Velvia 100F- What to shoot with it?

[GarageBoy]

I have 2 rolls left of the redheaded stepchild of the Velvia line- what looks best on it?

 

[DREW WILEY]

Certainly not redheaded stepchildren, especially if they have acne!

 

[wildbill]

boats & hoes

 

[Sirius Glass]

Shoot it with a camera for best results.


Siriusly, fall colors with water falls.

 

[Stephen Schoof]

I usually shoot landscapes and found it pretty good for snow scenes, spring foliage, green forest scenes, etc - if the light was overcast. I also liked it for dusky city and town scenes (like this one). For fall colors it could range from okay to appalling. For the typical 'golden light' Velvia landscape shot, or 'magenta twilight' Velvia landscape shot, it all seemed to depend on the colors, contrast etc. present in the scene. The stars really had to align to get something I was excited about in those conditions, but it could be okay. I was really glad when Velvia 50 was reintroduced, because I wasn't wild about Velvia 100 no-F either. I've got a few rolls of 100F in the freezer that I use for gray-ish city scenes in cloudy light, where the film behaves predictably enough.

 

[GarageBoy]

I'm in NYC- and learned that bricks walls and brownstones during golden hour look freakishly muddy on some of my slides with Velvia 100F- Perhaps a fashion shoot with colorful clothing?

 

[Les Sarile]

Desert landscapes . . .

Air races . . .

I would think pale skin would benefit from this film's color palette if not high key. Colorful clothing - reflective/shiny, will get enhanced treatment.

 

[lhalcong]

Like many I had been fan of Velvia 50 for many years. One day I saw Velvia 100F , if I understood right the F was for Fidelity. Faithful, in which case I thought it was contradictory to the nature of Velvia Saturated colors ... I gave it several tries. I still wonder what the purpose was to create Velvia 100F , if I wanted faithful color there was Provia 100F or other Fuji Films . My experience was; if I scanned a Velvia 50 slide , then bumped up the saturation adjustment a bit, I would get fantastic colors out of it. When doing this same thing to Velvia 100F , the results were not as satisfactory to me. To my taste, it did not produce pleasant saturated colors.

 

[Meyer Trioplan]

I have a few rolls left as well, and the one thing I've found it does fairly well is night time bulb exposures in the city at twilight. I'm not a big fan of it on most sunlit scenes as the colors get a bit washed and unmanageable.

 

[Les Sarile]

My experience was; if I scanned a Velvia 50 slide , then bumped up the saturation adjustment a bit, I would get fantastic colors out of it. When doing this same thing to Velvia 100F, the results were not as satisfactory to me. To my taste, it did not produce pleasant saturated colors.

I can't imagine this so perhaps you can share an image from Velva that you had to bump up.