Christian, There are three uses I have seen for Velvia. Two are fine and one is too much. When the colors are muted due to lighting or doing an unusual artsy thing, Velvia is fine. For normal shooting it is too much. As I looked through several PUG galleries I thought it interesting that I could pick out Velvia just from the thumbnails. Once in awhile I missed - usually to Agfa Ultra or Provia, but generally I could spot it easily. In this month's PUG Mark Cassino used Velvia in an unusual manner that is a bit surreal anyway, so the strong colors work alright. Ken Waller's landscape is well composed and I like the subject - however, the color is over the top and spoils the picture for me. The golden hills are too golden and the sky is too strong.
I will try to give you more examples as I run into them. Bruce Dayton Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 4:14:38 PM, you wrote: CS> I don't use Velvia at the track because it is soooooo slow! ;-) CS> I'll be using Provia for that. CS> The Canis flower is actually a very vivid orange. I think (with my funky CS> eyes) that Velvia gives very natural colors. Again, this is for the CS> subjects that I normally shoot and why I wanted to see some examples of CS> "bad" Velvia. Then again, maybe I'm weird..... CS> Christian CS> ----- Original Message ----- CS> From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CS> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CS> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:52 PM CS> Subject: Re: Velvia (was: Film ISO Speed Choices?) >> Hi Christian, >> >> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:31:53 -0500, Christian Skofteland wrote: >> >> > [...] is this over saturated or gaudy? >> > >> > http://photography.skofteland.net/flowers/canis.htm >> > http://photography.skofteland.net/insects/insect08.htm >> >> I don't know what the subjects look like in reality, but the flower >> definitely looks "overly vivid" to me. I think you would not want to >> use Velvia at the race track, where the colors on the cars are already >> pretty vibrant. I'm even doubtful about using Portra 400 VC instead of >> Portra 400 NC, but I think I'm going to shoot a roll or two to check it >> out. >> >> TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ >> - >> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . CS> - CS> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, CS> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to CS> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
