 Glenn Theal |
Colour Saturation and Vibrancy Hello, I am new to photography and am loving it. However, I am curious as to how to make the colour in my shots seem more saturated and vibrant. Recently, I switched over to using Fuji Superia Negative film. I have heard that their Velvia Transparency film is excellent, but I am a little nervous moving into transparency film at my early stage. Any helpful hints regarding colour saturation would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,
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Chuck |
Glenn, unless you can find a good printer, (professional lab) one who knows how to print color, you might be disappointed. Try to learn to shoot slide film --100 Speed-- Fuji or Kodak, and you will get your saturated color. Chuck
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Piper Lehman |
Hi again, Glenn. I have been studying different films too, but I have to ask you if you are using any filters on your lenses? I have found that using a polarizing filter helps tremendously with reducing haze and dullness. There are other filters that are more specific to color and light, so you're sure to find one or more that works for you. As far as film goes, Kodak offers specs on their Web site listing each film speeds' grain index and the like. The slower the speed, the better the grain, sharpness, color brilliance and resolution. (Their words) Just go to Kodak.com and follow the links to the tech info page. All I know about slide film, other than the fact that I'm scared to use it at this point because of the small zone of error you get with exposure, is that image quality is substantially lowered when you use film speeds above ISO 200. I'd like to ask if anyone here has an opinion of the new(?) Kodak Max Versatility films for zooms (400 and 800 speeds). How do these films compare with the Gold 100 and 200? What about the Royal Gold? Thanks,
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Melissa |
I suggest you to try what I'm about to do: Get a roll, say 12exp, of each film you're considering to switch to and shoot them all under the same conditions and subject (if possible or else similar conditions). Get them developed at a good photo lab (try for a bulk processing discount) and compare the results and see which one you like the best. Make sure you take at least one shot with a person in it. The skin tone will help you identify which films reproduce colours best. Sure, this is not a very cheap way of finding out, but you'll see the film perform to your style of shooting and you will be able to compare the results first hand.
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Glenn Theal |
Hi, All: Thanks for the input. At the moment, I'm currently using Fuji Superia. I am fairly pleased with it. I think once I get the filters that I've ordered (I can't believe it is taking as long as it is for them to arrive) I will notice further improvements in the saturation and brightness of my shots. I too am a little leary of using slide film at my current level of expertise (or lack of it :) ). Anyway, I will let you know how things turn out once the filters arrive. For your info, I've decided to go with the square Cokin series. I've ordered circular polarizer, sunsoft, warming, graduated blue, and fog filters. We'll see what the results turn out like. Cheers,
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