Nearly two years ago, I shot this photo of fall leaves in my driveway after a day’s worth of rain. At the time, I used a digital camera to do it. However, I also did a couple of shots on film. It’s only now, a couple of years later, that I’ve gotten around to pulling the film out of the refrigerator and actually developing it.
An odd thing to post in the middle of winter, but we’ll all be baking in the sun a couple of months from now and yearning for fall, with all the pumpkin spice shenanigans that go with it.
On one hand, if you compare this with the digital canon shot, the colors appear more muted. In reality, I “cheated” a lot with color saturation. Kodak film color is in general not as punchy and more muted – and while I did “cheat” a bit editing this one, I didn’t do it quite as much. I suppose I wasn’t feeling quite so “color happy” on this photo. That having been said, Kodak’s Pro Image film is really designed more for people than for objects – for capturing various shades of flesh tone, where you don’t really want a lot of color punch (unless you want to make the person look like an oompa loompa from the Willy Wonka movie). Having said that, the result is quite pleasing and I am perhaps too hard on Kodak, usually preferring Fuji film.
Shoot photos, not each other!
And, here’s an added bonus. Just for grins, to help me decide what I wanted to scan, I held the film negative up against the iPad and then took a picture of it using the “Light Box Loupe” app on my iPhone, which shoots it as a reversed image. Unlucky frame number 13?
Adventures of a Photo Nerd 