BBF + Fuji Velvia 100F + XPro = ?

Hi everybody.. So sorry for not contributing for such a long time. My life is so so so occupied now with this and that. Its the beginning of my semester and there are already tonnes of work for me to complete and not to forget, I am involved in my University’s basketball competition where I trained almost everyday from evening till near midnight. Sigh.. Time is so limited for me. Thankfully, basketball is over now and its time for me to get back to my normal life.

Basically, U can see what this post is all about through the title clearly.. I have inserted Fuji Velvia into the BBF borrowed from Adrian last month and bringing it everywhere with me. Shoot here and there and these are what u get from the equation at the title.

Velvia 100f gave me a brown color effect or a little bit like redscale every time I xpro it and its not suitable to take night shots with it especially u are using it with your color flash as it only yield the same old brown color. For me, I always feel that slides are not suitable for night shots but I will try to prove myself wrong as I am still lack of experience in trying taking pics this way. I use mostly normal negatives to shoot with color flash as it gives exactly the color u want. U are totally in control with it.. Add some multiple exposure shots with different colors of flash with it.

Here are shots using the same roll of film but with color flash and u can see clearly that the color is almost the same and did not yield any colorful pictures..

And for the photo below, I used normal negative with color flash and you can see the colors clearly especially with multiple exposure technique. Photos are taken with Holga 135bc.

Although Velvia 100f yields brown color pics most of the time but there’s a few shots from me in the past that gave some surprise. This is what i meant here, look at the pics taken with the same velvia 100f, xpro, using my holga 135bc..

The pictures produced from different films may be affected too by the scanner you used to scan it. I am using a Canon Canoscan 4400F to scan most of my pictures but I am always not satisfied with it especially when it involves slides. In my previous post, I mentioned that the Fuji Sensia slides I used for my Penang trip was not as nice as I am expecting, I think the problem is with the scanner I used. I come to this conclusion because another roll of slide I used, Kodak Elite Chrome EBX gave me poor results too. The pictures are not as nice as those I saw in Flickr.

I managed to ask the lady that processes my films in SS2. I asked her why the pictures I scanned myself were not as nice as those she scanned for me where I need to pay RM7 for it. She gave me a very good answer.. My scanner costs RM 400k, yours.. RM 400.. LOL..

I will try to upload some pics from South Africa next time.. Stay tuned clickers..

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