This week has been pretty productive film shooting wise. I managed to shoot my roll for Expired film day and also shot another 2 rolls on top spread over the week. As we have had a couple of bright…
Source: Week 12 – Sunday stroll with the Bronica & some Vericolor III
Last week, well March 15th to be precise was Expired film day where photographers were encouraged to shoot a roll of expired film, the older the better and post up and possibly win some prizes.
http://schneidan.com/expired-film-day/
My chosen film was a roll of Fuji NPS160 that expired back in 1999 and I shot it with my trusty Mamiya 645 and 80mm f2.8.
I rushed home from work hoping to catch the last rays of sun down Porthcawl Beach which we managed to do.
I wasn’t sure how the colours were going to look like as NPS is more a portrait film with muted colours. With it being expired I shot it at iso 50 and told Film Dev that I pushed the film and if the could hopefully get something in the scanning for me.
When I downloaded the scans I was very happy with the results, the colours were just what I was after and captured the mood of the early evening at the beach.
I still have another 5 rolls of this film in my fridge and can’t wait to shoot some more weather allowing 🙂
Thanks for looking.
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We paid a visit to Amy last week in Aberystwyth and just for a change we had a lovely bright day.
The last few trips to “Aber” have been wet and dark so it lends itself to some grainy B&W images but for a change I loaded the F100 with some Kodak Portra 400 and shot it 2 stops over.
I must admit I love the way Portra looks when pushed especially when shooting portraits and along with the 50mm f1.4 wide open the film really makes the image pop.
I really need to start shooting more portraits, I have to pull my finger out and make a point of getting some willing subjects ( its like pulling teeth getting my family to pose for me)
All in all it was a good day out albeit a bit cold but it was nice to shoot in sunshine for a change.
As usual the film was processed and scanned by http://www.filmdev.co.uk/ who did a great job, I can’t recommend them more highly.
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comments welcomed…. and if anyone local is up for some portrait shots drop me an email 🙂
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We had a little break in the weather here in the week (still cold and rainy) so it was time for a little visit to Porthcawl seafront.
I love shooting the Mamiya C330 so after the B&W last week I loaded it with some expired Kodak Portra 160VC which I rated at 320 iso.
I had the film Processed/Scanned/Colour Corrected by http://www.filmdev.co.uk/ who also pushed it by one stop approx when processing. They do such a good job for a very reasonable price.
I have tried processing my own C-41 at home but I have never got consistent results and the same goes for scanning colour negatives.
Film-Dev do all the hard work for me and I know that the images I get back are going to be correct (unless I make a mistake taking them).
I love the subtle colours I got, not as vivid as I was expecting…
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