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Time for another quick post, busy work week so far, but I am not going to let LIDF slip. So here is my newest Black & White preset, simulating Rollei Ortho processed in Rollei Low Speed Developer, for enhanced tone and contrast.

This seems to be a very versatile film, and I need to shoot it again and develop in Rollei High Speed developer. Anyways, I gotta run, not enough time to do a write up, but please enjoy the preset.

Be back tomorrow, hopefully have some time to get up the article I have been working on.

Until then,
Michael

LR/ACR Preset: Classic Film Classic-Pan 200, originally uploaded by GrayImaging.

Now for the next preset in LifeInDigitalFilm’s ever growing collection. Classic Film is a German Film manufacturer/reseller. Currently they have two emulsions on the market, that I am aware of, Classic-Pan 200 and Classic-Pan 400. The manufacturer calims that the films a designed to be reminiscent of the older Kodak films, such as Double Super-XX and Plus-X.

The roll shot for emulation was processed myself in stock D-76 @ 20C for 8 minutes, as per DigitalTruth. I discovered after development that the two different ISO speeds are fairly different, so once again, there will be both a 200 and 400 speed preset. 400 coming soon, get 200 speed now.

I hope you enjoy it, I got a backstock of presets built back up, so release should consistantly be 2-3 a week for a while. Come back for more!

Twitter Resources:

Have to ask you, do you use Twitter? I do, as you can see from my Twitter feed on the right side of the blog. It is a great way to keep in touch and share ideas. For photographers of all levels Twitter is an excellent networking tool. I have amassed a collection of qulity people that I follow, who on a regular basis share good photography tips, resources and links. If you have a question, often Twitter is a great place to get and answer, or opinion, oridea, or solution. It is quick, simple and to the point. Definately join if you have not dones so, and if you have allow me to make some recommendations on people I think you should follow.

LIDF’s Twitter Follow List:

@mwgray – This is me, you should follow me.
@xequals – The man over at the X-Equals blog, Brandon offers great tips and links.
@profiphotos – Fellow curator of Flicker PresettingLR group,runs a great blog, too!
@auer1816 – Brian from the blog Epic Edits , always has some good info.
@pairadocsdesign – An interesteing photographer, fun to read, great Flickr stream.
@whoisariston – Another good photog, frequent tweeter, good links and info. Great site too!

I will be listing other great follows for Twitter periodically. These are some of the people I depend on to keep me up to date and thinking photography. Sometimes sources of inspiration. If you do Twitter, check these tweeples out.

Well until next time,
Michael

Now for my next free preset. Tonight we bring to you a German gift. By way of MACO Photographic’s Rollei R3. Distributed by Rollei, the film comes in all formats, and uses a classic cubic silver halide emulsion. Depending on the developer used the manufacture claims an ISO latitude from ISO 32 to ISO 32,000. The film has moderate resolution and good tonality. Grain is similar to that of Ilford HP5+.

Preset developed using Rollei R3 film shot at ISO 200 and developed in regular D-76 soup. Will retry this film again using the recommended developer when money allows.

On another note, I would like to point out a great group on Flickr. I have spend some time there discussing Lightroom presets and sharing my work. Presetting Lightroom is a community of preset users and developers that share their work and help each other out. We have a compilation of over 180 presets free for download made by many of our members, see the download banner off to the left sidebar to jump right to that.

Currently at Presetting Lightroom we have started a photography contest for the coming month of February. Look for it in the thread and submit an image…just make sure you used a preset. Currently we have three prizes up for grabs, 3 copies of my Cold Storage Presets Collection for Lightroom and ACR. Please come join us over at Flickr’s Presetting Lightroom group.

On the note of my Cold Storage Preset Collection, please consider purchasing it if you enjoy my presets. You will get 12 exclusive presets that you can only get in the Cold Storage package, and you get to help me continue to develop the film emulating presets you love.

For those who have purchased my collection, THANK YOU!!! For those thinking about it, and even those who are not, ask yourself if you get good results from my presets. If so, consider that most software that does a similar service costs well over ten times the price I ask. And they won’t do custom emulations if you have a film/developer combo you desire and don’t keep giving you more free presets to discover more classic film stocks. So think about it a bit.

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Thanks,
Michael

LR/ACR Preset: Ilford XPS 2, originally uploaded by GrayImaging.

Next stop on the Ilford train is XP2 Super. Ilford color processing black and white. Designed to be developed in regular C-41 chemicals at any mini lab. A decent film, much like Kodak’s BW CN in many ways. Not exactly my cup of tea, but a good film for B&W shots when you don’t have your chemical lab running.

Enjoy,
Michael

LR/ACR Preset: Ilford Pan F+, originally uploaded by GrayImaging.

Tonight is the first in my short series of Ilford films. Tonight I bring you the slow but sharp, fine grained Ilford Pan F+. Watch your black clipping and contrast using this preset, as a little too much can really black out shadow highlights.

As always, both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw preset files are included.

As side notes, I will be redesigning LifeInDigitalFilm over the next few months. I will be moving the blog from Blogspot hosting to another hosting provider when I finally get my business website up. When I do make the hosting switch I will be migrating LIDF to WordPress, which I wish I would have used when I started this mess. The change should allow me to provide a better experience, and the web hosting will allow me to have actual information pages for each film I emulate. So if in the future I have lapses in posts over a day or two, know that I am working on making the site better, not blowing it off.

Also, today I converted a really great preset to ACR. It is x=warm+storm preset, and it throws a really great effect on your image. I ran it on a wedding catalog I have and I had great results. Check it out at x-equals.com/blog. You may have already seen it up at PresetsHeaven, if you have still run over to x-equals, Brandon has included the ACR version of his preset for your enjoyment.

Well, until next time,

Michael