My major surprise throughout this discovery process about the film look had to do with the pictures in this blog. I wanted to test landscapes shots with Fujichrome Provia 100F, even though it was an expired film, I had read so much about positive film, about the fine grain, and about the color renditions, I went through the job before hand of acquiring a used wide to medium telephoto lens for my Nikon F100 to ensure sharpness, basically the Nikkor 24-85mm 3.5-5.6.
I have said before, film is unforgiving, you either expose it right, or your picture suffers. In these couple of rolls, I could say I suffered a lot, but for those photos that came out right… oh my dear God, they are gorgeous. In the previous blog, a reader rightly commented that all that look thing has to do with film giving a soul to the pictures, a sense of an organic presence, that you can quite catch it, but yet able to witness it. Indeed, in my humble opinion, that shows in many of these pictures.
The film being expired had to be adjusted a bit in Lightroom, just a touch in the temperature of the color, and a bit of calibrating the exposure and highlights, and the results for an amateur like me are very promising. Some pictures were taken at sunrise, some others at sunset, and a few more are just simple abstract lines, so beautifully reproduced I could almost cry.
There is something about the look of film. Probably, you could get something very similar and awesome using digital, but for an image to make you take a pause and wonder, that's something you could expect from film. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
