Veliva/K25...and Time Lapse Imaging

[JGoldenRRP@xxxxxxx]

Hey Irv Rivlin,
I enjoyed your informative posting on your experiences with film, on Photo
3-D. 

 I love Velvia myself.....and Kodachrome 25 is great when you can smack the
film with lots of light.

With slow, fine grain films like these.  I do a lot of time lapse
stuff.....and both these films create neat color shifts when you do those
long exposures.  Velvia really goes green....which can bee very cool with the
right subject. 
 I have an image: A huge turn of the cenntury aqueduct that had snow on it...
after a snowfall and the temp had risen to about 60 degrees,  nightime, and
it was very foggy.  The aqueduct justs shoots out in to the fog and
disappears....and there was a very powerfull quartz light that illuminates
the structure from the side, about 300 feet away....so I had lighting from
that....hitting from the hard left.  With Velvia....I took my Realist with
Steinheil wide angles, on a tripod....set it at f 22 and opened the shutter
for about four minutes.  While the shutters were open....I walked down the
aqueduct with my flash....and at points I would freeze for 10 seconds and
spot flash my hand only, in an open waving postition, then move on to another
location on the aqueduct. 

The final result is an eerie one.  The aqueduct looks like it is actually
underwater.....shooting off in to green murky darkness  (theres the color
shift)....with all these hands just floating in the picture...as if they were
swimming....very surreal!
Thats one  fun time of many that I have had with  slow film. 

Ciao for now! Jon Golden


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