Norah Head Lighthouse – Fotoman 624

Your typical clear morning sunrise shot on the Fotoman 624. Out teaching on this morning showing Tim Wrate the ropes of shooting slide film with his Fuji GX617 (105mm lens). He has been getting some cracking stuff recently as well, I just scanned it and will be sending it back to him on Monday. Tim’s got some really nice stuff on digital as well. He will be a photographer to keep your eye on thats for sure to enjoy his future work, especially with a 617 in his hands.

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Avoca Dawn on the Fotoman 624 ( Fotoman 6×24 )

Seeing I showed you guys the Fuji 617 shot from this sunrise I thought I would put up the Fotoman 624 shot. You should see the tranny this thing makes bloody incredible, especially when it is from a sunrise like this.

This camera is with me all the time now so I will be adding more shots I take with this beast.

Fotoman 624 | 110mm Symmar Lens | Center Filter | Velvia 50 | Lee 2 stop soft grad hand held | F22 for 10 sec

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Observatory Hill on the Fuji GX617

Another shot from the batch of processing this one was taken on my Sydney City Day Course this month. Taken a bit earlier than the digital shot I posted a week ago. The sun was diffused nicely by some high cloud and it was low enough to give great saturated colour, that on top of the Velvia 50 film worked a treat.

Shot on the Fuji GX617 | Velvia 50 slide film

Somersby Falls Vertical, Central Coast, NSW

Shooting slide film at the best of times can be difficult to nail the exposure. Go under the canopy and it can be even harder to perfect. Slow film, reciprocity failure of that film, center filter adding one stop and then a polariser adding two stops. All adds up to quite a long exposure. At least under the canopy the lighting it quite even.

From memory this would have been about 3 min at F16 on the Fuji GX617. If shooting on digital I would have looked at getting my shutter speed to about 1 sec. You get better water detail and also it avoids the highlight at the bottom of the water fall. On this shot even though the highlight is bright it isn’t pure white which is good. If it was it would need repairing.

Heading out this weekend to shoot more under the canopy shots. Undecided if it will be the Blue Mountains or Barrington Tops. Kind of leaning towards the Barrington Tops. See how the weather is come Saturday / Sunday.

Spoon Bay on Velvia 50

Going through a mountain of film from over the years and scanning all the shots you over look or don’t want to add to the site at that time, also heaps of stock images in there as well. Quite a task that’s for sure.

This is one that slipped through the net. What I love about this shot other than the great colour is that it was scanned and then only a slight “Exposure” adjustment layer was added to brighten the foreground. Thats it for the Photoshop side of things with this one. Got to love Velvia 50 slide film.

Shot on Christan Fletchers old work horse that I bought a few years ago, the Fuji GX617 with the 90mm lens @ F45. Click the image for a larger view.

How to shoot fuji velvia 50 slide film video tutorial

When shooting film you don’t have the luxury of looking at the back of your camera to see how your exposure turned out. That’s why it is essential that you know what your doing.

Even more so if your shooting specialty films like Fuji’s Velvia 50. In this tutorial I discuss in detail how to shoot Velvia 50 slide film while sharing my own receprocity failure rates and the concepts behind shooting long exposures with the film that are well outside of the manufactures recommendation.

The tutorial is free to all Rubbing Pixels members or available for purchase for $4.99. To view the tutorial please click here.

Forresters Beach, Central Coast

Just got a swag of film back from the lab. Totally forgot I took this shot as my film has been piling up since February. So it was a nice surprise.

This one is taken at sunrise on Forresters Beach, Central Coast, NSW.

Fuji GX617 on Velvia 50 (of course).

Enjoy.