A bit of an image dump today, gathering up all the pictures of cars and bikes that I photographed at this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally. Again, the shots are a mixture of Kodak Portra 160 and Kodak Ektar images.
I still have some more pictures from the event yet to come – perhaps a couple more medium format colour shots, and then a bunch of B&W 35mmj pictures.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Three shots of the same Studebaker pickup truck, each taken at different times and in changing light as I wandered around the vehicles on display at the steam rally. The first two on Kodak Portra 160, the last on Kodak Ektar.
Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
When I visited the Sheffield Steam Rally back in June, I noticed that some people had been given leaflets for “The Haxey Feast”, another vintage rally taking place at the village of Haxey in North Lincolnshire. Having never visited this before and as it’s not too far away, I marked it in my diary.
It was a much smaller event than the Sheffield Steam Rally but it’s quite a new thing, being in just its second year (according to someone that I talked to who had a display), so it will hopefully grow in coming years, especially now that the Lincoln Steam Rally is no more.
I shot three rolls of medium format film with my Fujica GW690 while there: one Kodak Ektar, one Fuji Pro 160NS, and one Fuji Velvia 50. The pictures shared today are from the latter.
I don’t shoot a lot of medium format reversal film, although I have quite a few rolls, and it can be tricky to get the metering right. I don’t think I’ve done too bad a job here, although maybe the shadows are a little dark, but I guess Velvia 50 is pretty tricky in that regard. I’ll try to shoot more reversal film if I get a chance when the autumn colour comes through more.
There are a few other shots from this roll that look nice too, but I got some scanning artifacts and haven’t had chance to re-scan them yet.
I believe the cars are, in order of appearance: a Chevrolet Stylemaster, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, a group of Beach Buggies (is there a collective noun for these? 🙂 ), and a Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL.
Fujica GW690 & Fujichrome Velvia 50. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I’m really happy with the colours I got from this roll of Ektar. Coupled with the GW690 and the fact that the 6×9 negatives allow for a noticeable shallow depth of field even at f/5.6, these were a great set of pictures to behold when they came off the scanner.
I have more pictures from this year’s rally shot with my Olympus OM-10, but I’ve not uploaded any of them to Flickr yet, so they will wait for a later day.
Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I wrote a few days ago about how I’ve been having difficulties scanning a roll of Velvia 100 that I shot at the steam rally last weekend. I’ve scanned Velvia 50 before and was similarly granted with the same red-cast that I got this time, although on this occasion I’ve also had problems with the actual exposure of the scans – some images looking under-exposed in comparison with the physical transparencies. The under-exposure issue is something that I’ll have to atempt to rectify in Lightroom, but at least I seem to have found a working solution to the red-cast problem.
After carrying out all my post processing in Lightroom, I always open the final image in Photoshop to add a white border. This time, as well as adding the border, I also used the Auto-colour option in the Image menu. I don’t usually find that this does a great job – it tends to be hit and miss on the occasions I’ve used it in the past – but for these Velvia 100 scans it works a treat. Hopefully this will mean I’ll get much more satisfactory images from the roll than I’d feared.
This picture of a slightly rusted Ford Popular has come out very nicely. I used a polariser for most shots on the roll, and it’s really deepened the sky for this photo.
A couple of photos of a nicely painted Ford Popular which I came across while out and about a few weeks ago. The first shot was taken through the railings which, given the GW690 is both large and a rangefinder, meant it was a little difficult to frame the image. I poked the lens barrel between the bars so I knew they wouldn’t be in the shot, but I was still a little concerned about parallax error. I think it came out ok though.
Steel City Snapper photography 