Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 07:42:42 -0500 (EST) From: Perry Malouf <pmalouf@access.digex.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg391$foo@default> Subject: Re: Photographing Plants
Edward Guilding asked:
> I have a few questions regarding photographing plants in habitat
> (_Nepenthes_ etc).
> 1. What is the best film for doing such work, I have used Fuji SuperG Plus
> 200 in the past...I am looking at getting Kodak 400 Gold this time
> around to take better low light pictures and hopefully capture the
> colors correctly. Any input/experience?
I used Kodak 400 Gold for all photographs, when I went to Kinabalu Park.
A flash was still necessary when taking closeup shots under the
forest canopy, despite the fact that it was broad daylight. (I used
a zoom lens to really get some good shots of Nepenthes pitchers.)
Kodak 400 Gold rendered the colors true. However, if I get a chance
to do this sort of thing again, I would use _color slide_ film. This
is because: 1) you can show them to an audience that way, and 2) it's
easier to make prints from slides rather than the vice versa.
In fact, there is a special process for making impeccable posters from
slides; you can't use the process to make posters from negatives.
But, maybe for me it's better that way--I would have drained my
bank account in making so many posters :-)
Regards,
Perry Malouf
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