On May 5, 2011, at 10:32 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > Wouldn't every thing be shifted blue if I was shooting "daylight" scenes on > Tungsten film? I think shifting everything blue is what I want.
Yes, but it's a kind of ugly blue that hangs like a pall over the entire image. I did it accidentally once or twice back in the day. An 80A filter used with daylight film in daylight will give you a similar look. Of course there's a filter factor of more than one stop, plus the degradation of the extra layer of glass. Paul > > What he was doing was shooting long exposure at night illuminated by the full > moon, which is nothing but daylight bounced back on the other side of the > world from the sun ... but shooting it on tungsten balanced color negative > film, rather than daylight film. > > That's the effect I'm wanting to recreate. > > > From: David Parsons > >> CTB gels would shift everything blue. You'd want to use a CTO to >> shift everything orange. >> >> Daylight balanced is much bluer than tungsten. >> >> It is available, it's just wicked expensive comparatively. >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Portra-100T-Tungsten-36/dp/B00005MEAX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304559253&sr=8-1 >> > > It says it's Tungsten Color Negative Film in the ad copy, but the > illustration is Plus-X pan which ain't, IYKWIM. > > Not sure what I'd actually get? > > Plus, I already have the CTB filters & a fridge full of film. > > >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:26 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> >> wrote: >>>> Saw an interesting presentation tonight. A photographer who was >>>> making long nighttime exposures on tungsten CN film. I liked what >>>> he was getting in his images. >>>> >>>> But tungsten balanced Color Negative films are longer available. >>>> >>>> Could a similar effect be obtained by using CTB filters to shoot >>>> on daylight balanced color negative film? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
