I started to realise that I was liking the look of photos shot on Kodak Portra. I wanted to shoot some of it to see what I thought. I bought a pack of 5 rolls of 160VC from Glazer’s just before heading to OSCON.
Here are some of the shots I got:
(granted I didn’t press the shutter release, but I like it)
Is the one that sealed it for me. This was the “ahh… I can use this for all sorts” shot.
All of these were developed and scanned at the Walgreens down the street. I could probably do better scans of some… but this was awfully less work for me.
I am really liking the skin tones from it. The vividness of colours also comes through while retaining excellent skin tones (certainly not always the case). I may even end up shooting some at Burning Man (did buy more rolls yesterday!)
There is (of course) more being added to my Kodak Portra 160VC set on flickr.
I’ve been shooting on some high-speed Portra NC film for a while now and have been enjoying it a lot. Looks like the VC film might be worth a look as well. Thanks!
ISO160 isn’t too bad really. with a 50mm f1.8 on there, can shoot for a while as the sun sets too.
I think I see what you mean about the final shot. One set of colours/focus/objects in the objects on the line, another set in the distance, but they kind of go together & there’s enough variety in the image to work it (or sections of it) into an enormous variety of topics.
Nice photos!