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Are you saving your photos as sRGB and including a colour (ICC) profile for sRGB in the file itself?

 

I believe this is the safest way to ensure they are read properly by most browsers in most cases (though one can never be sure how an image looks on someone else's monitor, of course).

 

 

 

No I don't mind Henry - I'm getting frustrated with this color profiling stuff. Things look fine to me in Safari, but not in Chrome. What I see in Safari is closer to your rendition, but with a touch less contrast.

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a first foray from my western trip ..... ektar 100 fuji 945W .... bryce national park ...

Gorgeous, Steve.

It is time to sell the Q and acquire some enhanced patience for an all film workflow. I know as a busy New Yorker it is difficult for you but it really is the only way.

Happy to discuss further...

:)

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a first foray from my western trip ..... ektar 100 fuji 945W .... bryce national park ...

Enticing location Steve.

This is an example of what I refer to as 'enhanced Ektar' colour rendering. I know Adam likes it, and others as well. I just find it a little too far from what the eye sees. (Now you are going to tell me that's what you saw. :)  )

My usual preference is for how Portra renders and I am confident this pic would have been not quite so saturated. ie. more normal.

This is only my observation and I already know Adams view, and respect it. Of course this could be your taste too. Then all is well.

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For Erl who loves Portra me too

I like all Kodak products in film :) one of the best film

and for Gary in color :)

 

Marseille le Vieux Port , the Old port

at sunset

 

 

Kodak Portra 400

(dev home lab Tetenal 30°C)

Leica MP-50 Lux Asph

Nikon Coolscan 5000

 

 

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Another one of the best film brand is Fuji

 

 

Fuji Superia 200

MP-50 LA

Nikon Coolscan V

 

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Versailles Castle

 

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Enticing location Steve.

This is an example of what I refer to as 'enhanced Ektar' colour rendering. I know Adam likes it, and others as well. I just find it a little too far from what the eye sees. (Now you are going to tell me that's what you saw. :)  )

My usual preference is for how Portra renders and I am confident this pic would have been not quite so saturated. ie. more normal.

This is only my observation and I already know Adams view, and respect it. Of course this could be your taste too. Then all is well.

Ahh, the discussion I was wanting to have.  Good of you, Erl.  :)

 

As I feasted my eyes on Steve's photo, I was doing so in the context of the photos of these scenes that Steve took with his Q, which he has shared in the Photo Forum.   To me, hands down this Ektar shot is much more pleasing to my eye.  The colors palette is more, well, delicious.

 

Having said this, Ektar would not have been my 1st, 2nd or even 3rd choice of film for this scene.

 

This discussion very much gels with the experience that I am having here in Israel, most Jerusalem and its hills and terrain.   Here, I am immersed in earth tones.  And I want to do them justice. I have been doing heavy shooting at the Western Wall, various scenes along the Judean Hills (I shot a hillside full of grazing goats on the way to Tel Aviv this morning :p ), the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (with lots of desert flowers), wall murals, etc.  I haven't even brought Ektar along with me once.  It has been Velvia 50 and Portra 160 and occasionally Provia 100 (for when I want slide film but the exposure or contrast is too much for the velvia 50).  I am just too afraid of not getting deliciously intensively realistic earth tones with the Ektar, and instead getting tones that have an reddish rather than neutral hue.  So I have been using the Ektar for night shots and other long exposures (which Ektar really excels at).

 

So while I use Ektar heavily in NYC with the buildings, water and different colored skies, the change in my surroundings has prompted me to pivot to film stocks that better suit the color palette in which I am immersed.

 

Horses for courses....

 

For Steve's shot, my first three choices would have been veliva 50, provia 100F and portra 160.  Each would have been equally beautiful in their own way but distinct in rendition.  Having said this, the Ektar is also beautiful and makes mince meat of the Q

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Adam and Erl  if you still take pictures in digital Leica, the more closer and faithful film to me
is Kodak film.

Which is great in the film is the choice, depending on your shooting subject  as just said Adam and Erl.
Usually it's Kodak I most use.
Maybe these films are  one of the best and you don't have the  "flat" and "synthesis" side and disadvantage
of digit like with your CCD M8 or M9.But if you still like color of these digit cameras , the choice of Kodak specially Portra film is the best ,  logic because CCD sensor comes from Kodak :) 
The CMOS is still not at the level in my opinion.

 

Finally one welknown photographer has said  "Each film is a new sensor" I think he's right :)

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Henry

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Gary this photo posted below is a bit underexposed because I took in "contre jour"

sun behind the building

I have corrected in LR :)Despite this correction the definition of columns remains good IMO

 

Your opinion ?

 

 

Grand Palais

Paris , at dawn

 

Kodak Portra 160

MP-50 LA

 

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Kodak Portra 400

MP-35 Lux Asph focus at 0.70

 

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My father-in-law's last posting in the navy was to be the officer commanding. My wife and I were medical students at the time and would get on our bicycles and come and visit occasionally, staying in his quarters on the ground floor of the wing furthest from the camera. The annual Greenwich Ball in the Painted Hall was quite an event!

 

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Saint Malo beach in Brittany

I think Cristoph knows this city  :)

 

in front of the castle with Saint Malo flag

"La Cité des Corsaires" (old "city of pirates") :)

 

Kodak TX 400

dev D76 dil 1:1

MP-50 LA

 

 

Gary also corrected a bit in LR  because the contre-jour :)

 

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Henry

 

 

 

 

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Gary this photo posted below is a bit underexposed because I took in "contre jour"

sun behind the building

I have corrected in LR :) Despite this correction the definition of columns remains good IMO

 

Your opinion ?

 

 

Grand Palais

Paris , at dawn

 

Kodak Portra 160

MP-50 LA

 

attachicon.gifImage15-2grdpalakp160vvlfht+++950tc.jpg

 

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Henry

Looks perfect to me Henry, the foreground could be even less corrected I reckon.

Excellent shots.

Gary

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One of our city garden where I go for relaxing when I am tired and to be alone  :)

Quiz : where is the cat ? :)

 

Kodak Portra 160

(dev home lab)

M7-28 Summicron Asph

Nikon Coolscan 5000

picture uncorrected

 

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For Dirk :)

 

Kodak TX

MP-50 LA

Nikon Coolscan V

 

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Nikon F5, Nikkor 70-180, APX 100, Rodinal 1:25

 

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Also for Dirk  :)

I notice that Dirk prefer color with his M digit isn't ?

I post these 2 pictures to show him that color is also nice in film for cars :)

He must compare the 2 systems for the color just to see ....

 

Montléry circuit *

 

Kodak Ektar

MP-50 LA (picture 1)

Nikon Coolscan V

 

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and A-Cron 90 (picture2)

 

 

Rg

H.

 

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodrome_de_Linas-Montlh%C3%A9ry

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