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Warming Vevia 100F with lights


steve_fournier1

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Hi:

 

I am shooting my niece's outdoor wedding next weekend. I am concerned about the nat light as I have

no idea what the conditions, weatherwise, will be. I plan to use my 522 as flash fill regardless. However

my niece is very light skinned so I was considering adding some 3200K from my Lowell DP kit

(diffused) for warmth. Is it ok to mix in tugsten this way? Can Velvia 100F handle the mix? I just recently

got back into using the 645 after a number of years and I do not have any CC filters for my lenses.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve

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That's a pretty big swing between 5000K and 3200K, I'd order a R1.5 and R3 Decamired filter from KEH (they're pretty cheap these days) and test shoot a roll if you can before the wedding. I find that a R3 is about right for light skinned (Norwiegen/Swedish type) persons. It also helps warm up the cool shadows that typically get too blue.
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I hope you know what you are doing. This is the first time ever I hear of someone shooting a wedding on one of the Velvia

films. Too much contrast, too satured, colour casts. Fine for landscapes, not for portraits of any kind. I have stayed clear of

shooting weddings all my life but heard of people using lower contrast colour negative films like Portra NC or the similar Fuji

product for natural skin tones and a white dress.

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Steve. Well I would if I had enough time. I sort of got roped into this and it's been so long since I used any color 120 film, I didn't know what to do. I shot some Velvia 100f over July 4 weekend and was very pleased with colorimitry. However, I did not shoot any people so I wasn't sure about how blue it might shift using a flash as fill. I'll go with Portra for this one as I'd rather not screw up too bad. I shot a test roll today with/without a CTO gel and the lab should have the results tomorrow. I'll give the Provia a shot later on. I got like 30 rolls of Velvia I'll need to burn first.
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That's true, if you're pressed for time, you don't want to be firing away thinking "Hmmm... just how WILL this turn out?"! You can't really go too far wrong with something like Portra I guess, even if you do happen to have colour shift problems, they can all be fixed in the printing.

 

...I hear you on the stockpile of Velvia, I just loaded up on the 50 last month, hopefully it'll last me a while!

 

I'd love to see how some of your test shots came out, and what you decide to do regarding gelling your strobe. Just an incling, but if it were me, I suspect I'd leave it ungelled, just to know I've got that little bit of extra power available, just in case... although, having said that, with a 522, you probably won't have that sort of a worry ;)

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