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1 Broadway [Leica M3 | Summicron 50mm f2 | Kodak Portra 400] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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on a sunny day, a pair of figures walks past a fully-leaved tree toward a brutalist building in the distance

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Cool! Interesting how different the overall tone is compared to your Kodak Vision 3 500T shots. I've never actually shot on anything but Porta, but I should try some others cause I dig the vibe from your vision 3 photos you posted recently.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    thank you thank you.

    and to be completely honest, i actually can't see much of a difference between the two films. I'm not color blind, but either i have some issues recognizing colors, or i spend so much time color grading each shot that after a while i find it difficult to tell how it looks. like if you put two of my shots side by side, one 500T and one portra 400, i dont think I'd be able to tell you which is which lol

    i use darktable's negadoctor module to invert the negative, then do manual adjustments from there by eye. once im full into color fatigue territory and think it looks good, i export everything and upload to my immich server. then over the next few days i go back to admire them and find, huh, these have a pretty serious green/blue/red/whatever cast -- should probably fix that.

    so yeah my color work maybe could use some improvement, if only for consistency's sake. but i think im getting better!

    edit: actually, i can really tell the difference handling the negative. 500T is way thicker than portra. but otherwise its a crapshoot to my eyes

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's awesome you scan your own negatives. Something I've wanted to try but haven't because I don't have a nice digital camera. I just get back TIFFs from my lab and sometimes don't change anything, and if I do, it's pretty much just adjusting the tone curve before exporting to a more compact format. Doing all the color editing and stuff sounds pretty stressful to me though lol. Probably harder to perfect than shooting on film by itself.

    I think the vision 3 shots you have posted so far are a tiny bit more muted vs this porta shot, and have a bit of a pinkish "Etheral" vibe to them. If that makes any sense haha.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    thanks! yeah, im fortunate to have a good job that allows me to do the whole process of analog photography myself. I develop at home, too, to save some money. plus it allows me to have full control over everything.

    but now, Im going back looking at my most recent roll, and im thinking to myself...these are kind of dull. even this scan i posted here... im not sure, something is off about it. so ive gone back and looked at the histogram and my graphs arent pushing all the way to the right. I originally had wanted to retain some contrast, but im thinking its just making my images a little duller. so ive just increased the dmax value on most of the roll, which essentially sets the white point... im thinking this looks a bit better ... anyways, as you can see the tradeoff of doing things manually makes this a bit of a never ending process....

    (i also updated my cherry blossom post, if you're interested)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Brighter and punchy, for the cherry blossom one it brought out even more of that pinkish cast and I like it, looks good! I'd love to do my all my own lab work someday, when I have the time and some cash maybe I will! Its probably even cheaper long term since developing and getting scans is about the same price as the film itself for me.

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