},{"resolution":"raw","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/f865dd4c-2a38-4f97-b3f1-df34b9d48e4d.jpeg","width":2000,"height":3000}],"colors":[{"hex":"#a1a1a1","css":"darkgrey","html":"gray","percent":0.53947817},{"hex":"#101010","css":"black","html":"black","percent":0.31251598},{"hex":"#6c6c6c","css":"dimgray","html":"gray","percent":0.12524856},{"hex":"#ffffff","css":"white","html":"white","percent":0.01711147},{"hex":"#3b3b3b","css":"darkslategray","html":"gray","percent":0.00564583}],"keywords":[{"word":"x-500","weight":0.25},{"word":"em","weight":0.25},{"word":"nikon","weight":0.25},{"word":"minolta","weight":0.25}]}