Velvia Healey!

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Just got the developed Velvia back and I LOVE it. I must use this film more. I think it's the right film for this subject too. Contrasty and saturated. Let me know your thoughts.

Hasselblad 500c/m | 80mm | Velvia 50. Just a 645 crop to get rid of some bright sky and a light leak at the bottom where I opened the back by mistake on the next frame. :(

1962 Austin healey 3000 by GazMortonPhoto, on Flickr
 
Lemaildetom said:
Great picture! I haven't try velvia yet, the colour is stunning!
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Thank you. You should definitely shoot some. It's lovely.

steveo_mcg said:
Nice shot Gareth Velvia really suits it.
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Thank you. :)

XFile2708 said:
Lovely shot Gareth (y)
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Thank you. :)

nickjohnwatson said:
DOF is beautiful on that, what a lovely photo.

Almost looks like a toy :)
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Thanks Nick. :)

SlimShaney said:
Lovely shot :)
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Ta very much. :)
 
Wow lovely, the more I see film shots the more I want to try film out.

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Really lovely. The framing and crop are just right and the richness of colour from the Velvia is superb. Shows off the sheer quality of the 'blad lenses and MF film in general. Did you scan yourself or get it done when they were developed? I never managed to scan Velvia with any great success.
 
menthel said:
Really lovely. The framing and crop are just right and the richness of colour from the Velvia is superb. Shows off the sheer quality of the 'blad lenses and MF film in general. Did you scan yourself or get it done when they were developed? I never managed to scan Velvia with any great success.
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Thank you. :)

Developing was done by Peak Imaging and I scanned myself at home on the V550. I heard Velvia was tricky and even started a thread about it from my first roll, but this one seemed to work just fine.
 
gazmorton2000 said:
Thank you. :)

Developing was done by Peak Imaging and I scanned myself at home on the V550. I heard Velvia was tricky and even started a thread about it from my first roll, but this one seemed to work just fine.
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I ended up dumping colour film in the end because I just couldn't scan it! Looks like you have cracked it though.
 
Well, I'd say you've nailed that one in practically every way possible...
 
gazmorton2000 said:
Just got the developed Velvia back and I LOVE it. I must use this film more. I think it's the right film for this subject too. Contrasty and saturated. Let me know your thoughts.

Hasselblad 500c/m | 80mm | Velvia 50. Just a 645 crop to get rid of some bright sky and a light leak at the bottom where I opened the back by mistake on the next frame. :(

1962 Austin healey 3000 by GazMortonPhoto, on Flickr
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Velvia is beautiful, you ain't seen nothin till you've seen your first Velvia square.
I prefer 100F personally but if there's one thing I learned about shooting it, its not to meter the sky, I've lost count of the number of frames I've cocked up shooting a perfect sky and ending up with nothing else in the frame worth a fart.
Well done, slide is tight to meter but that looks great :)
 
Just to echo everyone else, it's a nice image, thats for sure, and well done on the whole Velvia thing...

Is it just me though that saw that picture and felt a twang of regret for the passing of Kodachrome... Nothing else seemed to render Red's in quite the same way :(
 
robhooley167 said:
Well, I'd say you've nailed that one in practically every way possible...
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Thank you very much. :)

joxby said:
Velvia is beautiful, you ain't seen nothin till you've seen your first Velvia square.
I prefer 100F personally but if there's one thing I learned about shooting it, its not to meter the sky, I've lost count of the number of frames I've cocked up shooting a perfect sky and ending up with nothing else in the frame worth a fart.
Well done, slide is tight to meter but that looks great :)
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Thanks for the info and the comment. :) I do like the results here from Velvia and I have a full box here to shoot.

Carl Hall said:
Holy moly, that's a great shot!
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Thanks very much. :)


TheBigYin said:
Just to echo everyone else, it's a nice image, thats for sure, and well done on the whole Velvia thing...

Is it just me though that saw that picture and felt a twang of regret for the passing of Kodachrome... Nothing else seemed to render Red's in quite the same way :(
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I never tried Kodachrome unfortunately. Came to the party a bit late and only discovered it when processing had ended for it. I have seen a book though, 'Hollywood in Kodachrome' and I very much see the appeal of it. :)
 
TheBigYin said:
Is it just me though that saw that picture and felt a twang of regret for the passing of Kodachrome... Nothing else seemed to render Red's in quite the same way :(
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Nope not just you, and when Velvia hits the buffers there won't be a stand out, just a malaise of functional, everything else is pretty anonymous on the slide scene.
There are 3 things that p1ss me off, the fact that slide will be discontinued, that kodachrome has been discontinued and 3rd and probably the clearest signal of manufacturer intention, the discontinuation of materials to print them.
 
gazmorton2000 said:
I never tried Kodachrome unfortunately. Came to the party a bit late and only discovered it when processing had ended for it. I have seen a book though, 'Hollywood in Kodachrome' and I very much see the appeal of it. :)
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I managed 3 rolls just before Dwaynes shut the line down, there really wasn't anything like it.

You wanna get down to Shorpy, have a look at some old time 5x4 Kodachromes

http://www.shorpy.com/Large_Format_Kodachromeshttp://www.shorpy.com/Large_Format_Kodachromes

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Lovely shot of a car I would give garage space to, although I'd probably go for wire wheels.

While Velvia does give great results for some shots, it can give some bloomin' 'orrible ones for others! The look of Velvia can be reproduced at the PP stage from the other tranny options but if you've shot a portrait on Velvia and want to get it back to something resembling normality, it takes a bit more work!

sep9001 said:
Wow lovely, the more I see film shots the more I want to try film out.

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An F80 or similar would be a good entry for you and would give you a decent wide angle (if your 35mm lens is an FX one.)
 
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