Anyone have examples of low light Astia shots?

I want to do a glamour shoot in a dimly lit location. I've shot there

before using Portra 160NC exp +1 and it worked out really well. I was

thinking Astia might have a similar look (correct me if I'm wrong)

but I haven't used it in a dim situation like that before so I want

to know if anyone has any low light, fashion/glamour/portrait images

they could post that were shot on Astia. If you have any other images

used with other slide films shot under those similar coniditions,

please feel free to post those as well.<br>

The reason why I'm not just shooting on negative film like I did in

the past is because I have an editor who wants slides for the shoot

rather than negatives and I'm trying to decide on a slide film to buy.

Here's an example of my previous shoot using the Portra.<div></div>

Since you're changing over from print to slide film, shooting in incandescent lighting will force you to use blue filtration and lose a couple stops, which means you'll have a very long exposure time with Astia's ISO rating of 100.

You might want to consider Fujichrome 64T, which is tungsten balanced and has similar grain and color balance to the original Astia 100.

Looking at the shot again, I noticed that the girl's shoes are slightly out of focus. Because of the very limited DOF using an ISO 64 or 100 film will give you with the wide open lens, take a second look at Kodak EPJ, which is rated ISO 320 & balanced for tungsten, just like the Fujichrome 64T and Ektachrome EPY. I buy it by the 100 foot roll to use for nighttime auto races under Musco 3700K lighting, and it works well.

 

Just a thought...

I've had good results, in similar lighting, with Provia 400, pushed 1 stop, with a Lee

80A filter (i.e. rated at 200 ASA, with a one stop push). The results were a little warm

(the Lee 80A corrects a little less than some other 80A filters), but this suited the

scenario.

 

However if I were in your situation, I'd do everything I could to persuade the editor

that the

shot would look better on negative (because then I would have fine control over

colour balance).

I think I'll shoot on both types of film. It's all an issue with me trying to fit in with their workflow.

By virtue of it's enormous exposure lattitude Astia is the most workable of the slide films in terms of available light. Still, any of the pro 400 speed print films will be better adept at this type of lighting. That's not an option though it seems.....

 

If it's tungsten lighting an 80A or 80B will almost be mandatory, but it all depends on lighting and aethestic taste. 400F gives you two stops, but it's a harsh film under available light in terms of contrast compared to Astia.