January 2016 Portraits

[jp]

Early B&L Tessar 1C on expired Portra 100T, 8x10:

Excellent! You made it worth burning that film once in a while.

[RHITMrB]

Thank you David. It was fun shooting such a large piece of color film, a first for me. The people at the developing company kept "oohing and aahhing" when I picked it up. To me....it's a very expensive way to shoot color. But I had the film, and must use it before it's too late.

I was quite worried about the colors too, since this was the Tungsten version of Portra. I used a no. 6 compensation gel filter, behind the Tessar barrel lens. First time trying out that lens too. So it was all a fun experiment.

Those colors are quite nice. When you say a "no. 6" I take it that's a Wratten #6, "light yellow"? I have some Portra 100T I need to use for other purposes now that my area has made the switch to LED streetlights.