I pushed portra 400 in super low light ... these are the results
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2022
- Winter in london means very little daylight and a lot of night, thus a lot of low light shooting. I took my pentax 67 and shot a couple of rolls of portra 400 and pushed them one stop. some of the results were great. portra 400 is a great night time film stock.
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0:21 mini movie
1:37 what is pushing?
2:50 street photography
3:58 low light scenes
5:37 extended development time
6:24 examples of pushing
7:34 do i recommend pushing? - Věda a technologie
It's also good to know that, if you are like me, shooting Kodak 200 and realizing halfway through the film, that your camera is set to ISO 400 you can still save your Images. :D
haha yup!
The results from this photoshoot are brilliant!
Thank you!! 😀
Great video, great advice! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Nice video! I love pushing Fuji Superia 400 to 800 at home. It comes out exceptionally well - and is perfect for street photography and way cheaper than portra 800 where I am.
I’ve heard from some lab techs that it’s actually better to just lift your scans in post and not push your film at all to retain tonality (referring specifically to portra 400) do you have any experience with this?
Keep up the great work man!
never tried it but thats a good idea! especially for street
Great photos. I push Kodak Gold 200 to 800 and the results are verry good (most of the time). An ND2 filter will probably help to shoot the pushed film at daytime. I become test it. Thanks for the tip with the fresh developer. Hopefully it will help to reduce orange and blue cast/ clouds on negativs that I have sometimes.
yea its good to try with different film stocks!
Last summer I pushed a roll of portra 400 (and another roll of ultramax) to 1600 iso on 35mm. I was really pleased with the results I got from both (obviously being portra more fine grained even at 1600).
yea that sounds great! id like to try that
Nice video. It’s interesting to see the difference between the motion shots on video vs. the stills on film. When it comes to pushing, I push Fomapan 100 to 200 and develop in Rodinal for 8 1/2 minutes. This get’s me to contrast I like. I’ve never much liked Ilford HP5, but I just shot some at 1600 and when pushed in Rodinal, the contrast actually looks like something I can use. I’ve never pushed C41 although I did do some mild pushing of Provia in the early 2000’s which can give it a nice crisp look.
yea its always nice to see the comparison. sometimes digital can't be beat
I always look forward to your next video, thx! If you want absolute magic pushing black and white film, shoot Tri-x one to two stops fast and develop in Diafine. I used to do that a lot back when there were dim bars packed full of people, lots of latitude to be sloppy and it all still just works out. I guess we don't live in that world anymore though, lol.
Really appreciate it! Pushing tri-x is def a great idea … I gotta try it!
I pushed Portra 400 one stop a couple of times in sad cloudy days. The boost in contrast and saturation is very noticiable and images have more punch, the downside part is that you can loose some of the good color balance. Skin tones could be a bit off (redish) for example.
Yea definitely. Skin tones suffer when it’s not rated box speed
Great video
thanks for watching
Nice!
I will happily push a hp5 or say a tri-x to 1600 and be happy with the results!
I haven't pushed colour film yet, maybe this year when the spring light arrives and I want to get the effect on the contrast and colours that happens when pushing a colourful c41 film!
yea with BW its even better!
Have you been looking in my head! The other day I picked up one of my Zeiss Ikon Nettars it had film in it (b&w) I presumed it was 400 and set my iPhone meter app to asa 400. When I’d finished the roll and took it out I found it was Ilford FP4 ( an old one actually), I developed it as 400film no additional times for pushing it and it turned out fine. Mind you I haven’t printed it yet ( need more paper developer as my one had gone off), but the negs look good. Ilford FP4 is a very forgiving film so it HP5, so I wasn’t bothered that I’d pushed it by accident
haha we are in sync! yea, i find for BW you can play around even more, since you don't have to worry about color
Another great video Ribsy, and there’s is something inherently right about Portra in low light. You can push part rolls but need to stand develop, I have done it with B&W where I’d pushed half a roll of FP5 by 1stop but the rest was at box speed. I’m sure it would work in colour as well. Would find something cheaper than Portra to try it though 😀
interesting. will have to try that
You can stand develop color film??!!! If so, this deserves its own CZcams series, and I want to start home developing color!! There's nothing more satisfying than dropping film in 1:100 rodinal, walking away and having a beer or two, and coming back an hour or so later to perfect dense negatives with surreal glow around the edges of stuff!
thanks v helpful!! rip superia 800 😢
yea wish that still existed!
Such an informative video that I had to leave a comment. I shall be subscribing also.
thanks for watching
Gonna give my Portra 400 leftovers a try at night after seing this. My go to low light film is usually Lomo 800, because you can't beat the price😅 But I successfully pushed 120 Cinestill 800T to 3200 and was very impressed with results.
Where are you and how much is a roll of Lomo 800? I bought my first roll of it last year, and it was $16.50 hear in Canada.
@@segzeeman7356 I'm in Seattle and I buy a pack of 3 (120mm) for about $27 USD in my local store or from lomo website. It's the cheapest 800 film so far.
yea they should all push at least well. cinestill is kodak vision3 and that can def handle pushing
Sick! Been wanting to try thi
you should do it!
Have you ever tried pushing Ektar to 400? It's got like quite a pleasant contrasty look and the fine grain stops it from getting too noisy :)
I haven’t but I should! Good call
Another great video as always, but are you OK you didn't mention Leica once ? : )
Lol I still have it
I have a Nikonos V. Obviously, the deeper I dive - the more of an issue light is (I just use ambient light, no strobes). I’ve tried pulling Delta 3200 to 1600 (highest ISO on the camera) and pushing HP5 to 1600. The HP5 works really well pushed and is cheaper than the Delta 3200. (B&W film means I don’t need to worry about colour shifts underwater or yucky green water).
yea its good to experiment and find what you like!
I stand develop with Rodinal (even CN film). That allows me to push or pull on the same roll!
Second person to mention that - intriguing
fun fact. the Exakta line of cameras can shoot from cassette to another cassette, and have a built-in knife to cut the film. so I do have the option of pushing only half a roll, without any hassle beyond doing two dev batches!
Interesting. Never heard it
Hi Matt, glad you mentioned the Exakta because I wanted to do this too. :) You can also use the knife with normal 35mm rolls of film and not only with the bulk load cassettes. I haven't been aware of the built-in knife until some months ago, when my dad showed me this special feature. @Ribsy On the Exaktas there is a screw on the button plate on the right hand side which allows you to loosen the cutter/knife for use. I would make a very little cut, like 2mm, when I start to underexpose and just pull the cutter a tiny bit to get a mark on the edge of the film. (You feel when the knife hits the film when you're careful.) The mark easily shows where to cut in the darkroom or changing bag.
Great pictures! Love especially the Portra shots.
Follow-up Video idea --- Pushed film with Flash!!!
yea def!
You actually can shoot the first half of the roll at box and then push the second half when your light levels get low and develop it all together with the added time as film in general and color film in particular is pretty forgiving to over-exposure. In fact you tend to get better color fidelity in general when over-exposing color film. In scanning after push development you likely see very little difference between your pushed and non-pushed shots (exceptions of course for scenes & situations where it’s light dominant such as shooting into the sun/sky or white/extra bright clothing like a wedding dress).
yea im sure the normally exposed shots can handle it. but some people like to keep things real tight haha
Dude, is that Anastasiia Fedorova ? If so you just leveled up in my book.
nope not her haha. i don't know who that is
Try Portra 800 to push to 3200 please
will do!
Once I had to shoot Tmax 400 and Delta 400 at.... 3200 iso. Resuts were usable, but the contrast was insane. I've only seen scans from these rolls and didn't try to print that stuff and I don't think that these images will look too good if I will try to do that.
Portra 400 @ 800 looks fine to me and some people even say that portra 400 pushed to 800 looks cleaner than the portra800 itself. FIlms like Tri-X, T-Max, Hp5 and even Agfa APX 400 can be pushed 2 stops and that will be fine. With color films that's not always a good idea. I've also tried pushing kodak gold to 400 and with one roll that was shot during sunset photos were quite good, but on the other roll that was shot at noon, images were too contrasty IMO. Superia 400 can be pushed to 800, but sometimes you get too muddy shadows....There green shadows look terrible.. Some people managed to get decent colors from C200 that was pushed to 800, but some of my photos had an ugly magenta cast on them, while some looked okay.
If I had to choose the most flexible films for pushing I would name Portra 400 and pretty much any professional BW film
Thanks for the video :)
yea portra 400 makes sense. i think you can also get away with this more in medium format
Yo! Superia be acting funny and ugly sometimes in normal situations. It’s definitely got the ugliest colourcast in the shadows/ under exposure.
Rate iso at the next number, if 100 speed film shoot at 200. If 200 rate it at 400. If 400 rate at 800. if 800 rate at 1600. If 1600 speed film rate at 3200. Those are examples of pushing +1 stop pushing +2 stops would be rating 400 speed film at 1600iso. My experience with pushing started off crappy but got so much easier after a while.
yup i did portra 400 at 800
Bottom-line - Portra 400 not suitable in low light conditions
disagree