{"id":359,"date":"2009-03-16T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2009\/03\/16\/i-went-out-and-ran-a-roll-of-fuji-velvia\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:30:16","slug":"i-went-out-and-ran-a-roll-of-fuji-velvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"I went out and ran a roll of Fuji Velvia …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… and all I got were these lousy pics.<\/p>\n

Okay, seriously though this was a bizarre and fascinating experience. Someone in my online world recently posted a few pics taken with a Holga and some Fuji Velvia film. I’ve read several times about how Velvia has this astounding color and so I figured what the hell, I have a film body, I’ll go take some film shots.<\/p>\n

This isn’t anything I haven’t done before, except in times previous I was shooting C41 black and white, or real B&W, but never color film. I figured, “What’s the point? If I’m going to shoot in color, well, let’s make it digital color.” Well, the colors from someone else’s Velvia shots convinced me.<\/p>\n

The problem was that it’s very much a daylight film, so I had to find big bright sunny days on which to shoot. I definitely wanted blue sky days, because I know my Sigma 15-30mm lens has a bit of a vignetting “problem” when zoomed all the way wide, and that would only add to the richness of the skies. So yeah, I eventually abandoned my new 5D for a few days and shot only with the old crappy film Rebel that I have.<\/p>\n

I got the slides back a few days ago and it was an experience that bordered on magical. It seriously transcended anything that has ever happened to me with regards to photography. I got a sheet of 36 miniature pictures, all of them in plastic slides in one big sleeve, and all of them radiating gorgeous<\/B> color. I couldn’t begin to comprehend this one long sleeve of white squares with blues and oranges and reds and greens popping out everwhere as I held it up to the light.<\/p>\n

If you have never shot slide film I say to you right now get off your butt and go do it. It’s been a few days now and I’m still fascinated with and transfixed by these slides. They are amazing.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the scanner at my new photo place of choice didn’t capture the true vibrant nature of the colors. The scans all feel a little bit flat, not as lively as the physical slides themselves. Still, I wanted to present to you the pictures as they came out of my camera, not with any post-processing in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

So if you want to see more, here are the rest of the good ones from this roll<\/A>. 17 decent pics out of 36 exposures ain’t bad.
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