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Position:Home>Visual Arts> How to get pictures like this with a film camera?Question: How to get pictures like this with a film camera!? heres an example:
http://flickr!.com/photos/greg_slater/247!.!.!. http://flickr!.com/photos/greg_slater/247!.!.!. He uses a Canon A-1!. I have one too, but i am very new to film!. How would i go about to get photos with those colors!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If the negative reflects these colors, and they are not due to poor scanning/digital color management, it would be my guess that the photographer either was shooting Tungsten Balanced film (correct for this application) and also had a pale blue cc filter mounted or was shooting daylight balanced film, and used too strong a grade of blue cc filter to compensate for warm incandescent light sources ( indoor tungsten lights )!. Truth be told, many factors can contribute to odd color shifts in both slide and negative films!. For example an unexposed roll of film left in the glove box of your car may be subjected to wide temperature fluxuations resulting in an odd color shift!. Old film tends to lack color saturation, noteably in the red or warm spectrum, and also the length of time between exposure and development can create some subtle color shifts/image degradation!. Try different film emulsions to better familiarize yourself with their unique characteristics and strong points!. Kodak films tend to respond better to the warm end of the color spectrum, where as Fuji films really excel at capturing the green and blues of foliage and landscapes!. Typically at sunrise/sunset I have a roll of Kodak E100VS loaded, as the early light is golden in color!. Alternately if I am photographing a waterfall in deep woods, I'll be shooting the Velvia or Provia films from Fuji for their ability to capture the saturated greens of moss and other flora/fauna!. G'Luck, and Keep Shooting !!!Www@QuestionHome@Com I suspect he is using inside slide film in outdoor lighting!. Many of his pictures have a pronounced blue cast!. It is likely a British product because of the highly saturated reds!. I can not be sure though and I hope he responds to the question you asked him about it!. He might also have been playing with some filters!. I noticed that in some of his other pictures the lens and filter effects are exaggerated!. It is also possible to push colours selectively in the darkroom by filtering the light you use to develop the negatives or the prints!. I am curious about how he did it too!. -------------- This one makes me think of gel filters http://flickr!.com/photos/greg_slater/248!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I would say that he is using slide film (daylight) and a filter for inside light in the train station and another filter for the background color in the outside scene!. basically you find that stuff out by playing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com If these pictures are untouched, you would need special film!. The same effect would be relatively trivial to accomplish in a program like photoshop, however!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Maybe from using different filters, or different kinds of film, or quite possible colours edited in Photoshop or something like that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com This looks to me like cross processing; using e6 film developed in c41 or vice versa!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |