First shot, not thrown away

I always like trying to make something out of nothing. Or out of very little.

This was the first shot on a roll of Fuji 800 film of unknown vintage, but perhaps a couple of decades old, given to me last month by a friend who gave up on film 25 years ago. It was taken in my light-leaky Olympus Pen D3 and developed by a send-em-away service at a local drugstore. In cutting the negatives, they cut through this first image; thus the jagged scar down the right side.

The drugstore service doesn't include scanning. In scanning them, I accidentally put the smaller piece in the tray both flipped and upside down. The incomplete sprocket hole is from a similar difference between the two scans.

Even though it *was* just a throw-away shot taken while winding the film on, I thought I'd try to reconstruct it. I had to flip and rotate the smaller scanned image to pull it in next to the bigger part. It worked fairly well. But the light-leaky colours were altogether weird, so I converted them to b&w (using a green filter for best detail). And thus this.