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Be a Great Garden Photographer!
A Primer for Taking Good Pictures
by judywhite

Tips on Slide Film
for Garden Photography

  • Slide film varies in how it depicts colors. This means that you can shoot the same scene with different slide film, and the results can vary dramatically.
  • One of the most important colors in garden photography is green, so choose your film primarily based on how it shows up. Many slide films turn green very dark, with blackish tints. This is especially true of slide films that are used mostly to shoot people portraits. Green is rendered especially well with Fuji's Velvia professional film, a highly saturated type of slide film. A nice amateur alternative is Kodak's Elite 100 slide film.
  • Use good, branded low-ISO film, preferably with an ISO of 100 or less. High-speed film is pretty awful for flower photography; the colors just bleach right out. Low-speed film, such as ISO of 50 or 64 or (no more than) 100, takes longer in letting colors saturate your photos, which is good.
  • Try a side-by-side test of a number of types of slide film to see what suits your own personal tastes and what you prefer to shoot.
  • Kodachrome versus Fuji Velvia? Kodachrome 64 used to be the very standard for shooting garden photography. Today's color-pumped market, however, has turned its tastes toward Velvia, since its colors are more vivid. Oddly enough, if you take the same scene with Kodachrome 64 and with Velvia, you will look at the results and think, "Gee, that Velvia shot is exactly what I remember the scene looking like." But when you then hold both slides up to the scene, in actuality the color rendering in Kodachrome will be much closer to the reality. But your mind will have remembered the scene as the more vivid Velvia did! If you wish to publish your slides, more markets will prefer the Velvia look.

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