At 12:14 AM 3/10/2003 +0800, you wrote:
Provia sucked... in my hands.. I am use to shooting very forgiving Reala,
and so my provia shots sucked ... arrg!
But it does show quite a bit, what good metering and bad metering looks
like. Very sharp, when done right, but unfortunately, all it did for me
is tell me how much more I have to go as far as my photography skills.
That said.. Shooting Provia makes me want a medium format really badly..
Albert
Welcome to the anguish of transparencies, Albert. If it's any comfort, I
could show you many many such failures. With slide, you can't run or hide
as you can with print film. But it's the only way to learn. And with what
you learn you'll improve your print film shooting too. Print film really
isn't at it's best under- or over-exposed, even though the 4x6 prints from
the grocery store lab might be "acceptable."
With 35mm it is always most important to get the highlights right and let
the shadows fall where they will. I think it is true even with print
film. I was taught to expose BW film for the shadows, but this presupposes
development to control the highlights. One doesn't usually have this kind
of control in C-41 development (or even with BW most of the time), so I
basically shoot print and slide film the same way.
Joel W.
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