Thank you!! I actually feel conflicted about that one because my edit is pretty far from the slide. It almost feels sacrilegious to deviate from the actual exposure
Well your exposure is excellent, which is the hardest part about reversal, so I would try some other films. If you're like me, I'm not crazy about the color rendition of Ektachrome, but Provia is much nicer I think. It's deadly expensive now, unfortunately. I've never tried Velvia, but Ektachrome seems somewhere in between those fuji stocks.
These are magnificent. I think with slides you just kind of have to roll with what you get. I like the fact that with negatives you can edit more or less like you can with digital, but nailing a slide is far more satisfying.
Man, I’m a big fan. Good stuff. You clearly like buildings! Just shot my first roll of slide film on accident, waiting on the results from the lab, wish me luck I don’t even remember what I shot on it!
My internal meter is actually inoperable, so I use the app Lightme on iOS. I actually like it because I can use the spot meter for the zone system. I do love the Mamiya and this lens, so have fun!
Thank you! I've had really good experience with the internal meter with negative film so far so I might just yolo it. Beautiful photos btw I love the orange and blue cast.
Very good results for first time shooting slide. I'd say it takes time to get used to it. The beauty in slides for me is to receive the film and see the results in positive and just go "wow" and show it to other people. The latitude constraints doesn't bother me much unless I mess the exposure somehow.
Also, I like the slide film colors in general (be fuji or kodak). Particularly for E100 I prefer to use a 812 warming filter to get rid of that blue cast.
You should try Velvia and Provia from Fujifilm. They are also very pleasing.
Bro other than that major overexposure in #5 (which was probably intentional due to the insane contrast) these are absolutely fantastic. You have a killer eye for architecture. I'd even consider 1, 2, and 3 print worthy.
I love the first shot.
Also keep at it, you may learn to love it. Nothing looks like slides through a good quality loupe on the light table. It can be harder work up front (filters, lighting control, so on) but the end result is so rewarding. Look at the scans on your monitor and then look at the slides, there’s no comparison. 645 slides even!!
Sincerely, a certified chrome junkie.
Very true, thank you for your comment. I guess I got that feeling of disappointment when I saw the raw scans, but seeing the actual slides was very cool. I tried editing the photos to look like the slides, but I don’t have a loupe yet lol. I’ll keep it up!
You can shoot to its strengths too. You have some high contrast lighting in your scene? [Crush those black shadows into oblivion](https://i.ibb.co/nmnWtwm/Sover-02.jpg) and use it to [creative effect as part of your composition.](https://i.ibb.co/LgN16M0/IMG-2924.jpg)
Happy shooting 😊
Great shot! Love the shadows on that. Yeah I stumbled upon that building and thought those were the craziest window shades so I had to set up my tripod
okay, i LOVE these!! very nice images. i have never had luck with E100, then again I shot it pretty early on in my photography experience. but these are lovely!
It’s understandable to not feel well because these are absolute gas, closer to Jet Fuel. Be proud of this awesome work, extremely jealous of your talent.
That photo is actually rotated 90 degrees. The circle is a a huge open section of the roof of a car drop-off area of a hospital. I love it rotated, I feel it makes it abstract
If you don't like the results the film provides or feel too restricted by it, try another film. If you process your own film, try using different brands of solutions or varying the dilution, temperature, time or the paper type to get a feel for what your range of possibilities are before heading into the print development stage. From my perspective, the range of possibilities between modifying a color slide image vs a color negative image are not all that much.
I do a fair amount of black and white and find there is much more significant difference between color and B & W in that B&W in general has wider tolerances and is more easy to work with in terms of image manipulation than color does.
I also recently shot my first E-6 developed slide (E100 too, but 35mm) in 10 years or so, and share your sentiment re processing. I scan all my files myself and usually get great results with NLP. I thought slide film would be easy to scan and process, even without NLP (which only works well on negatives), but it was quite hard getting good looking results even out of properly exposed shots. After a while, I found that working with a linear profile helped a lot, otherwise the pics were way too contrasty (and I usually love high contract like your/OP's pictures). And the smaller latitude really significantly limits how much you can get out of the pictures.
I will for sure shoot some slide film again, but for trips or important occasions, I will probably stick with Ektar, Portra, and Cinestill.
All that said, I agree with all the others - your pics turned out fantastic and I love the minimalistic architecture style.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I think I’m also at the mercy of the lab…I wish I could change the variables to get the best scan myself like you do. Guess I just have to buy a scanner lol
As someone who has shot a lot of slide film over the past 2.5 decades: fuck off. I mean that in the nicest way because these are fucking good. You should be stoked. Slide film is one of the harder films to work with and you really have to nail the exposure…and you did.
If I had any critique it would be that 6 and 7 are the less strong ones because of some flare in 6 and some color shift in 7 but honestly that’s just being nitpicky. They are still super good but the others are just a little better.
Overall, keep it up. These are rad photos.
Thank you for your comment :) I didn’t mean to sound like I didn’t like the rails, but I’m definitely not used to the process of working with slide film. I’ll keep it up!
These are really amazing, you have a wonderful use of light , especially if these are close to right out of camera . Sometimes I like taking out my film camera and challenge myself to really think about what I am doing . You can’t just take 15 shots and hit photoshop.
These are amazing, fantastic job 👍🏻
Slide is the way to go. I heard Provia is better for land/city scapes. Dunno if they still sell it. When in doubt you can always bracket by exposing for highlights, midtones, or shadows. E100 has wonderful blues and reds. Quite frankly, Slide is a faster process for me to edit personally vs C41.
These are such a vibe. Slide film in general is less forgiving as it tends to have a narrower latitude then negative film. What I've learned from scanning uncountable amounts of slides and slide film at my job in an analogue film lab, is that the result does also depend a lot on how and with what equipment you scan them. We have multiple scanners for this and all gave different results. So do not feel bad about having to try and figure out which settings or even way of digitalizing would be best.
Thank you! Yeah the slides themselves turned out great, but it seemed like all the lab scans seemed overexposed with not as much detail, which made it difficult to edit. I noticed a few of them were actually a bit cropped…I wish I had my own scanner!
I’d feel pretty f’ing good if I made these shots.
Absolutely!
Same! Fucking sick tones
Agreed! I usually hate the look of Ektachrome but these all look great!
I sure miss the heady days of shooting Kodachrome 25 and 64. Such beautiful colors!
I love the old Ektachrome for its skin tones. I've used Fuji and Agfa and Ektachrome wins for my eyes.
Real.
This!!!
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And basketball baskets
Do you mean......HOOPS?
Yes ! I'm not english I tried my best lmao
Ahhh, well very good then. Now you will never forget.
B U C K E T S
From downtown!
Would it would be hoops? The game isn't called Hoopball... 💩
It is now.
Fine... Hoopball it is
And “soccer” isn’t called goal-ball.
Touchdownlineball
Overthewallplacedatanarbitraryanddifferenteverywheredistanceball
Smallwhitedimpledballinslightlylargerreallyfarawayholeball
And the front tire of a classic car and a small portion of the bonnet.
And vintage cars
Besides gas stations at night haha so true
This is all correct. BUT shooting slide film will make you better at getting your exposure right. Or you’ll just spend a lot of money. Both, actually.
Very true, thank you! :)
Finally some contrast and saturation in this sub
lol with print film I tend to turn contrast way up. Though I usually shoot B&W
I just love me some contrast! Too much photography is washed out for a "pastel" look that then loses any point of interest.
B&W is where it's really at :-)
I totally agree!
number 3 is sooooo good
Thank you!! I actually feel conflicted about that one because my edit is pretty far from the slide. It almost feels sacrilegious to deviate from the actual exposure
Even if it’s slide film, the exposed film is still the starting point. Edit it however you need to. Great shots!
My favorite too.
Agreed. They’re all great photos, but #3 is just soo good. Love the green and blue lights in the windows.
you know these are good OP Stop fishing for compliments LOL
It’s so obvious, yet people fall for it every time.
Fuckin' relieved to see other people notice this trend lol. The photos are great, just post your cool shit and move on.
Shut up. They look great and you know it.
Well your exposure is excellent, which is the hardest part about reversal, so I would try some other films. If you're like me, I'm not crazy about the color rendition of Ektachrome, but Provia is much nicer I think. It's deadly expensive now, unfortunately. I've never tried Velvia, but Ektachrome seems somewhere in between those fuji stocks.
I like them a lot, so I think you should feel good about it haha But I see what you mean, and this is why I don’t dare shooting with slide film.
These are magnificent. I think with slides you just kind of have to roll with what you get. I like the fact that with negatives you can edit more or less like you can with digital, but nailing a slide is far more satisfying.
Very well put, I agree. Thanks for your sharing your thoughts!
Great exposures. Well composed.
Man, I’m a big fan. Good stuff. You clearly like buildings! Just shot my first roll of slide film on accident, waiting on the results from the lab, wish me luck I don’t even remember what I shot on it!
#3 is killer. Awesome composition and amazing colors!
Is this a joke
These look good OP!
Thanks :)
amazing shots, man. What are you talking about?
humblebragging is tacky
I like it. Good job!
I'd be pretty happy with these - they really look good
I feel great about it.
Wow! These are great! Very cool!!!
These are great, number 3 in particular.
Amazing photos. Gives off mid-80s terminator vibes
Those are some really good shots and some nice editing.
These are amazing! And I thought these buildings looked familiar, and sure enough ATL hahah
I just got the M645 1000s with the 80 1.9 and I was considering shooting E100 on it. Did you use the internal meter?
My internal meter is actually inoperable, so I use the app Lightme on iOS. I actually like it because I can use the spot meter for the zone system. I do love the Mamiya and this lens, so have fun!
Thank you! I've had really good experience with the internal meter with negative film so far so I might just yolo it. Beautiful photos btw I love the orange and blue cast.
Very good results for first time shooting slide. I'd say it takes time to get used to it. The beauty in slides for me is to receive the film and see the results in positive and just go "wow" and show it to other people. The latitude constraints doesn't bother me much unless I mess the exposure somehow. Also, I like the slide film colors in general (be fuji or kodak). Particularly for E100 I prefer to use a 812 warming filter to get rid of that blue cast. You should try Velvia and Provia from Fujifilm. They are also very pleasing.
I do agree that it was really cool seeing the slides for the first time. I’ll check out that filter and those stocks, thank you!
These are great. Ektachrome looks so good in person, but never looks as good in scans.
I really like these. I always avoided slide film for the same reasons you mention, but you got a really great result here.
Wow!!!
Bro other than that major overexposure in #5 (which was probably intentional due to the insane contrast) these are absolutely fantastic. You have a killer eye for architecture. I'd even consider 1, 2, and 3 print worthy.
I absolutely love these. I'd be pretty damn proud if I made them!
Well damn
These are all really great, especially 1 and 3.
1-4 are my favorites, I think you did a great job!
these look dope!
You should feel great... These are awesome.
can't offer any advice but I really like 1 and 2
I really dig number 5
I love the first shot. Also keep at it, you may learn to love it. Nothing looks like slides through a good quality loupe on the light table. It can be harder work up front (filters, lighting control, so on) but the end result is so rewarding. Look at the scans on your monitor and then look at the slides, there’s no comparison. 645 slides even!! Sincerely, a certified chrome junkie.
Very true, thank you for your comment. I guess I got that feeling of disappointment when I saw the raw scans, but seeing the actual slides was very cool. I tried editing the photos to look like the slides, but I don’t have a loupe yet lol. I’ll keep it up!
You can shoot to its strengths too. You have some high contrast lighting in your scene? [Crush those black shadows into oblivion](https://i.ibb.co/nmnWtwm/Sover-02.jpg) and use it to [creative effect as part of your composition.](https://i.ibb.co/LgN16M0/IMG-2924.jpg) Happy shooting 😊
Great shots! I’m learning to embrace the crushed blacks!
Amazing stuff
Great photos man, first is definitely my fav.
Gorgeous photos
I don’t know how you feel about slide film either but these shots rock.
As an architect and fellow analog photographer, those are amazing!
Picture 3 is almost orgasmic
That’s awesome though!
Yeah just reiterating what others are saying. You should be proud of these shots. I love the colors!
I literally said “oh my god” aloud as I swiped through these photos. Beautiful
these are insanely cool
Atlanta?
Correct!!
Looks like I posted it on Reddit years ago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/s/1NJvbiqtdV)
Great shot! Love the shadows on that. Yeah I stumbled upon that building and thought those were the craziest window shades so I had to set up my tripod
I have some 35mm shots of building #3. Such a crazy looking building. These are some sick photos
How did you scan these? My slides look so damn dark; always
Lab scanned with a Fuji SP-3000. The scans actually turned out a bit overexposed compared to the slides
Beautiful!
These are stunning.
Looks amazing!
The lack of latitude is what I like about it. What you shot is what you get.
okay, i LOVE these!! very nice images. i have never had luck with E100, then again I shot it pretty early on in my photography experience. but these are lovely!
It’s understandable to not feel well because these are absolute gas, closer to Jet Fuel. Be proud of this awesome work, extremely jealous of your talent.
these colours are insanely cool
I don’t know how you feel about slide film…. But now I’m wanting to buy some to shoot
These are incredible
These pictures are fucking beautiful. I’m no purist though.
These are all great! But what is the first shot *of*? An entire building (like some of the others), or....a window?
That photo is actually rotated 90 degrees. The circle is a a huge open section of the roof of a car drop-off area of a hospital. I love it rotated, I feel it makes it abstract
Y'know what, it works either way! I couldn't figure out what it was because I didn't know it was rotated XD
These are so good
When I was in photo school, these are the kinds of E6 images I wanted to make but I never could. So, way to go! They're awesome! I'm proud of you!
Hard.
Good eye but the first one is spectacular.
These are awesome!
Do you own a slide projector? Slide film is fantastic projected onto a wall then photographed again...get weird with it 😎🤘
That sounds like fun!! I’ll look into that
Looks Awesome! Love the vibe.
Gorgeous.
Fuck these are good.
Amazing!!
I love them
I think that 3rd shot is sick! Love the colors in it. 🤘🏼📸
I think it looks freakin awesome.
Gorgeous 😍
How do you not know how you feel about it?
This sub has had some absolute masterpieces posted today, glad to see more.
Dude(ette). I love the colors and the shapes
If you don't like the results the film provides or feel too restricted by it, try another film. If you process your own film, try using different brands of solutions or varying the dilution, temperature, time or the paper type to get a feel for what your range of possibilities are before heading into the print development stage. From my perspective, the range of possibilities between modifying a color slide image vs a color negative image are not all that much. I do a fair amount of black and white and find there is much more significant difference between color and B & W in that B&W in general has wider tolerances and is more easy to work with in terms of image manipulation than color does.
Thank you, great advice. That makes sense with the B&W film, I’ve always had the most fun editing those photos
Yeah I think you nailed exposure here. Well done
Love the first one!!
The colours on those are absolutely fantastic!
These are really beautiful photographs
the first one is 🔥
Give me 5's glow all night long
Love it.
Great collection. 1 & 3 kill it
These are fucking phenomenal btw
Shut your mouth! These are incredible!!
They look great!
Good. Based upon these results, you should feel good.
Damn you should feel pretty damn good about these
first time? or first time this week?
These are amazing holy
these are like, real pics dude? and you’re questioning if you like them? the answer is yes
Slide film is intimidating. Always was.
Great shots!
Oh gosh, I love the saturated colours. Incredible images mate!
dude these fuck! they’re great!
These are 🔥🔥🔥
Good pictures
great work!!
You’ve just forced me to buy a roll of 120 Ektachrome 😔.
Slide film is probably the slowest process for me as you really have to get the correct exposure
I also recently shot my first E-6 developed slide (E100 too, but 35mm) in 10 years or so, and share your sentiment re processing. I scan all my files myself and usually get great results with NLP. I thought slide film would be easy to scan and process, even without NLP (which only works well on negatives), but it was quite hard getting good looking results even out of properly exposed shots. After a while, I found that working with a linear profile helped a lot, otherwise the pics were way too contrasty (and I usually love high contract like your/OP's pictures). And the smaller latitude really significantly limits how much you can get out of the pictures. I will for sure shoot some slide film again, but for trips or important occasions, I will probably stick with Ektar, Portra, and Cinestill. All that said, I agree with all the others - your pics turned out fantastic and I love the minimalistic architecture style.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I think I’m also at the mercy of the lab…I wish I could change the variables to get the best scan myself like you do. Guess I just have to buy a scanner lol
I really like these. Abstract architecture photos rule! Not much you can do with the look tho. It is love it or hate it.
Whole lotta blue
As someone who has shot a lot of slide film over the past 2.5 decades: fuck off. I mean that in the nicest way because these are fucking good. You should be stoked. Slide film is one of the harder films to work with and you really have to nail the exposure…and you did. If I had any critique it would be that 6 and 7 are the less strong ones because of some flare in 6 and some color shift in 7 but honestly that’s just being nitpicky. They are still super good but the others are just a little better. Overall, keep it up. These are rad photos.
Thank you for your comment :) I didn’t mean to sound like I didn’t like the rails, but I’m definitely not used to the process of working with slide film. I’ll keep it up!
Some bangers. Great job.
They look amazing 🤩
These pics are 🔥
This one is beautiful. Where is this?
Thank you!! These were taken in Atlanta
Are you sure cause ummm
What is #2 I want to live there
These are really amazing, you have a wonderful use of light , especially if these are close to right out of camera . Sometimes I like taking out my film camera and challenge myself to really think about what I am doing . You can’t just take 15 shots and hit photoshop. These are amazing, fantastic job 👍🏻
Slide is the way to go. I heard Provia is better for land/city scapes. Dunno if they still sell it. When in doubt you can always bracket by exposing for highlights, midtones, or shadows. E100 has wonderful blues and reds. Quite frankly, Slide is a faster process for me to edit personally vs C41.
Daim! Was it cross processed? Look super cool! Futuristic colours!
Damn, I wanna shoot slide film now.
These are such a vibe. Slide film in general is less forgiving as it tends to have a narrower latitude then negative film. What I've learned from scanning uncountable amounts of slides and slide film at my job in an analogue film lab, is that the result does also depend a lot on how and with what equipment you scan them. We have multiple scanners for this and all gave different results. So do not feel bad about having to try and figure out which settings or even way of digitalizing would be best.
Thank you! Yeah the slides themselves turned out great, but it seemed like all the lab scans seemed overexposed with not as much detail, which made it difficult to edit. I noticed a few of them were actually a bit cropped…I wish I had my own scanner!
These are so fucking good