Velvia50
Been playing with a few different film stocks (when money and time permit)... a portraiture shooting mate suggested throwing in a roll of Velvia 50. Tried it out in a few different situations and to finish off the roll ended up shooting Alicia (ARIA) for laughs.
For those that care: shot with an early 80's Minolta XDs, 35-70mm f.3.5 manual focus lense and no.s 2 or 4 closeup filters.
This is what most of the shots turned out like...
...however this is the sort of happy accident I like film for. Same day, same time, but now a warm, sunny, summer's afternoon looks like a cold winter morning.
Though not entirely figure related, the other film I ran through the camera recently is Kodak's BW400CN, which has also been turning up pretty good results. Though it's a B/W film, it uses C41 colour processing...
...so if you scan it as a colour negative it comes out like this.
More black and white can be found on flikr (still need to find time to shoot more figures).
Nice! "Film" type cameras will always have their uses.. I love the 2nd. pic, beautiful shading there.
I shoot Velvia 100 in my Minolta cameras, from my XE-7, X-570 and the Maxxum 9000.
I not too impressed with B/W images, so I shoot in color. I have had terrible experiences with shoot slides and figures, I like yours how they just don't lose their color either.
I will always have my film cameras, just so easy to just to do.
I find B/W to be fun... I mostly use the film cameras for shooting around the city, and prefer B/W for that sort of thing. Shooting figures only really tends to happen when I need to finish off a roll. Slide film can be difficult too... I find it gives either really good or utterly attrocious results ^^;
Great to see someone using film - 50 ISO Velvia is pretty hardcore. I've only used the 100... The first pic is the best... Maybe the figure needs stronger lighting - slide film is very unforgiving as regards exposure. Often the way its scanned can make a lot of difference however. You could use a bitmap editor/paint program to touch out the dust - a common problem on film I have found!
All the shots were taken at the same time, just the later ones were taken facing almost directly into the sun. Seems to have had an odd effect on how the film handled colour (anyone able to explain this?). That's also why the focus is all over the place, the XDs uses a split-image focus and it kept blacking out so I was guessing. Personally I actually kinda like the atmospheric effect... but that's just me too :D
But yeah, slide film is finicky and difficult, but it also gives really nice results when you get it right. Honestly I'm not sure if I'll use the 50 again. Maybe if I specifically want to do a film figure shoot, but for general useage I still like black and white.
Ugh, yeah... the dust. Sometimes it's almost un-noticeable, and sometimes it's all over the place. Probs give it a shot with PS at some point.
Cheers mate.
wonderful pictures! you really couldn't have picked a better model than Alicia-san.