Grainy Color: Pari Dukovic

[nightfly]

Not sure if any of you caught Pari Dukovic's amazing (to my eyes) portfolio of behind the scenes fashion images in New York Magazine a few weeks back:

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/02/slideshow-behind-the-scenes-at-fashion-week.html

I really liked how the grainy color images were a good match for the grainy black and whites. I know they were shot on 35mm film and was wondering what type of color film will give you that kind of grain without loosing saturation and looking like mushy crap?

I've got my black and white technique down but color film is still a bit mysterious to me and I'd like to achieve this kind of look. Forgetting whatever post processing occurred for the moment, just looking for a good, flexible high speed, grainy color film.

 

[Stelios]

Bloody brilliant!

 

[MCTuomey]

Bloody brilliant!

+1 and thanks for sharing

 

[canetsbe]

amazing work!

i'll admit I was in a pinch once and had to pick up some lomo film from an urban outfitters. 800 iso. looked even "worse" than the grain in those photos but it's the same idea, being more splotchy with the color almost like bad digital noise. i'd imagine some fuji press 800 or 1600 would be as close as you could get to that look without totally sabotaging your color.

 

[canetsbe]

now look what you did... what HE did... he went and made me buy a brick of press 800... http://www.ultrafineonline.com/fupropr800cz.html

dare i say a damned fine deal as a matter-of-fact!

 

[MCTuomey]

i used to shoot sports in dark venues with press 800. i bet that with some overexposure or post-process desaturation one could get in the vicinity.

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

canetsbe,

i did something similar:

http://www.ultrafineonline.com/futrde400cop.html

🙂

raytoei

 

[Nigel Meaby]

Wow that press 800 is cheap. I wonder what they charge to ship to the UK? Time to investigate. 😀

 

[anu L ogy]

I really can't determine from looking at his b/w work if its digital or film. I'd like to bet film, but I just can't tell. Looking at his personal website only added to the confusion.

 

[canetsbe]

canetsbe,

i did something similar:

http://www.ultrafineonline.com/futrde400cop.html

🙂

raytoei

Nice. I didn't know they had these deals until I googled fuji 800. Will now frequently check their site for these sorts of deals!

 

[canetsbe]

I really can't determine from looking at his b/w work if its digital or film. I'd like to bet film, but I just can't tell. Looking at his personal website only added to the confusion.

Could easily be silver efex or alien skin conversions, but inspiring nonetheless.

 

[David_Manning]

I love the b&w especially.

Really dumb question, I know, but I have to ask...are we sure they're film and not digital?

 

[nightfly]

It's film.

There was something about it in the original article in NY Mag ("We also sent photographer Pari Dukovic to the shows in New York, Paris, and Milan with a suitcase full of film (yes, film!) and a 35-mm. camera. No branding here: The results are beautiful, haunting photographs from both the runway and its attendant sideshow") and he talks about his technique here:

http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/2009/10/nutopian-woodstock/

 

[nightfly]

What's the difference between Fuji Pro Press 800 CZ and Fujifilm Pro NPZ 800 and Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 800 Fuji CZ? Which are still produced?

 

[zvos1]

It's film.

There was something about it in the original article in NY Mag ("We also sent photographer Pari Dukovic to the shows in New York, Paris, and Milan with a suitcase full of film (yes, film!) and a 35-mm. camera. No branding here: The results are beautiful, haunting photographs from both the runway and its attendant sideshow") and he talks about his technique here:

http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/2009/10/nutopian-woodstock/

From the same article:

WTJ: Film or digital ?
PD: I shoot film. I shoot with point and shoot cameras. I use a Yashica T4 or a Ricoh Gr1 film camera. Since the lighting situation is always changing I mix the film speed from 400 ISO to 3200 depending. I hand process, always pushing it by a stop.

 

[totifoto]

Best set of photos I have seen in a long time, thanks for shearing. 🙂

 

[MCTuomey]

It's film.

There was something about it in the original article in NY Mag ("We also sent photographer Pari Dukovic to the shows in New York, Paris, and Milan with a suitcase full of film (yes, film!) and a 35-mm. camera. No branding here: The results are beautiful, haunting photographs from both the runway and its attendant sideshow") and he talks about his technique here:

http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/2009/10/nutopian-woodstock/

His post-processing is digital, of course. And it isn't simply a pass at curves-and-sharpen either. Brilliant methods, in the capture and the processing.