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Charlie Shugart
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Scan of Kodak color slide- recently processed.
No filter at shooting time, and no saturation in processing.
Cropped in processing.
Kodachromes love color.


	Charlie Shugart 2013

A West Coast Sunset

Sep 23, 2013 at 09:38 PM

ben egbert
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

This is why us old Kodachrome shooters love saturation. It came with the film.

Sep 23, 2013 at 09:52 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Hi Charlie - you've been holding out on us! Great shot I love the huge sun. What saturation? Looks pretty normal to me.

Phil

Sep 23, 2013 at 10:40 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Looks awesome Charlie. That looks like one tough exposure to get right.

Sep 24, 2013 at 07:57 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Looks inviting to me Charlie!
Douglas

Sep 24, 2013 at 08:13 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Lovely shot, and indeed that's great color!

Sep 24, 2013 at 08:21 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

It is a lovely view, well captured.

Sep 24, 2013 at 09:15 AM

Charlie Shugart
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Thanks Ben, Phil, Justin, Douglas, Evan and AMaji.
Long-time slide shooters with manual cameras often could figure out the exposures in less time than it took me to write this sentence.
My technique here was basically to take a through-the-lens reading while aiming at a bright area adjacent to the sun- then set exposure manually, zoom and aim for the composition I wanted, focus on infinity, hand-wind the old Canon A-1, and take a shot.
Total of less than 30 seconds, and most of that was in determining comp.
Charlie

Sep 24, 2013 at 11:43 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Classic shot using slide film. I shot a lot of E6 film back in the day on my Nikon FM2. I used Kodachrome a few times but I could not get it processed locally but it had a really nice, unique look.

Slide film had such low dynamic range and narrow exposure sweet spot that it was great for learning, Still is actually.

Most of the images made today are really impossible to do with a single image capture using slide film.

I also used slide film (Pentax 6x7) in the studio using strobes. One needed to significantly soften and diffuse light sources most times.

Sep 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

very nice!
I'd have to work a lot longer to get that myself.

Sep 24, 2013 at 01:50 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

didn't seem like it needed a filter charlie

Beautiful shot here, love the colors.

Jason

Sep 24, 2013 at 02:50 PM

Charlie Shugart
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · West Coast----Red Sky Sunset

Sneakyracer wrote:
"Most of the images made today are really impossible to do with a single image capture using slide film."

How true.
And it brings up a point that has little meaning to many photographers who only got serious during the era of digital photography.
That point being the long-held view of old-timer photographers: "If you can't get the shot with a single press of the shutter release- then you have a picture of something that never existed."
In another ten years only the history books will remember such thinking.
And in some ways, forgetting the past probably makes the present and future easier- but perhaps...Show more →

Sep 24, 2013 at 07:02 PM


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