I went to another Impossible Project workshop on Saturday run by Thomas Wright. Unfortunately this one was not as well attended as some of the others. Don’t know if it’s because interest is waining or because the weather was so bad, it rained all day! It didn’t stop us wandering the streets of Spitalfields snapping all the colours of the local market and streets.

The latest colour stock from the Impossible Project is much more predictable and produces very good colour. Tom talked us through some of the techniques to get the best out of the film. We decided one of the best approaches is to set the exposure wheel of the camera towards darken. This gives more saturated colour and is less likely to blow the highlights. The film still needs to be shaded when ejected but we’re getting better at it with practice. The most critical thing with the colour film is to keep it warm. All the pictures you see were shielded immediately and then placed straight into a cold clip which I’d preheated in my jacket. Then it went back inside my jacket for three or four minutes.  The colour takes a while to come through but it’s worth the wait.