VSCO film presets with the R-D1 examples

[kennylovrin]

Hey guys

I don't know how big the interest is, but I bought the VSCO film presets for Aperture late last night and just now I went out to shoot something new to try the presets on.

I just wanted to share some shots as examples of what it looks like on the R-D1 files. Maybe someone is interested. 🙂

For these specific files, I've used a combination of two of the Fuji film presets (first 800Z then 400C, adjusted 400C grain to be a bit lighter and some vignetting lastly), so it's not completely out of the box, but I have to say that so far I'm really liking these presets!

The only downside really is that it's quite a few adjustments, so it tends beach ball a bit on my iMac. It's not too bad on the R-D1 files though as they're not too high resolution.


EPSN0527 by kennylovrin, on Flickr


EPSN0529 by kennylovrin, on Flickr


EPSN0536 by kennylovrin, on Flickr

 

[radical7]

I wove youuuuuu!!!
Mind pulling the Ilford HP5 preset with an Epson image?

 

[kennylovrin]

Sure, I'll post one later today. Haven't really tried the b&w presets yet other than just clicking through them so that could be interesting!

 

[Keith]

I've used a bit of that 800Z and that looks very close to what I remember.

 

[kennylovrin]

I wove youuuuuu!!!
Mind pulling the Ilford HP5 preset with an Epson image?

So here's a Ilford HP5 example. Maybe you know already, but all film presets come in + and - versions. Not sure exactly what it means, I suspect it's simulating a push and pull process. This one is using the normal preset.

I've also added the normal Ilford HP5 grain preset, there is only one. To my taste it's a bit too much grain, but I don't know how genuine it looks to be honest. I left it as default for this purpose, but I'd probably pull it back a bit myself in actual use. Matter of taste I guess. 🙂

I used one of the shots above so that it would be easier to kind of relate it to a color photo.

I have to say that at first I thought it was a bit expensive with $79 for some presets, but after playing with it I think it was well worth the money, I really like it because now I can spend even less time adjusting things. Even though I am very interested in tech and computers etc, I have never really loved the post processing part of photograhpy and usually try to do as quick of a job as possible. So these presets come in real handy for someone like me.

 

[radical7]

Thanks for this, nice blacks and grain. What goes for VSCO is that they really did their tests in order for their presets to emulate film, I think they hit the nail on the head! I love the fact that these are based on real film and you are not just playing around with the controls.

 

[kennylovrin]

Thanks for this, nice blacks and grain. What goes for VSCO is that they really did their tests in order for their presets to emulate film, I think they hit the nail on the head! I love the fact that these are based on real film and you are not just playing around with the controls.

You're right, they look really good - like I said, well worth the money in my opinion. The only thing I can't really tell regarding the grain is how genuine it is in relation to megapixel count. I don't know exactly how the internals of the presets work so I don't know if they use different resolution overlays for grain depending on the file resolution.

I just find that it tends to look slithgly too grainy on the R-D1, whereas the 5Dmkii shots I have look a bit more natural. I haven't looked into it in details, it could just be the fact that the zoom level is very different because of the difference in resolution when I look at the photos full screen.

I just had a really quick look, and it looks more alike at 100% magnification.

But anyway, I haven't shot enough film to be able to tell how the grain size matches the image size, if that makes sense. To be honest though, I don't care too much, if it looks good, it is good even if it is not an exact replica of the film type. But that is just my opinion. 🙂

 

[radical7]

If it looks good it looks good. Period. No pixel peeping required