This is not, of course a missile taking off with me burnng up in the exhaust. Rather, it a full-size Cold War missile that stands in front of the Air Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (a state full of missile and radar sites).
Taken with homemade pinhole (made from empty iPhone 3GS box) and Fuji Acros 100 120 film, developed in Caffenol (8-5-1 in 500ml). There was an ever so slight coffee cast on the underdeveloped negative, but I toned it in Lightroom 3. This is a truly bizarre image. Underexposed/underdeveloped and seemingly fog with the coffee developer. I can’t make out the negative well enough to see what was going on with the flare on the edges — I think it happened while scanning the thin negative. I decided to go with it since it looked like it was blasting off. I applied a graduated orange-yellow mask to the flare from the bottom to about half way up. Originally the flaring reached the top, but I applied a dark mask from the top to about 1/3 down so that the top would look more like distant outer space. Or something like that….
