Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, lucky guy - Steve McCurry is one of my favourites. He's doing a book signing here in London in a fortnight, but unfortunately I'll miss it because I'm flying off to exotic climes to emulate him :-) I've shot a lot of K64. For a couple of years I used to rate it at 80 in the camera, but process at 64. This is often recommended by travel photographers. I've stopped doing it though because it increases the contrast in the slides. K64 is quite a contrasty film anyway, and the conditions in which I was shooting were also very high contrast, namely the Ethiopian Highlands, which means bright sunlight at over 5000 metres altitude. I also used a polariser, which increased the contrast still further. Many of the people there have extremely dark skin, and frequently wear a white gabbi (similar to a burnoose), so many of my slides were coming back with a far higher contrast & saturation than I really wanted. The lesson is, decide based on the local conditions whether or not you want to underexpose your K64. Experimentation beforehand pays. Cheers, Bob >From: Doug Nygren <dnygr@cshore.com> > >Over the weekend, I was talking with Steve McCurry, the National >Geographic photographer who shoots a lot for them in India and points >east. He said he shoots with Kodachrome 64 (ie. shot at 80) and >underexposes by a third of a stop so that colors are more saturated. I >do the opposite with color negative film, but I never play with ASA in >transparency film. I'm going to have to experiment with this and see how >it goes. Do any of you shoot your transparency film at slower ASA, do >you slightly underexpose for color saturation? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.