Provia 100F normal versus pushed

[jorgen83]

Hey guys,
I've never shot slide film, but looking around at the pictures I love, it seems the way to go for me. So I ordered some Provia 100F to experiment with.

I read that it is quite pushable, one or two stops. Now I know what pushing means, technically, but can anybody show me the differences that this would get me? So does anybody have two or three shots of the same subject, one normal and then pushed one and two stops?

Thanks!

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

I don't have the example you want, but some clues: pushed slide film gets more contrast and maybe saturation, and that can be both bad or good... For an overcast, flat light shot it can help, and also depending on the subject (a wild boxer...). Sometimes it can also lose deep blacks, a bad thing for projection, but fixable for scan/process/printing... One use for pushed slide film is making sure you get pure whites really white and clean, as when you have a white background in the studio for a session: the model with light at f/11, but the white background at f/16; we shoot at f/16 and ask the lab for a 1 stop push development... This way even different kinds of white papers (background, floor...) become identical and pure clean white on the slide...

Cheers,

Juan

 

[jorgen83]

Hey Juan, thank you very much, that already helps a lot. I really can't wait to see the results! 🙂