i got my xpro pics back today (hats off to spectrum imaging’s lightning-fast turnaround) and i have to say i’m really enjoying that all-analogue weirdiness, especially after all the muted colours of the polas/ttv. the overexposures where my lightmeter died show a really extreme colour shift (to red/magenta, a surprise when i was expecting blue from the tungsten balanced film). i prefer the in-betweeny ones that are correctly exposed but brightly lit/high colour subjects. i really like the building site ones but they’re from the sunday and i already have a pic for day 10.

i spent far too long for a very pregnant person lying in an awkward position setting up this shot, waiting for them to drift into the frame. when they finally did i had to take what i could get so they were way off centre and i’ve cropped this. i don’t want to make any other adjustments to these pics as i reckon it defeats the object. in an ideal world i’d darken the foreground, but i’m pleased that this has come out otherwise fairly like i’d hoped.

except of course that - unless you’re using safari - i can’t show it to you as i see it (you have to take my word they’re even better than they look here :D) thanks to something to do with colour profiles that i kind of get and kind of don’t. i’d really like to show these fully saturated/contrasty as that’s pretty much the point. i understand what i’ve read about it, but i can’t get the supposed fixes to work for me, so far. in my quest to get a handle on it i have calibrated my monitor though, and adjusted my gamma from mac-standard 1.8 to pc-standard 2.2. my whole online world looks rather different, much more contrasty. i can’t say i care for it much at the moment, but i guess my images (especially the polas that i match on screen to what i have in my hand) will prolly lighten up a whole load as a result.

links for later ref: here, here, here,

is it cheating posting a diptych? the second pic was very much taken with the contrast in mind, although the amount of movement is, let’s say, an added bonus. the first was taken against yesterday’s still life setup (tissue paper over the window) with a tripod and is probably the sharpest pola i’ve made yet. the second was taken in late light /rain/wind, hence the movement. i love the colour of the original, although i’m having various colour issues at the moment, more of which anon.