Regardless of wherever I am in the world, I’ll always have a camera and a roll of film with me. At the same time, which every country Im traveling or visiting, I’ll always be on the look out for colour, something Im automatically drawn to. The more vivid the colours the better and that’s why I pre select my film stocks in advance to ensure I get the best out of what I shoot. I will of course capture the odd travel related image, as above and shot on Kodak Gold 200, but I generally like to seek out a varied range of subjects that interest me.
So, film stock choice’s for this trip, Sicily in this case, were Ektar, Kodak Gold 200 and Portra 400. I took both 35mm and 120 as I enjoy shooting across most formats and it always good to see the slightest differences on 35, 6x6 & 6x7 with the same stocks.
The above shot as I remember was shot on my Pentax 6x7 with a roll of Portra. Shot about 6am that morning just as the sea mist was still sitting there giving the sky a slight grey tone to it which I liked. The shot would of course been somewhat different if I’d shot it about a hour later when the blue Sicilian sky opened up. Still, here the colour came through well
A classic example of Ektar here I think. A stock that loves vivid colours. It has a lovely richness to it and really shines once you capture striking colours and tones such as these Sicilian fishing nets. I shot this image on my Hassy, a camera which has the most outstanding 85mm Ziess lens Ive ever used. Super pin sharp time after time. By the way, I dont use Photoshop, nor do I use Lightroom, filters or other re touch software. I simply dont have it, never had it and I never will. As we photographers like to say, straight out of the box. Why shoot something then take it home and play around with it. Other opinions are available of course but these are mine
The gallery Ive enclosed below features a few more shots I took on this trip, on all formats with all those stocks I love to work with
