Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts

05 August 2009

Velvia? No thanks.






When we finally booked our honeymoon to NZ, I went a bit nuts with the idea of taking the Minolta on a bit of a trip. I'd always regretted not taking it to Europe in 2007, so I was determined to make this a good'un.

So I stocked up on film: 10 x Reala, 2 x Velvia 100, 2 x Kodak slide film (not used).

After quite a while of waiting, I finally got the Velvia developed. Results above. The thing holding me back was that it was going to cost a lot of money to have them developed & scanned (about $42 each film done locally). SO thanks to a reasonably favourable return from Mr Swan, I finally got them done.

And I found out that I don't much like Velvia. It's okay, but not something I'll be using again. Feels a bit...er...over saturated. Silly thing to notice about Velvia, I know. But I just don't much like the feel of it. Over saturated & very cold (the examples above don't relfect this well, as all those scenes were fairly cold anyways).

Another learning experience. I'll stick to Fuji & Ilford print film in future.

26 March 2009

NZ Photos








A small selection of the first bunch of photos from the NZ Honeymoon. Developed three rolls, straight to CD. I like the results. Beautiful colours, and the Minolta did an exceptionally good (quite sharp) job. First time I've taken the Minolta overseas, now I really wish I'd taked in to Europe, but ehhh...too late now.

I'm impressed with this Reala stuff. Might have to get some more soon.