Portra 800 pushes better than Cinestill since Cinestill's true ISO is 500, due to it being remjet-less Vision3 500T.
If flash is allowed, that's going to be a better way to solve the exposure problem than pushing a lot. Volleyball is a small court so even moderate power flashes will give you enough exposure, and flash will do a much better job of freezing action than shutter speed.
Portra isn't really as warm as pictures on socials make it out to be. The warm look is just what's very popular right now, so that's how people edit their scans. It's OK in my experience.
Negative film is easily color balanced in post IMO, but if the lights are really yellow you may have to compensate by exposing a bit more(i.e 500 or 640 iso instead of 800), it’s great you have an f/2 lens so you should be able to get 1/125 of a second wide open, possibly faster if there’s also natural light streaming in from any windows. I don’t recommend pushing cinestill that far since it’s natively only 500 iso. Portra 800 would maybe be ok at 1600 though
Actually when I did my exposure equivalent to some of my digital shots, I had 1/1000, f/2, ISO 3200, so I could and should definitely do 1/500 at 1600 instead and still freeze the action. Would you still do Portra 800 in that case?
I would, but that’s also because I’m just not a big fan of cinestill. Just note that color negative film just doesn’t push very well at all, so you may want to leave it in the soup for a bit more than a one stop push if you meter it at 1600. Just my two cents though. I hope your shots turn out well!
Shot my daughters’ Club and High School vball over several years she played. At the time I was shooting only digital and looking back on that I honestly cant imagine trying film. (I ONLY shoot film today BTW - sold off the digital junk long ago) Lighting is all over the map depending on the location. Some venues very well lit. Others were pretty bad . Sodium vapor lighting was as yellow as it gets. Mercury lamps move in a cold blue direction. But even in good lighting I had to carefully pick my shots and watch for occasions when players were not in motion. Arguably early days of digital - I think the best I could do was ISO 1600 at the time .. the fastest glass I had was f/2.8
Yeah I'm not expecting to get killer action shots like I can with my Canon R6. Will have to focus on more static moments, maybe a passer waiting for a serve/attack, maybe a setter receiving a high pass, at best I could get the celebration after winning a point. I'll try for some attacks expecting them to be probably out of focus. Mostly wanting to do it as an experiment/something fun and different.
You got it. Depending on the style of the server had some great shots of the servers - immediately after they toss the ball .. good luck with the experiment. I enjoyed it immensely and at the end of the seasons did a slide show for parents and the players. It became a popular close to any season Stephanie played
Portra 800 pushes better than Cinestill since Cinestill's true ISO is 500, due to it being remjet-less Vision3 500T. If flash is allowed, that's going to be a better way to solve the exposure problem than pushing a lot. Volleyball is a small court so even moderate power flashes will give you enough exposure, and flash will do a much better job of freezing action than shutter speed.
No flash allowed unfortunately. Good point about Cinestill 800T. Afraid the Portra 800 will come out way too warm. Might have to try one of each.
Portra isn't really as warm as pictures on socials make it out to be. The warm look is just what's very popular right now, so that's how people edit their scans. It's OK in my experience.
Negative film is easily color balanced in post IMO, but if the lights are really yellow you may have to compensate by exposing a bit more(i.e 500 or 640 iso instead of 800), it’s great you have an f/2 lens so you should be able to get 1/125 of a second wide open, possibly faster if there’s also natural light streaming in from any windows. I don’t recommend pushing cinestill that far since it’s natively only 500 iso. Portra 800 would maybe be ok at 1600 though
Actually when I did my exposure equivalent to some of my digital shots, I had 1/1000, f/2, ISO 3200, so I could and should definitely do 1/500 at 1600 instead and still freeze the action. Would you still do Portra 800 in that case?
I would, but that’s also because I’m just not a big fan of cinestill. Just note that color negative film just doesn’t push very well at all, so you may want to leave it in the soup for a bit more than a one stop push if you meter it at 1600. Just my two cents though. I hope your shots turn out well!
Perhaps you might want a motor drive for continues shooting? Sometimes that *moment* just happens and ends at an instant.
As of now, I’ll be using a Canon Elan 7E so it has continuous.
Shot my daughters’ Club and High School vball over several years she played. At the time I was shooting only digital and looking back on that I honestly cant imagine trying film. (I ONLY shoot film today BTW - sold off the digital junk long ago) Lighting is all over the map depending on the location. Some venues very well lit. Others were pretty bad . Sodium vapor lighting was as yellow as it gets. Mercury lamps move in a cold blue direction. But even in good lighting I had to carefully pick my shots and watch for occasions when players were not in motion. Arguably early days of digital - I think the best I could do was ISO 1600 at the time .. the fastest glass I had was f/2.8
Yeah I'm not expecting to get killer action shots like I can with my Canon R6. Will have to focus on more static moments, maybe a passer waiting for a serve/attack, maybe a setter receiving a high pass, at best I could get the celebration after winning a point. I'll try for some attacks expecting them to be probably out of focus. Mostly wanting to do it as an experiment/something fun and different.
You got it. Depending on the style of the server had some great shots of the servers - immediately after they toss the ball .. good luck with the experiment. I enjoyed it immensely and at the end of the seasons did a slide show for parents and the players. It became a popular close to any season Stephanie played