I am continuing putting up some pages shot in various film stock to show the differences between each. Today it is Fujicolor Velvia 50. I find this to be one of the most difficult of all positive film stocks to use - it is very saturated and also very marked in contrast. It really is not suited to bright sunlight and deep shadows. Get it right though, and it can be magical. It is the fin sets grain of all films I have ever used and thus can often be blown up to giant sizes and still look good. It works best on landscape subjects and can really make even the most boring scene “pop”… Let me know what you think.
Garlic drying. Lei Yue Mun in Hong Kong. Shot on a Hasselblad 500CM.
Bicycle at Lei Yue Mun, Hong Kong. Shot on a Mamiya 645 Pro TL.
Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Shot on a Canon EOS 1V.
More Angkor Wat - this time converted to B&W. Shot on a Canon EOS 1V.
Palermo, Sicily. Shot on a Canon EOS 1V,
Stonehenge, UK. Shot no a Hasselblad XPAN.
Fishing boats, Beer, Devon, UK. Hasselblad XPAN.
Hartfield House, Oxford, UK. Hasselblad XPAN.
Hartfield House, Oxford, UK. Hasselblad XPAN.
Luk Keng Village, Hong Kong. Mamiya 645 Pro TL.