Lomography particular impact movie comparability: Metropolis, Purple, Turquoise, Redscale

As a hobbyist photographer, I’ve traditionally not undertaken picture tasks, doing so simply wasn’t on my radar. Sometimes, I take a digital camera with me and shoot wherever I’m, whether or not that’s whereas touring for work, or simply going out for the day, and so on. Fundamental fanatic photographer stuff. Granted, a set of pictures from a visit which have been culled, edited, and curated might technically be thought of a mission by some, however for me they have been simply the results of my having a digital camera with me on the time.

Nonetheless, final fall my daughter moved a 4.5-hour drive away to attend school and I discovered myself with an excuse to lastly assign myself a mission of types. As I used to be driving forwards and backwards for 9-10 hours in a single day roundtrip 1-2 instances a month, and usually on my own for half of the journey, it appeared like a very good plan to interrupt up the monotony of the drive by photographing the jap half of Washington state, a panorama that I had by no means actually ventured by way of earlier than.

I attempt to shoot movie as a lot as attainable, and my digital camera assortment displays that, with the vast majority of my gear being of the silver halide etching selection. I’m lucky sufficient to have some nice items of movie package: Leica M6, Hasselblad Xpan, Rolleiflex K4B, Mamiya 6, Bronica SQ-A, Nikon F100, Nikon FE, and some others that escape reminiscence proper now and that I’m too lazy to take a look at the shelf to determine. I additionally have a tendency to hold my Leica M10-D in case I would like/must shoot digital if the scenario/lighting dictates.

After a couple of forwards and backwards journeys capturing previous barns, attention-grabbing (to me) rural landscapes, and so on, I had the concept to shoot these similar scenes on 4 completely different Lomography “particular results” movie shares:

Now, I perceive that this isn’t an unique thought because the web is rife with movie inventory comparisons, however usually instances they’re shot on completely different cameras, from completely different angles, or at completely different instances/areas. I’ve 4 120 movie backs for my Bronica SQ-A and a tripod, so I assumed I’d attempt to seize the very same frames on all 4 of those different emulsions for a extra even comparability. The final word Lomography movie inventory comparability. That was my idea at the least.

So, a brand new mission in thoughts, I loaded my final roll of (flippantly expired) LomoChrome Turquoise XR 100-400, and contemporary rolls of LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400, LomoChrome Metropolis XR 100-400, and Redscale XR 50-200 into my 4 movie backs and thought I’d see what occurs. What I didn’t anticipate was to take practically 6 months to truly end capturing all of the rolls (and successfully holding my SQ-A hostage for that complete time), however such is life.

Now, for the caveats

I shot all the rolls at 200 ISO: proper in the midst of the ISO vary of all of the movies aside from Redscale which has a spread of 50-200 ISO. Because of this, I ended up underexposing the Redscale pictures in nearly each occasion, so please take these with a grain of salt. All the pictures of a selected scene have been shot on the similar ISO, aperture, and shutter velocity as dictated by the sunshine. Typically I’d use the metered prism within the Bronica, generally a lightweight meter app on my iPhone.

I used my 80mm f/2.8, 50mm f/3.5, and 200mm f/4.5 Bronica lenses for the pictures, usually with a B+W CPL filter, and in a single case a Second 10% Cinebloom diffusion filter. I had my native lab develop and scan the pictures on their Noritsu scanner, and I then edited the recordsdata to my style in Lightroom.

A number of the pictures exhibited minor points corresponding to small gentle leaks (time to order some seals) or the standard quirks that come from capturing Lomo shares. The focal airplane of the composition is barely completely different in some pictures as I used to be speeding and generally forgot that essential step, however because the colours have been the topic, I can dwell with that.

Additionally, my crops is likely to be a bit completely different in a few of the pictures as I used to be working round scanner borders, and so on., however relaxation assured they have been all captured from a tripod and never recomposed for every emulsion. Listed here are 6 comparability scenes (plus a few bonus pictures). None of those are wonderful pictures (I usually simply pulled over on the freeway and shot them as rapidly as attainable, therefore the inconsistent focus and so on), however have been quite captured for the needs of the comparability.

Shot 1 – Barn

I appreciated the juxtaposition of the older and newer barns subsequent to one another on this dry wheat subject. The Turquoise was my favourite for this shot.

Shot 2 – Creek

I drove down a highway searching for an overlook to shoot a valley, and found this as a substitute. The Purple was my favourite for this shot.

Shot 3 – Ski Slope

Driving over the mountain cross, I finished to shoot the empty slope. The Metropolis was my favourite right here for some cause.

Shot 4 – Pond

Mainly a retention pond on some farmland, undecided why it caught my eye, however right here it’s. The Redscale was my favourite for this shot.

Shot 5 – Temple

This can be a temple close to my home. It’s so stuffed with coloration, it made sense so as to add it to the comparability. That is one the place you may see I refocused. I like each the Metropolis and Purple for this one.

Shot 6 – Ness

My spouse reluctantly sat nonetheless whereas I did a hasty indoor portrait with some window gentle. The Purple and Turquoise make me smile for this one.

Listed here are some spare pictures the place solely 3 out of 4 of the emulsions got here out do to person error, mirror lockup, and so on.

Bonus Shot 7 – Hill

Simply the rolling hills within the background of prairie land. The Redscale is by far my favourite right here.

Bonus Shot 8 – Cows

Just a few cows in a roadside subject, however I assumed the sky would lend itself to the comparability. I like each the Purple and Turquoise right here.

My take aways

On the finish of the day, this wasn’t fairly the insanely superior, end-all-be-all comparability I envisioned, however I nonetheless discovered it instructional.

I had solely ever shot LomoChrome Turquoise in 35mm and that was a single roll in my Xpan whereas in Maui: I LOVED these pictures and have a number of rolls in each codecs on preorder from Lomography for the primary batch of the brand new components when it lastly ships.

I’ve had restricted (i.e. principally zero) success with the few rolls of LomoChrome Purple I’ve tried prior to now, however I need to take one other stab at it. Lomography Redscale might be one I gained’t come again to, however I do have one roll left within the fridge so I’ll shoot it nearer to 50-100 ISO and see what occurs. I assume it is going to be manner higher than what I delivered to the desk right here.

That simply leaves LomoChrome Metropolis, which I’ve solely shot 2 rolls of in whole. I really feel like I need to find it irresistible, perhaps subsequent time I journey to NY for work I’ll toss a roll in my bag and see what occurs, nevertheless, I see myself grabbing Portra as a substitute.

However, clearly, Turquoise is the one which tugs at my chilly, useless coronary heart essentially the most — primarily based on my preorder. Even when it wasn’t picked as winner essentially the most instances above, it’s the one which I see myself utilizing extra going ahead. I’m curious to see how the components has modified this time round, if solely I had one final roll of previous Turquoise to match it to…

~ Ryan

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