Shooting Flowers in Film with Macro.
Let’s take pictures of flowers on film using a macro lens!
Many people use macro lenses to take pictures of flowers. Here are some photos I took using Macro lens with Film.
Camera is a single-lens reflex camera
The camera used will be a Canon EOS-1V, a film camera that was made for professionals. It is the current EOS-1D X series camera, and unfortunately it was discontinued about 5 years ago.
I used the EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM macro lens.
This time, all photos were taken in vertical composition. The photos were taken with three types of film: color negative, color reversal, and black-and-white.
- Taken with color negative film KODAK Portra160 ISO160
- Taken with color reversal film Fuji Velvia50 ISO50
- Taken with monochrome negative film ILFORD Pan-F50 ISO50
The characteristics of each film will be introduced while looking at the photos taken.
KODAK Portra160
KODAK Portra160 produces very soft pictures. The colors are a little warmer than they actually are, but this is what gives the picture its unique softness. （The background of the film is also very soft, which makes the subject stand out in the picture. This is another interesting feature of film.
Fuji Velvia50
Fuji Velvia 50 is a film that tends to produce vivid and flashy colors, which are called “memory colors. It is a film that is often used by people who take landscape photographs.
The first photo of a leaf looks somewhat like a photo you might see in a picture book, but I realized that the pictures in the botanical illustrated books I saw as a child were taken with reversal film at the time.
As is characteristic of film photography, shadows tend to fall off, and this is what gives the leaves their thickness.
ILFORD Pan-F50
The last image is ILFORD Pan-F50, a black-and-white negative film. Although it is a low-sensitivity film at ISO 50, it has a wide dynamic range and beautiful tones when taken in good light. Although it is rarely done, reducing the sensitivity to ISO 25 produces even softer tones.
Conclusion.
I believe that many people take pictures of flowers. There are many ways to take pictures, but I often shoot with a macro lens and film. I rarely take pictures of flowers because they inevitably end up looking the same, but when I look at the pictures I do take, they have a different charm than pictures taken digitally. You can take completely different photos with different film choices, so why not give it a try?
The Canon EOS-1V I used this time has been discontinued, so I did not introduce the Shop.
If you are interested in Canon EOS-1V or Nikon F6, it would be interesting to look for a used one.
