We recently had the honor of being groomsmen in our good friend Rory's wedding. So I brought our nice little Leica M mount rangefinder setup, with 4 rolls of 35mm Fuji 400H. Amy's mother is an amazing seamstress and made all of the dresses herself, out of raw silk (love) and scraps of lace from her own wedding dress! This was a beautiful DIY wedding, and I just couldn'd resist making some photos of this lovely couple's beautiful day. We love you Murphys!
Wow those are gorgeous! And such a high 'hit ratio' for only four rolls of film.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about what you're doing in post to get the look and the color…very high key for the most part, a little green-ish, lots of saturation but in a soft and non-garish way. That ain't just the film, surely!
Matt: Thank for your kind words! Funny, how when you have less film you choose to only pull the trigger when it counts. ;-) You cant hit officers with a machine gun, you need a sniper.
ReplyDeleteIt most definitely is film. Well, It helps to have kick ass glass, expose appropriately for your scanning (high key as you noted), and to scan with the worlds best scanner (Fuji Frontier). Other than color correcting and adjusting density while scanning, I spot dust, and maybe a slight shadow & mid-tone adjustment in Levels. No magical filter, batch or anything. Just fine scanning. It honestly takes more time sizing them for the web. :-)
Richard Photo Lab can get you these results, if you can communicate it to them. You just gotta dial it in.
dude, I really dig this pictures, amazing set guys!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the response, Brian! I've really been diving into your blog the past few days. it has me all a-flutter. :) As the admin for www.camerasandfilm.com you can guess I'm a like-minded individual (although I shoot mostly digital for Actual Paying Clients, and leave the film for fun). I just wrote a post about how the bigger the negative, the less you shoot, and the higher the yield ratio.
ReplyDeleteSo you're scanning these yourself, not using Richard Photo Lab right? I've had my lab scan film with nice results, and I've even used ScanCafe. Who do excellent work if you can wait a month. But scanning on my own has been less than perfect (but I can't justify the prices of having someone do it for me, since there's no client to foot the bill).
It's really a gorgeous look. I don't want to make it mine, but I want a 'look' as distinctive as yours with my film photography.
I'll check out Richard PL, thanks!
@Matt The big thing with getting good scans from film is #1 the equipment and #2 the operator. Make sure Richard scans your stuff on the Fuji Frontier! That's what we have. It produces the best color and highlight details of any machine out there. You can also send them some sample prints of how you like your images to look and they will try to match it. They can be your images or from Vanity Fair... Just be sure it's film! ;) Then you can keep an open dialogue with them and fine tune from there.
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