Have You Been shooting With Ektachrome - Because You Can't Get Ahold Of Any Velvia?

[loccdor]

Many painters put a blue tinge into shadows on sunny days in their paintings. If it's done in the right amount, it can make the image more visually deep. Some of it depends on the feeling you want to invoke.

For portraits, I like warmth, generally. But I can imagine having a very serious-faced portrait where you'd want to emphasize the coldness. Just an example. My father has a very serious-mood painted portrait in his home which is entirely painted with blue, black, and white.

 

[koraks]

Many painters put a blue tinge into shadows on sunny days in their paintings.

Because it's really there!

These works all precede the advent of (practical, widespread) color photography. These guys were looking at color very intently!

 

[Milpool]

I shoot Ektachrome because I can't shoot Kodachrome.

Both great.

As for color rendering, I would guess the majority of people still using transparency film are scanning it so this can be fairly easily adjusted.

 

[MattKing]

There's a very powerful Photoshop-like engine continuously at work in our heads

And it is subscription free!
The other thing I would do if I was @DF is I would examine how I was viewing the final results.
If you are using something other than a halogen projection bulb in a projector, you aren't viewing the film in the environment it was intended to be viewed in.
Of course, that "in-head Photoshop" can deal with some of that as well.

 

[Truzi]

Years ago there was a similar discussion regarding Ektachrome and blue shadows. I believe it was a post by Drew that made me pay attention IRL.

We are quick to adjust visually, so I had to deliberately make quick glances to notice - but I did. Blue shadows everywhere. At first it was interesting because I never really noticed before, I just let my eyes and brain do their thing. Then it got annoying because I couldn't not notice it.

I'm much better now.

 

[loccdor]

Because it's really there!

These works all precede the advent of (practical, widespread) color photography. These guys were looking at color very intently!

Yes, it's certainly there, you can see it on digital cameras as well. In the images you posted, it's being emphasized especially.

Because the sky is blue. Shade is not being lit by the sun, but only by the blue sky.

Van Gogh was a remarkable painter, I think he must have had mild visual hallucinations going on in his brain all the time, but which were based on and drawing from things that actually existed.

 

[koraks]

Van Gogh was a remarkable painter, I think he must have had mild visual hallucinations going on in his brain all the time, but which were based on and drawing from things that actually existed.

Well, who knows; you're certainly not the first to suggest it. I personally suspect that the combination of being inspired by the bold color choices in Japanese woodblock prints and his admiration for people like Gauguin made him actually look differently (and more closely) at colors in reality. Note that his earlier work before he moved to Paris is often in a muted, mostly brown and ocher palette, quite sombre and dark. The same attention to details in how light played on his subjects was there, and no sign of any abnormal color interpretation. Anyway, we digress...and at the same time seem to agree on the color choices being based on what's really there. I might say...

Then it got annoying because I couldn't not notice it.

....for better or worse!