Filmwasters
Which Board? => Photo Essays => : Indofunk February 11, 2015, 07:25:48 PM
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Despite the fact that it's a lomo-hipster biz ploy, I redscaled some old, expired Fuji Superia 200 I got as part of a lot and loaded it up in my SRT102, set the meter at ASA25, and headed out for Central Park with my 28mm, 50mm, and 70-150mm. To make this slightly different from ... every ... other ... time ... I've shot Central Park ( :-[ ), I decided to go up the west side instead of the east side which I normally do.
I processed these in Lightroom as I normally process color film ... I scan it with no correction (not even to counteract the orange mask) and then use the LR white balance selector to pick a black area of the photo. That normally gets me really close to a "correct" color palate, and I can do minor color correction from there. In this case I did no further color correction, and left whatever weird color-shifting was there. As roughly predicted by 02Pilot, the more underexposed the shot was (and consequently, the more I had to boost exposure in LR), the more red the picture came out. But I never did get anything even close to true color, the best I got was yellow or green. Guess you really gotta shoot it >4 stops to see a decently close color palate. Or maybe it's that this roll of film was stored in a desert for 15 years :P
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Oooohh, I like it. BTW, I've been stored in the desert for 17years and I'm getting kind of foggy and grainy too.
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Fantastic! Man, I have got to get to my redscaling!
I love the tunnel shot, the fountain, the tall contrasty tree...but I absolutely adore the globe and the bird.
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Great shots, the tunnel and globe are my favorites. I've never shot redscale but I'm surprised how much the red intensity varies from shot to shot on the same roll.
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Thank you! To be honest, my metering is inconsistent at best ... It's quite likely I overexposed the bird shot, as it was right into the sky, as well as some of the others. But I'm not in this game for consistency anyways :P
I am glad that the globe came out well. I had intended to get right up underneath it and closer to it to make the perspective even more dramatic, but they had caution-taped off the area closest to it, ostensibly because there was a little snow there. Wouldn't want a lawsuit, would we? ::)
Also, I am almost embarrassed at how much I like this 28mm lens... I kept having to make up reasons to take it off in favor of the 50!
Leonore - yes! Get thee to redscaling! :D
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Cool! I really like the vine covered structure, globe and fountain in the pond shots Satish.
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Cool! I really like the vine covered structure,
That's Baba Yaga's hut :)
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Cool! I really like the vine covered structure,
That's Baba Yaga's hut :)
Where are the chicken legs then?? Seriously, when we adopted our youngest, we spent months convincing him that Baba Yaga was still back in Russia and didn't follow us to San Diego. Ten years later, I think he still worries a little. ;)
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It's sitting down! You can't see a chicken's legs when it's sitting either ;)