Since Roger has been showing us some of his archival photos using Velvia film, I wanted try and replicate that look somewhat using a Lightroom preset that I had recalled earlier. ; The photos that Roger has been sharing look great and that film obviously provided a ; certain look to your photos. ; Must have been fun to experiment with different films back in the day. ; I suppose more thought went into pre-processing with film rather than today with all of the post-processing. Thanks again Roger for sharing those. So here is a shot I took on our last trip: Straight from the camera: [attachimg=1] With some minor tweaking in Lightroom: [attachimg=2] Using the Velvia preset: [attachimg=3] [attachments posted prior to 4/27/2010 have been deleted by admin. be sure to link images to make sure they don't get removed]
Thanks for sharing Paul! Velvia always had one of those looks...hard to expose for because it wasn't forgiving of mistakes plus you had to have good light for ISO 50.
Thanks guys. ; I was under the impression that film was gone, but then I was just reading my Outdoor Photographer magazine today and there it is, a big add for it on the back cover. ; (Velvia 50 Daylight Fujichrome in 4x5 format)
No, film's not dead. ; Not yet. Unless you're looking for Agfa Ultra 50, or Kodachrome. Or that Fuji 100/1000 slide film. Wow, they still have Agfa Scala?
right here gary: http://x-equals.com/blog/?p=119 ; (this is the one I used in the photo above) http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/24 there are others here: http://inside-lightroom.com/colour-presets/ http://lightroompresets.com/ (updated 8/14 with more links)
Do they have Ultra 50 presets?[nb]Rescanning a strip of 4 as we speak at 4800dpi. ; So far it hasn't blown my computer up.[/nb]
