Color
10.23.2011
I don't shoot much color film these days, in fact, never really have done much with color. It's mostly because I love B&W, but also has something to do with the fact that I've never been very good with color film. Despite that, I put some color into one of the Leica's recently and found that the color images worked much better for what I was doing that particular day.
This is one of the images. Shot on Kodak Portra 400 (the new stuff), it's gotten me thinking about what I'm going to do for Uruguay next year. Actually, a lot of the shooting I'm doing now is to tweak my process to make sure I've got all the technical stuff covered for the trip. So I'm experimenting a lot right now with different cameras, lenses, film and process. It's been quite fun for me to get out with nothing in my head and just shoot. Keepers are far fewer but I'm honing my skills sufficiently to make sure there are less mistakes while I'm on an important shooting excursion.
Reader Comments (3)
Cool shot, Larry!
This has a real impressionist feeling to it... Did you try to crop out the darker section on the bottom and the right side? I'm curious to see how this looks with the surfer in the lower 3rd and the beach more pronounced on the top...
Thanks for sharing!
Tim
Hi Tim,
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I haven't thought about cropping it but I'll look and see what it looks like. I don't think it will work for me because I like the 3 semi parallel lines in the image following the wave.
Larry, how cool to see you shoot color. I did not see a black and white version, but this one, in color does certainly work well. I was excited to see you are seriously considering to come down and visit again. We have to talk dates and start putting energy behind it... Take care!