Morning at Blowing Rocks

[Don Lacy]

I reworked a scan of one of my favorite images from when I was shooting slide film. This image was made on Velvia 50 with a EOS 3 camera ( which I still have along with my Elan7) and at the time a brand new 17-40 f/4 and a two stop hard edge ND filter. I used to love shooting slide film with Velvia and Extachrome VS being my favorites I just love the rich vibrant colors they would produce. The colors on this image have not been enhanced from what the scan captured if you viewed the slide on a light table this is what you would see as far as colors go.

[Diane Miller]

Ah, yes - I remember those magentas!! I used to love Velvia! And for a high-contrast film you did an excellent job of holding down the brightness in the sky.

But, would you ever go back?

[Don Lacy]

But, would you ever go back?
No My 6D surpasses the image quality of medium format film and why shoot analog just to scan it into digital form.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Simply a stunning scene and moment, Don! I never shot film but love that Velvia look for sure.
Great detail in the lights and darks here...

[Don Railton]

Wonderful colour Don...! I like that there is still plenty of detail in the sand and rocks in the FG and yet you achieved a psychedelic 70's coloured sky...

DON

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Don, lovely image for sure...no tweaks required...I do miss those Velvia days but like you my D800 surpasses the image quality.

[Hazel Grant]

comments above cover it. My first thought was wow, should be in OOTB with those color tweaks....and then I find they are real! What a catch. Beautiful.

[Don Lacy]

comments above cover it. My first thought was wow, should be in OOTB with those color tweaks....and then I find they are real! What a catch. Beautiful.
That depends on what your definition is of real, are they an accurate representation of the slide yes, are they an accurate representation of what I saw no. If I had shot the scene with a different film the color pallet would be different, unlike digital where you have many artistic choices when shooting slides your only choice was the film you used, another reason I would not go back to shooting slide film.

[Hazel Grant]

ok. thanks for clearing that up. Guess I was thinking back to the days of when I grew up on the east coast area that didn't see sunsets. I remember seeing paintings of the West and those colorful pink, cyan etc skies and thinking "Why don't they paint them the way they really look?" Then I moved to California and saw how "real" those paintings were. Skies really could be cyan or bright yellow, etc. A wonderful learning curve for me.

[Neil Burton]

Wonderful colours and gorgeous scene. I remember when the stallwarts said "Digital will never beat film!"

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Don - beautiful color palette and great detail in the fg.

TFS,
Rachel