advice for indoor film

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Nicolae Santean - 31 May 2005 13:57 GMT

I have recently been asked to take pictures of the speakers in a conference.
I have done it once last year and I did not like the outcome very much - you
can see it at :

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~nic/dcfs04/

The pictures will be scanned and posted on the web. Any advice on WHAT FILM
should I use this time will be greatly appreciated. I am an amateur and I
will use the following : a 35-70mm f4 Zuiko lens, a 6000 Kelvin Vivitar
flash and a camera body with 1/125 sync speed.

If you look at the pictures of the last year (link above) you will see that
they seem "harsh" and quite bluish - due to the flash I guess - and I would
like to correct this with the film eventually (I must stick with the present
equipment). If I recall correctly, last time I used a Kodak Gold 400.

Any other advice is welcomed. I will start shooting on Monday, so I have
only this week for advices.

Thanks a lot,

Nic.

Reply to this Message

Craig Marston - 31 May 2005 14:18 GMT

> If you look at the pictures of the last year (link above) you will see
> that
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Nic.

Try some Fuji SUPER G 1600 (I only use Fuji Colour film so that's all I can
comment on) which should give you enough scope to include some ambient
lighting, and soften the shadows. Use a tripod or monopod too.
Fuji used to make a 3200 ISO colour negative film but it isn't listed on
their website.
Do you have anything to diffuse your flash, as that will also help to soften
the shadows.

Best regards,

Craig.

Reply to this Message

Mr. Mark - 31 May 2005 22:20 GMT

> Try some Fuji SUPER G 1600 (I only use Fuji Colour film so that's all I can
> comment on) which should give you enough scope to include some ambient
> lighting, and soften the shadows. Use a tripod or monopod too.
> Fuji used to make a 3200 ISO colour negative film but it isn't listed on
> their website.

The Fuji Press 1600 pushes to 3200 nicely.

> Do you have anything to diffuse your flash, as that will also help to soften
> the shadows.

That was the only problem I could see in the photos - the lighting was
harsh.

Signature

Mark

Photos, Ideas & Opinions
http://www.marklauter.com

Reply to this Message

Craig Marston - 31 May 2005 14:19 GMT

> If you look at the pictures of the last year (link above) you will see
> that
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Nic.

Reply to this Message

Marvin - 31 May 2005 17:29 GMT

> I have recently been asked to take pictures of the speakers in a conference.
> I have done it once last year and I did not like the outcome very much - you
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>
> Nic.

The skin colors look good. Some pictures have a blue backgound - was that the true color
of the background? It lloks like the group photos were taken in bright sunlight,
presumably without a flash. Yet the stone of the looks blue where it is in shadow.
Shadows often do look blue, because they are illuminated by scattered daylight, and
scattering increases the blue wavelengths relative to the longer wavelengths of light.

If you scan the pictures into a computer, image editing software can let you increase or
decrease colors individually, even in selected areas only.

Reply to this Message