#Film Photography - Colour Study

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ashen bay
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green things as usual

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Photos from my latest rolls of film, a trip down to some of the coastal areas of Sydney

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Since it was a colour study I had to pick a film that I'd focus on, my choice was Portra 400 since I have an abundance of it at the moment, I've always found that Portra 400 has leant towards a green/blue tone naturally so I had to give it a shot where I gave it absurd amounts of blue

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My photos always tends to lean towards the warmer tones since that's just how I like my photos, also I almost always overexpose by a half stop or a full stop which gives it that blown highlights look

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Didn't use my CineBloom filter as usual since I wanted a clear photo of exactly how the colours would respond to blue in different lighting conditions

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Pretty happy with it overall, probably should do another colour study soon since it helps me choose a subject quicker

restive crown
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These are all amazing!
When you do a colour study in pink/red I might steal one for wallpaper purposes

ashen bay
hybrid pivot
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all of them are so wallpaper worthy

ashen bay
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I'm glad you think so nice

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I'm still trying to develop a style

hybrid pivot
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can i yoinky doink one of them?

ashen bay
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fo sho my brother

hybrid pivot
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thanks guac 😎

restive crown
restive crown
ashen bay
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I think everything else in my library is green 💀

restive crown
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I can wait

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Just when you happen to do it ^^

ashen bay
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yeah I'll be doing a red colour study soon when I head up to this cool garden

restive crown
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For now my wallpaper of cherry blossoms with snow

ashen bay
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I can't find any cherry blossoms near me

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I think there's a few in canberra

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that's a 3 hour drive to get there so no thanks

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i'll take the flight to japan instead

restive crown
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If you go back on my insta you can see my campus. Cherry blossoms every year

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And my village also has some, but this year I couldn’t take any good pics because of the snow

ashen bay
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I think there might be cherry blossoms near me, but I have no idea

hybrid pivot
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This is freaking fire

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ashen bay
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😎

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nice makes me feel good tbh

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i should really post more on instagram but i get lazy

strange python
ashen bay
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yeah you can have it, i don’t even like portra 😭

strange python
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What don't you like about it?

ashen bay
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30(?) give or take

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Portra 400 is great for taking portraits obviously, literally in the name portra

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but I don’t really take portraits at all

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so there’s other film stocks that’s more suitable to my type of photography

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like I’ve used portra for portraits and they’ve came out how I’ve wanted

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and i appreciate the film for that

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but generally I find it too much of a crutch or that its tone doesn’t match my style of photography

strange python
strange python
ashen bay
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editing is a hit or miss with film

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some people like it some people despise it

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i’m in the middle where i fix up sharpness, white balance and tone balances

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so aside from that

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different stocks give you different results

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meaning not all edits are the same

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if i get a natural warm tone from ektar

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i’m not getting the same natural warm tone w digital processing afterwards

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and more to the point, why shoot film if you’re just gonna edit it anyways

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just chuck a film grain on top of your digital photo

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and you’ll get what you want

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AAAAAND to add it on top

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i shoot low speed or high speed film preferably

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so portra 160 or 800 and 800 pushed 1 stop is fine

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400 just doesn’t suit my needs

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and that is why i don’t like portra 400

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i still use it

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but it’s not my go to

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my go to is always ektar 100

strange python
strange python
ashen bay
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it hasn’t always been edited

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most film photogs I know and myself included prefer not to edit our film

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i dunno rather use my skills as a photographer

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than to edit in post

strange python
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Darkroom, burning dodging, different chemicals in development or printing, different RGB values, different paper than the same as film stock

ashen bay
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yeah but again that’s not the same as digitally altering your photo

strange python
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Film photography classes even had students scan and use photoshop as well once that became more accessible. The show just the inverted scanned image is more or less since the resurgence of film

ashen bay
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ion know u shoot the way you shoot

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i shoot the way i shoot

strange python
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Editing is anything in post, hell even inverting is editing since you can get different results for various inversion methods

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Low key think it's popular cause people are lazy, I say this as a person who is also super lazy

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The fuji presets are so good I honestly just use those and add a vignette now.

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🔫😔 now give me ur ektar

ashen bay
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i dunno i just mix it up depending on what nlp suggests

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like sometimes using a fuji inversion on ektar gives u a nice colour shift

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but no ektar is life

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i have some fuji pro 400h to go through still

strange python
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I wanted to do color film, but the cost is too much for me, I just roll BW. I am glad I never got into medium format

strange python
ashen bay
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before and after

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i have non expired rolls still

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gave some of my older ones to my mates

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so i got maybe 3-4 35mm rolls

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and 8 or 9 120mm rolls

strange python
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Daaamn

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Like 1/5 the way to a Leica in just 400H

ashen bay
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💀

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trading stocks but in film

ashen bay
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we out here w some velvia

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can’t believe they banned it in the US