Fuji Pro 400H shot at both EI400 and EI200

[ted_smith]

Can anyone post links to, or upload, pictures that show a scene shot with Fuji Pro 400H at the suggested EI of ISO400 and then the same scene shot at the often used EI of ISO200.

I read Jose Villa (wedding photographer) does exactly this, so I assume all his shots on his website are pushed by one or maybe two stops. I'd like tosee what it looks like shot at the suggested EI before I waste a roll to see for myself. I've just ordered 5 rolls.

Ta

Ted

 

[Athiril]

Pushing is a development process, where you increase the amount of development taken place (usually by increased time) to compensate for underexposure.

Compensating for overexposing is called pulling.

Though neither would have taken place with most people overexposing C-41 1 stop, they normally wouldnt get a pull.

 

[B&Wpositive]

Villa is not push processing or pull-processing his film. He is simply rating it at between +1 and +2 EV (EI 200 to EI 100 for 400H).

Don't think that by doing this you are going to get the pastel colors that Villa gets (if you're after this effect). The look is actually due to the film scanner he uses. Richard Photo lab is well known for producing this effect; they have the same Fuji Frontier scanner.

That said, it's been accepted technique for a long time to downrate (overexpose) color negative film by 0.3 to 1.0 EV for better shadow detail, less grain, and stronger saturation. As the film ages or as you push process it, the amount od downrating necessary increases. For example, shooting 1 year expired Fuji 1600, I rate it at EI 800 and it comes out normally. If fresh, I'd rate the same film at EI 1250. The same film when fresh and push processed one stop gets rated at EI 2000.

Fresh color negative film of lower speed generally gets +0.3 EV. Many times, manufacturer's ISO ratings are not truthful, so a little plus EV is a safe bet in general with negative film. This plus EV results in a dense negative with better image quality. Far too many film shooters underexpose their film and produce crappy results.

If it were me, I'd shoot 400H at EI 320; possibly EI 250.

 

[Tim Gray]

I've not done it with 400H, but I do have some shots of a test scene in my flickr stream of the various Portras at different amounts of under and over exposure. Once you start getting up to +2 and higher, colors start to wash out some. I think Jose also stated that he shoots into the sun sometimes for that look as well.

My advice to you would be to take one of your rolls and play around with it. Shoot some shots of something with normal exposure and at +1, +2, +3, and +4. Get normal development. See what you like.

 

[DanielStone]

I shot this on 400h, rating it @ 160.

400h is a very nice film. It enlarges nicely, and has tremendous exposure latitude(great for scanning)

works very well for backlit shots, like the one above. The scan I did was just a quick one, but I know 100% that when I print this optically, the sky isn't blank white, I can pre-flash it to bring down the highlights about 1/2 stop or so, so there isn't any blank white(nasty) sky.

-Dan