After that amazing use of Kodachrome displayed by airfrogusmc I thought the lyrics to the 1973 hit Simon and Garfunkel song should be in this thread.
[Verse 1]
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
[Chorus]
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
[Verse 2]
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
And brought 'em all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white
[Chorus]
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
[Post-Chorus]
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
[Refrain]
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Oh-oooh-oooh-oooh
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Funny thing, I shot PKR, PKL and PKM for 4 decades and I don't ever remember the saturation being so intense -- definitely not maximally intense in every color channel -- even when intentionally underexposed.
Are those scans SOOC or are you adding saturation in post? Or using a color science profile in the camera that adds saturation? I hate to say it, but some of the later "Kodachrome" images look like a heavily processed digital image, not film, and definitely not Kodachrome.
I still like the images. The colors are impressive. Buy my Kodachrome brain is having trouble wrapping itself around those colors as looking like Kodachrome.
I always under exposed Kodachrome by 1/3 of a stop and it helps if the colors are there. No saturation added. The 120 was shot with a Hasselbled 500 C/M and the 135 were shot with a Canon F-1
Yes, I always underexposed as well, either 1/3 or 1/2 depending on the gear. I thought the earlier pics in the series definitely had "the look" but the later images were just SO intense -- maybe I'm just not used to shooting subjects that are so intensely saturated. They're so intense that I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around them as natural Kodachrome images. If they're natural, then you should get an award for the most intense colors ever shot on Kodachrome.
Purple sunset over Lake Michigan using Fuji Velvia circa 1994. Site of a major lumber port on the Leelanau Peninsula North of Leland, and opposite of Northport near the Happy Hour Bar called Gill's Pier. Long gone, and the annual ice has scrubbed the lake bottom of any timbers or evidence that it even existed. Only the road that dead ends near the site carrys the name.
I shot these in 1994 on Fuji Velvia. Camera was either a Nikon FM or a F3HP - lens was the Nikkor 35-105mm ais. The point of land is Paradisa Point, and in the summer the sun and moon rise from behind this Peninsula of land. I know these three shots were taken within a short period of time - a few days - same day?. Sunrise over Paradisa, Sunset at Northport bay, and Moonrise at Paradisa. They are all in one bay (1 & 3 looking left, #2 looking right)
Speaking of film:
Squeezed off about 6-8 frames this afternoon with some 20 year old expired Tri-X bulk loaded film. (to practice & get the rust out) I noticed two things. Every time I take a picture I look at the little metal square on the back of the Nikon FM body (that you are suppose to put the film box top in to remind you what film you are using) expecting there to be a screen. Yeah, gotta be patient - I haven't even got all the chemistry, nor plumbed the wet sink drain leak. The other thing I noticed is that a split image focusing screen is a wonderful thing. I sure missed that, and the small purring sound of brass gears on the film advance lever.
Yeah, gotta be patient - I haven't even got all the chemistry, nor plumbed the wet sink drain leak. The other thing I noticed is that a split image focusing screen is a wonderful thing. I sure missed that, and the small purring sound of brass gears on the film advance lever.
