Extremely contrast situation

[Shinnya]

Hi,

I am trying to take pictures of my friend's installation piece in this furniture store. My friend made a cube out of resin where tree root is inside.

I went to see the setting yesterday. There is a huge south-facing window as in an old factory building and she wants to shoot it when the light is hitting her objects.

So, it will be a quite contrasty situation here. How am I going to tame the contrast in color processing? Can I do like N- development in color processing?

Thank you for your input in advance.

Warmly,
Tsuyoshi

 

[Pinholemaster]

No, you need to use fill lighting to adjust the contrast range to the film, but not wash away the direction light that she want.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

The correct way to handle this situation is to use (as mentioned in post above) fill lighting, or even better, large reflector cards just outside of the view you are capturing, to bounce light back into the shadow side of the scene. If you use reflector "fill" then your overall exposure does not change from whatever exposure your "key" light source is producing.

 

[c6h6o3]

Can I do like N- development in color processing?

Yes you can if you're using EPY. You might not need it, however, since this film has much longer scale than its daylight balanced brethren. For each stop of N- development, give 1/2 stop additional exposure. If you don't do this you risk your shadows going green.

You can't do minus development with color negative film, but here again you may not need it. Try Portra 100T and you may be pleasantly surprised at the results.