I took this photo of my friend Melissa during my birthday revelry in 2011. Another photo in my Turn on the Bright Lights series that's inspired by Interpol's first full length album of the same name.
Taken on a Holga, the red color in this photo came by way of a gel filter that's built into the camera's flash unit. It also has other colors like yellow and blue.
This particular photo has more of a heavy red compared to other photos in the series because of the slide film I used. Slide film, or positive film, is more or less a transparent image. In film's heyday, photographic slides were placed in specially made projectors (which were called slide projectors amazingly enough) where a light bulb would shine it's light on any given slide and thusly would be projected onto a screen. The photos were "as is," compared to color negative film which produced film negatives. In terms of film, you've probably seen film negatives more so than you did slides. They were cheaper to buy and develop. I digress, but if you use a flash, slide film will take in and saturate/fill a photograph with highlights more so than color negative film. So if you use an artificial color source over the flash, such as the color red, the resulting photograph will just be full on red, like holding a red, plastic looking...film.
I have so many small projects and series on my plate it's not even funny. I have yet to set a deadline for completion on this project. When I feel I have nothing left to add to it is when it'll be done.
"Bright Lights on Melissa" / 6x6 medium format Fuji Astia 100F / December 2011