on film : fruit stands at market! market!
canon av-1 + 50mm 1:1.8 + centuria 200
I remember my cousin and I looking for something to drink around market!market!, we ended up in this lane of fruit stands where the colors were catching my eye and my camera to just say TAKE A GODDAMN PICTURE WHY DON’T YOU?!
So, I did. Above is the untampered, photo straight from digiprint, and I must say when I tried light-rooming the picture. It indeed became a lot more colorful.
canon av-1 + 50mm 1:1.8 + centuria 200 + lightroom love
The things you can do with digitalizing these days…(I am fully aware I will discuss a long and boring post about post-processing next time…)
February 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Some really nice colours there Donna. How do you transfer your prints/negs to digital if you don’t mind me asking?
February 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hi George :), thanks for the comment.
There’s a store here in Manila called Digiprint that scans c-41 films to a CD :) its 275 pesos (around $8 US I think) for 5 rolls :)
February 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
The AV-1 relies on a centerweighted metering system.
The bright area of the fruit stand is almost dead center of the frame.
Did you compensate for this while shooting by overexposing a bit?
February 11th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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February 11th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Hi Sir Jo, I didn’t know about av-1’s center weighted metering (I must read the camera manual again hehehe:)) …
Also, I didn’t quite get what you meant by compensating for this shooting by overexposing a bit, can you please enlighten me on that? Thank you so much :)
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February 11th, 2008 at 7:37 am
The camera’s built-in lightmeter measures the amount of light bouncing off a surface. The exposure settings the camera recommends are always based upon the amount of available light and the ISO (of the film, in this case) that you are using.
The camera’s lightmeter will always try to expose for middle/neutral/180% gray. Hence, your shot will be a bit underexposed if you take a meter reading off something that is bright. You should compensate by overexposing your shot a bit if you do not want your shot to be underexposed.
You can purposely overexpose your shots with the AV-1 by setting the ISO dial to a lower ISO setting (just be sure to set it back to the proper ISO setting afterwards).
Or, the backlight button of the AV-1 will cause your shots to become overexposed by +1 1/2 stops (if I remember the exposure values correctly).
February 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Thanks for the detailed explanation sir Jo :), I will try that next time