The Ektachrome. After spending the back end of last summer/autumn with it I had to wonder why? Why - in the modern age - would anyone shoot slide? I've tried Provia, Velvia, Crossbird and now Ektachrome. Whilst the transparencies look amazing and magical, I've yet to find anything that's as nice as when I shot Portra 160.
The feel that your image has is the same feel I get from the images I took with it. And it's something I've been unable to reproduce with any other colour film. You say you struggle to scan it well, but it looks pretty damn good to me.
Might be thirty (or more) years ago when shot was taken.
Have you kept any of the photos you took when they were building it, Brian?My crappy shot of Kenilworth castle is boring compared to yours
I have a shameful anecdote about Kenilworth Castle, off topic I'm afraid. The first time I visited it was from my flat in Birmingham, when I was at university. Three friends and I shared two bedsits in a building on the corner of Edgbaston Road and Willows Road which led to Balsall Heath, opposite Cannon Hill Park, imagine being wealthy enough to afford a gaff round there now It's either a probation hostel or nursery now according to Google Maps. Never mind the background, we decided to visit Kenilworth one Saturday. The household had adopted a stray cat so we decided to take the cat along. On the way it vomited all over the back of my prized Riley RMA and, when we arrived, the consensus was that we should let the cat go in Kenilworth instead of taking it home. I'd like to think that the cat had a better life in Kenilworth than in a stinky damp flat in Edgbaston, even though we had lots of mice living in the couch. What can you expect when the rent was £2 a room/week?My crappy shot of Kenilworth castle is boring compared to yours
Bri drew up the plansHave you kept any of the photos you took when they were building it, Brian?
Nice, Brian, but definitely not Kenilworth! Those cars would be in the (ex-) moat!My crappy shot of Kenilworth castle is boring compared to yours
I've never been convinced about Portra for UK landscapes but it certainly works in this photo.
Have you kept any of the photos you took when they were building it, Brian?
Bri drew up the plans
Given Brian's username and the above comments, I can only assume that it must be Camelot .................
Heavy ones by the look of it.
That's a lovely image Chris.
My crappy shot of Kenilworth castle is boring compared to yours
Kenilworth Castle doesn't have fancy towers like those on the right in this shot.
I suspect the leaf was located in the grounds of Kenilworth castle though
Me like very much !
Autumn Sunrise in the woods
Autumn sunrise by Jonathan Woods, on Flickr
Nikon F80
Velvia 50
Nikon 35mm F/2
Oh yeah, definitely get it loaded, especially with spring coming as well . Yes, I used the built in meter in the F80. I had no idea how it would behave in light like this, but it did ok. I set the camera to meter over the widest coverage of the view finder (not spot, or centre weighted, the other one. Was it called matrix metering back in the days of the F80? I don’t recall...) and metered with the center of the view finder where the end of the path is, with the camera in landscape orientation. I figured this way it would sample a good range of tones in the image, before shooting in portrait. I was essentially putting complete faith in the camera, as if never shot slide on it before and had no idea how it would come out.
Many thanks Nige
