David: my mistake. I could have sworn that the foliage was a washed-out green, making me think that this was underexposed-overprinted colour film. Maybe I should check the colour balance on this monitor. :-)
It _is_ XP2. The contrast on that Canon lens, if you've ever used a GIII-QL17 is incredible. It compares to the standard Leica Summicron 50mm f2 or the Contax 45mm f2 for the G series cameras. An old camera with a great lens does wonders.
I also, if I remember correctly, shot this at 200 rather than the rated 400 thereby also bumping up the contrast.
Any C-41 film I use, I try, if it's not a high contrast film, to overexpose a stop in order to bump up contrast.
With respect to the dark areas, agreed, but again the older camera does not have an exact meter.
Can't be XP2, unless you coloured the image after, and it doesn't look like that to me. In addition, XP2 has much lower contrast, generally, than I see here, which makes it great for shooting contrasty scenes. You've lost a great deal of detail in the dark areas, so you should either crop them out or shoot round them.
The background is rather contrasty to the point of distraction. Would like to see more emphasis on the statue -- perhaps closer to the face and more of an angle?
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