My Life on 35mm #5 | Superia 400 July 2018

And finally we have come to the post on Superia 400. I've talked about it so much that I feel like it's been a long time coming.

Superia ended up on my list of must tries because Coley (@bonjourcoley on Instagram) and I have been talking about how much she loves it for months now. Annoyingly I could never find it anywhere, but finally I came across one lonely roll at Photogear. Since then Photo Warehouse have restocked and have heaps, but I was still very excited finding that one roll randomly one day.

I shot this whole roll over 2 days and 2 Pokemon walks around Auckland with Sampford (working hard huh). Thus they feature a bit of random architecture, a few detail shots, and a handful of photos of Sampford either posing or pulling annoyed faces at me. Such is our friendship.

I really enjoyed the colours on this roll, and it's amazing the difference I noticed between my Superia shots and Coley's. I asked her for one or two of her shots to use as a comparison in this post and she graciously complied.

I'm not sure if it was just because I was so used to the heavy green tones of Portra, but a lot of my shots ended up looking really red. In some cases, it's less noticeable than in others. The skin tones especially it seemed to be more prevalent.

Overall I enjoyed shooting it - I think generally I like the look a little more than Portra, but I do think they have their different uses. I know that seems like a super obvious response, but I've started making decisions based on activity. I went out on a yacht on Saturday and took the camera with Portra in it to see what it did with the water because I think the blues will look awesome.

As always, none of these shots have had their colours modified. The only adjustments, if any, are minor exposure adjustments.

That being said, I don't think I did exposure on this roll because there are a few underexposed shots there.

Excuse that, I promise I'm real good with a camera haha.

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I did a few intentional comparison shots so I could see what they look like in each scenario. What baffles me is that the Superia shots look so much bluer in the shadowy areas of my garden, and warm and lovely in the rest of the roll, and my portra shots, a lot of which look very green and blue and moody, look almost warm toned in the garden and warmer when underexposed or in dark areas (as shown in my last post). It gave me a little more appreciation for Portra I think, which is why in my last post I was a bit more appreciative of it in general I think. Having something to compare helps when you're trying to figure it all out.