There are a couple of businesses performing LR/PS’film’ presets – of that I presume Mastin Labs will be the ideal. Kirk Mastin has taken a lot of difficulty to take various film types, and then reproduce their look for a film preset which can be applied during RAW conversion in both LR and PS. They come in packs, including Fuji Original, Fuji Pushed, Kodak Everyday, Ilford, Portra Original along with Portra Pushed – with each pack representing the film mentioned, generally at quite a few different ISO speeds. The point is to create the look and texture of the original picture, from your RAW file, together with the minimal amount of tweaking. Workflow is: open RAW file, correct verticals, lens corrections etc, use Mastin profile of option, choose any desired choices for Shadow Hard/Soft, Highlights Hard/Soft, Grain MF/35mm/Off, then adjust exposure and WB to taste. You get right to some more movie like variation of your picture, which you’ll be able to keep as is, or modify from there. It’s very beneficial to get a consistent appearance, say to some shoot or series of shoots, or to invoke a film like nostalgia or Mastin Labs Presets de influence. All this is achievable with no presets obviously – that they just save time, and also possess all the hard work done for you. I also utilize VSCO profiles, that are more numerous, but I do not think are quite as excellent as the Mastin Labs ones. Never the less, they really do produce wonderful results, and so are well worth having a look at. Here are some samples where I’ve utilized the Mastin Labs presets. Wonderful color pop out of Mastin Labs Kodak Ektar Sexy gold tones out of Mastin Labs Kodak Gold 200 Blue/Orange Style Split from Mastin Labs Portra 400 Glossy B&W out of Mastin Labs Kodak Tri-X Beautiful teal/orange tonal divide from Mastin Labs Portra160 nice skin tone lift out of Mastin Labs Ilford HP5 Deep tonal range between Mastin Labs Ilford Pan F Vintage Fuji skin tones from Mastin Labs Fuji Original 160NS More comparison and punch out of Mastin Labs Fuji 400 Pushed Pastel greens from a restricted release Mastin Labs Fuji 800Z +1 — hide touch –Your time is Limited, so don’t waste it somewhere about camera attributes – head out and capture memories +43 longer
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