I really like the warm colors in this image. I swear every single time I scan color film I say to myself, “by golly, you need to work with color film more often!” Then I look at the current prices of color film out there in the real world and I remember why I don’t. My bank account probably would not survive very long.
Still, I am quite happy with this image of Devi. Despite the fact that there is a bit more grain in this image than I generally like with color work (I had to push the Kodak Portra 400 to 800 ISO as there wasn’t much light) the tonal quality is very nice and a pleasure to look at. Despite the low light I was still working with the Hasselblad 500cm hand held down to about 1/30th of a second and wide open at f/2.8. The resulting image is a tad soft, which I don’t think is a bad thing in this case. A little softness in an image lit with natural light of the human figure can be quite pleasing.