Push color 400 or go to 800asa

By now, the text sent to Roma:

Hi from Barcelona...

Hi,

These are 35mm, Portra800 rated at 1200, handheld shots, incident metered, with a Push2, with my beloved Nikon FE2 and Nikkor 105mm f/2.5...

When you say to the lab push2, they keep the film into chemicals for a longer time than they do for a simple push. They know exactly hoy many seconds more...

Here in Barcelona there's only one great pro lab, called EGM. It's been the king for decades. They are expensive: 12 euros for a C41 pushed, near $20. They are the only Q-certified Kodak Prolab around, and of course they use Kodak C41 chemicals...

Being a fast film I seldom push it: more for the photographic looks than because of low light. When color and contrast are fine, I love tight grain, different from underexposure grain.

I'm bad scanning and I use an Epson4990 pro photo: I guess you have a better one.

After scanning I touched contrast and saturation, and did some unsharp mask to get closer to the negative grain...

Portra800 is the real thing!

Cheers,

Juan.


Beautiful photos and very natural colors Juan, thank you! Thanks for the info too.

One of these days, I'll make it to Barcelona. If you ever make it to New Orleans, USA, let me know amigo.

Roman


You're welcome, my friend... See you here or there...

Juan
 
Juan Valdenebro said:
Akiva, it would be a pleasure... I just don't know how to post images here, but I can send them to you if you send me your e-mail... Or if you teach me how to post here... (I'm using a Linux laptop...)

Cheers,

Juan

By the way, I love Hendrix and I love and have each and every one of his records, and I love Castles made of sand (from Cry of love, if I remember well...)
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That was from Axis Bold as Love, ya awesome.
 
You're right! That amazing second album with Up from the skies and Little wing... I was thinking of Drifting from The cry of love... It's amazing what a couple of beers can do in confusing my memory!

Well, samples sent to your email...

Some more thoughts: as Al Kaplan said, in artificial or mixed lighting (original post) it could be wise to go with fuji... And as he stated, filters are useful for negatives too: these samples are from an overcast day with Nikon's warming A2 filter to avoid the horrible, cold blues.

Cheers,

Juan
 
I'll probably try several films, just to see, but I most certainly appreciate everyone's input.
I may have to ask the lab to print some small prints from each film since my V700 scanner does weird stuff by default and I have to correct the temperature with filters in photoshop.
 
The stuff I shot with Portra 400NC and 800 in mixed lighting was fine. Maybe Fuji is better, but I don't really care. Portra 800 is a really nice film.

Here's three shots with Portra 400 in strange lighting. Not the best shots, but they are what I have online at the moment with non-ideal/mixed lighting.

Indoor incandescent lighting. Looks fine to me:


Mixed lighting. Sunlight from the window, incandescent from the visible in the middle of the picture:


Fluorescent lighting in a scientific lab. Don't know the color temp of the bulbs:
 
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I've never pushed c41 film, as there's no place here (New Orleans) that will push it, to my knowledge--maybe the darkroom will. Regardless, I get all my c41 done at Walgreens since it's like $2/roll and comes out fine.

I just shot a roll of Fuji Press 800 that I need to get developed, I don't have high hopes though. The roll expired several years ago and all the rolls I got from this person (about 30 rolls, all expired) have some bad frames due to radiation of some sort, anyways, hopefully some will turn out.

Good to see yet another 504 person on the rff
 
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