Flowers on Film I

Flowers on Film I. I’ve been ‘rummaging’ through my dusty old hard drives, and resurrecting images that I captured on film more than six years ago. This flower close-up was captured on Kodak Ultracolor film (ASA 100) and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V. I loved Kodak Ultracolor because it was negative film and easily processed by any 1 hour film processor. It was also a tightly grained film with great color. Negative film has a dynamic range that still beats the best of current DSLR cameras. This image was shot with a reliable old Minolta XD5 film SLR. I don’t remember the lens I used. I had a number of old Kiron and Vivitar Series 1 lenses that I used back then with good results. My film workflow was as follows: Go to Rio Grande Botanic Garden (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and shoot a roll of film (I lived in Albuquerque for a few years). Drive to local Walmart for one hour film processing. Eat dinner. Go back to Walmart, pick up processed film. Stay up much later than I should scanning and tweaking negatives and uploading images to my web site.