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Matt walks through Fujicolor's Superia X-TRA 400 Film stock and talks about some of the pros and cons of shooting with this film. View high quality examples of the film to get a better idea of how it looks in various lighting conditions.
All photos © Moloney Creative Agency https://mjmolo.com/photo
Read more about film photography on FilterGrade: https://filtergrade.com/category/photography/film-photography/
More Film Videos
** How to Load a 35mm Film Camera: https://youtu.be/U4eEeztPViM
** How to Load 120mm Film: https://youtu.be/s49TE6tHFxU
** Super 8 Test Footage - Boston, MA - Fall 2017: https://youtu.be/S9EMNbXPbEg
Buy Fujicolor Superia XTRA 400 here (affiliate link) – https://amzn.to/2VPhUXk
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jump everyone Matt here from filter
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grade and today I'm just gonna be going
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over Fuji colors superior extra 400 film
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specifically I used this for street
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photography but I also use it in my
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day-to-day for everything else too just
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because it's a daylight film so you can
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use it really an at each setting I
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really like using this with flash too
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because you get a nice crunchy feel so
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we're gonna be going ahead just to look
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at some of my photos to see some of the
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benefits some of the cons and then also
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just looking at what the differences are
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when you're shooting landscapes versus
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portraits versus you know in the street
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and just kind of natural photos so let's
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go ahead and take a look alright so
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we're gonna start with a portrait this
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is a portrait of my friend named to our
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home I think this is a great
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representation of the Fuji color
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superior extra for our film because I
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really like the contrast in it you can
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really see his skin tones popping
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against the red background the brick
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really makes him just almost like a 3d
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against it especially with the drop
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shadow around his back left shoulder I
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also really enjoyed just a red and the
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bright vivid colors in this photo you
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can see it in the same the same context
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in the second photo and I just really
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enjoy it because most people don't
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associate this film is being in bright
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you know vibrant colorful film stock
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like act art or like porch or 400 but
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when you use it in the right settings
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and under certain under certain
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circumstances it'll just work right for
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you so I think this really worked out
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well so let's go ahead and take a look
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at the next photo so switching the
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landscape you can already see a bit of a
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different kind of foam tone in this sky
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and in the water you can you can almost
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see the texture of the film you get much
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more of a grainy look in this then you
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did in the portrait however you still
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get that bright color and you also get
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that contrast you can see the dark
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shadows on the right side but then
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that nice sunburst right in the middle
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so I really like the latitude of this
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film and when you shoot landscapes
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they'll see it in the next photo as well
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you can see just a lot more grain and a
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lot more texture as opposed to when
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you're shooting the portraits you get a
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much different feel so make sure you
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notice that and always use that as a
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strategy and use it with intelligence
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when you're shooting your portraits all
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right so now you can see how the film
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stock performed when you're shooting
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portraits and when you're shooting
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landscapes but the one question that I
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always ask myself when I'm going to test
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a new film is how is it going to perform
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when I'm shooting street photos when I
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don't have as much time to manually
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change all the settings to perfectly
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make the situation well-lit and
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perfectly composed and yadda yadda yadda
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so that's one of the main questions that
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I look at when I'm trying a new film
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stock and because this is a daylight
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film and because it's 400 ISO you have a
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lot of range and a lot of you know kind
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of breathing room you can make a little
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bit of mistakes with your exposure and
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when you're a little bit off focus the
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grain that is in the film will almost
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provide more of a texture and if it's
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done right you can use it to make it
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look more mysterious or more emotional
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depending on how you're shooting so when
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you look at this first photo you can see
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it's a little bit out of focus but the
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grain actually adds to it I think I
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think it makes it look more intense and
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makes it look more dramatic so looking
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at this third photo you can see actually
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that the film stock whether you're
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shooting with bright sunlight or whether
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you're shooting in the clouds like this
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was shot at you'll still get a nice
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well-lit well exposed photo and because
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of the high relatively higher so you
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don't get something that's completely
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out of focus even when you're shooting
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from the hip such as this shot right
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here so with that being said these are
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all reasons why I really enjoy the film
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the only downsides that I do find to the
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film sometimes is that you'll get almost
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too much grain which you can see in this
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next photo here this is also due to a
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bit of a miss exposure so I was a little
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bit underexposed which is why it looks a
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bit more grainy a bit more almost dusty
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and the colors are off but I think that
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this is the only downside to the film
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really other than that I don't think
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there's any really negatives I think if
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you're not into shooting with kind of a
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heavy grain then you might want to
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choose portrait instead but if this is
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something you're into testing or want to
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just learn to see how you could use it
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then I think it's definitely worth a
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shot
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alright thanks so much for watching we
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hope you enjoyed the video let us know
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in the comments below if you've tested
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out the film stock if you have let us
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know if you agree with me or if you
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disagree let us know what you think of
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the pictures and if you enjoyed the
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video go ahead and leave us a thumbs up
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other than that I hope you guys have a
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great day peace