Triplet 2
A while back I had another shot of this mural in Triplet, or actually a shot of the mural lights and their shadows.
I really like that other shot for the bands of colours, but I like this one too. It has its own bands, and shadows too.
And the colours of slide film.
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Olympus XA, f2.8/35mm lens, Fujichrome Provia 400F, scanned with Epson V700, edited in Lightroom.
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burnt embers 
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That really is a most imaginative piece of art, especially that appearance of the art work’s shadow at the left edge. I too like the softish pastel colours.
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Hi Andy. I agree, it works very well. This is on one side of a corner parking lot. The other building wall at right angles to this has a very nice mural as well, which I got a clear view of the other day. I took a picture of it, but on expired film that is not back from the lab yet. If not too badly colour shifted, it will probably show up here.
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My old Kodachromes from way back are as vivid as ever but some of the Ektachromes have faded. This may be due to poor processing by local photo shops rather than an inherent weakness of the film itself. I liked Ferraniacolor but not Agfacolor which produced an interesting but wholly different world of colour.
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Hi Val. My Ektachromes from the late 70’s/early 80’s are still fine, as are all my other slides, so far. I recently bought a medium format camera that came with 5 rolls of 120 Ektachrome 64 and 100, expired in 91. It will be fun to see how it looks when shot all these years later – the camera is excellent so I expect to be shooting 120 film quite a bit in the near future.
Also, Ferrania languished for a while, but was recently bought and is being put back into production as a specialty film maker (aren’t all film manufacturers speciality these days? as in fringe of the photographic market).
Ferrania has a kickstarter program going at the moment, which involves committing to preordering a roll or pack of film for slightly inflated price to get the equipment back in working order, etc. People that know photographers who shoot 120 and 35mm film, might consider a roll or two as a Christmas present, though it might be months in the arriving.
http://www.filmferrania.it/news/2014/success
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Slide film users know that each brand had a unique look to it and the way it could interpret a scene in certain lighting was probably the greatest factor, along with speed, why photographers choose it. My favorite was Kodachrome because of the saturated colors under overcast lighting, an almost constant condition here. I liked Fuji films as well but many stores didn’t carry it here in Rochester. I know there are plugins that try to approximate different black and white films but I don’t know of any that can be used for color films. Could be interesting.
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Hi Ken. Kodachrome was my standby as well. I found Ektachrome was too heavy on the blues. I sometimes used Fuji too and liked it, but Kodachrome was handy for field work because I could pop the rolls in their envelope and into the mail while I was out in the field, and when I got home I would have a bunch of boxes of processed film. That was probably the main reason I used Kodachrome (K64 usually), but I sure do like the look of it.
There is a plug in for film, here: http://vsco.co/. I have it on my phone, but find that they bundle everything into small pricey packages so I don’t use it much (I dont use my phone camera much when it comes down to it). However it does seem to work extremely well. I first came across it following Phil Kneen’s work, a terrific Manx portrait photographer who shoots digital and analogue. He has recently declared that he can recognise the VSCO look, that people are overusing it, and that if he wants the film look he will just shoot film. Though I am not sure he is sticking with that as more recent posts sometimes carry the vsco tag. https://philkneen.wordpress.com/tag/vsco/
It appears to be a very good product, versions exist for lightroom, and the different bundles seem to carry different groups of film emulations, as well as the adjustments. The tutorials on their website give an idea of how well they work, the power and control that you have and the wide range of film types in each of the products. Pricey, but if dedicated to the look of film in the digital world, then this is probably where you want to start. If only the price included everything that is in all the bundles (though it might be unwieldy as that is a boatload of film types).
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