These are shots from last week, following up from my post containing images from that same morning. I must have been feeling particularly trigger happy that day because a roll of Velvia will normally last me a full weekend. I’m still somewhat new to Velvia and getting used to how it renders colours and deals with dynamic range (especially when compared to negative films). I do love it though and it’s always a hard decision for me whether to load up a roll of Ektar or this. Anyway, here are four shots I particularly liked. All shot with the Olympus OM-4 + Olympus OM Zukio 21mm f2 / 135mm f/2.8 on Fujichrome Velvia 100. No processing on any of these shots – just straight out of the Nikon Coolscan 5000.

Shot of the Seattle Spaceneedle at night. This was handheld at about 1/2s – 1/4s. Automatic metering from the OM-4 with some exposure compensation (-1EV if I recall). I like how Velvia handles the street lights making them somewhat outer wordly. Would look horrible against skin tones I am sure but quite cool here

Seattle… House windows lit up by a bright yellow sunset

Birds… that’s one of the towers of the construct at Gasworks Park. I like this shot even thought is blurry, etc.

Sunset. That’s the Spaceneedle in the distance and Queen Anne on the right. I like the remarkably fast drop off in light towards the bottom half of the image (that’s the slide film effect).