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Hey, whats up everybody? Still cranking on a lot of scanning articles to start releasing soon and trying to get ahead on my work over at X-Equals, so today seems like a good day to release a new preset.

Today I bring you another emulation of Fuji Velvia 100. The original version is available only in the Cold Storage Collection Vol. 1, but today’s version is quite different. This roll of Velvia I sot over the summer was over exposed slightly, exposed at a relative ISO of 80. I was just seeing what would happen, experimenting like I do a lot. I was rather happy with the results, toning down the saturation of the film a bit, even though the roll had a lot of highlight blow-out. This Velvia preset still pops the saturation quite a bit, but plays much nicer with skin tones. Be careful with bokeh though, at there is a high propensity for halos when using on images with heavy bokeh.

Luckily emulations do not suffer from highlight blowout like slide film does, so my emulation of this particular roll is a touch nicer than actually shooting Velvia at 80. I hope you enjoy it. Its different.

So, come back soon and see what else I have in store. 2 more free preset releases and the new Cold Storage Collection drops, so stay tuned. And for everyone who keeps dropping by for scanning tips, that series should launch this week, with the basics of scanning. You may want to grab yourself a copy of Hamrick’s VueScan if you plan on following along with my tutorials.

Don’t forget to drop by X-Equals on Thursdays to catch my weekly article over there as well!

Recently a friend of mine was over at my house, discussing film emulation. As he was getting ready to leave, he asked me if I had any E-6 I needed processed, as he does his own and his chemistry is getting a tad old. I said I didn’t have any E-6, but if he was getting rid of the chemistry soon anyways, as he no longer shoots film, he could run some c-41 print film through the slide process. He had never done it before, but he went ahead and took four rolls of C-41 film from me to process.

Well a few days ago, he got the film back to me. Fuji 160C was one of the films he cross-processed, and it turned out to give some really wild results. Almost unusable for my purposes, but it has an edge, especially if there are no people in your image.

See, the processing looks great, interesting color-shifts, green going a touch neon; perfect for some creative landscape or artistic animal work. But is just does not work for humans, as it turns any skin tone a funky shade of yellow. I do not like the look on skin. That is not to say that you might not like it, or may find a way to make it work in an image, its just I don’t think I can.

So if you see a possibility for it, download it and take it for a spin. Let me know if you can make anything out of it.

There will be more upcoming C-41 to E-6 cross processes upcoming, most less harsh than this one. Also I have some revisits upcoming, where I shoot another roll of an already emulated film and emulate it again. Be it a different expiration date, different developer or just different conditions at time of test shots. I try to emulate any roll I shoot, and if they are good enough, they will make it here. Worst case scenario, you have 5 different Tri-X presets to choose from, but choice should never be a problem.

Back soon with Part 2 of the Presets series

Until Then,

Michael

Alright, back on schedule. Releasing one of two quality Fuji presets today, tomorrow another follows. Today I bring you my interpretation of Fuji 160C, one of Fuji’s professional line films, this one designed for general use, with a heavy leaning towards strong saturation. The film produces great, saturated colors, but not too far over the top. Great for all kinds of uses, but maybe a bit rich in the orange channel for portraiture. But that is what Fuji 160S is for.

160C features a fine grain and Fuji’s “4th color layer” which supposedly allows for richer colors with less grain. Either way it is a great film with a lot of versatility.

Come back tomorrow for the next film preset in my Fuji set, 160S. The subdued portrait film.

Until then,

Michael

Just For the Presetting Lightroom Flickr Group, originally uploaded by GrayImaging.

A few days ago I released a preset only for the people in the Presetting Lightroom community over at Flickr. Just in case you were not aware of it, the Presetting Lightroom group is an excellent resource for great presets and a good place to look for help when you run into Lightroom issues. Please come on over and join us.

You can find my Fuji Velvia Cross-Processed preset in the discussions on the group. Look around, you’ll find it…just look for the picture I am showing you above.

Click to head on over….[Presetting Lightroom group on Flickr]

Again I implore you to consider grabbing my preset collection, I know it’s not manly to beg, but I really need to get this blog self-sustaining. I have options as far as hosting goes, as much as I would like to get the site hosted on it’s own, but I do need money to keep getting film, paying for development chemistry an the other expenses incurred in the process of these emulations.

The purchase links are in the upper right hand side of the blog.

Until next time,

Michael

LR Preset: Fuji Neopan 400, originally uploaded by GrayImaging.

[Adobe Camera RAW preset added 01132009]

Wow, this is what, 3 nights in a row that I get a release out. I must be sick….oh wait…I am. Plus I am still sick and it is my birthday. Too nasty to go out and shoot here in mid-Missouri, and all the rest of my photo editing work is too important (i.e. customer’s work) to do while hopped up on Nyquil. Sometimes things look really good 45 minutes after taking a dose, not so much the next day. But, I digress.

Tonight’s menu features another fine Fuji film. Another of my B&W presets, this is the sister preset to my Fuji Neopan 1600 from two nights ago. Both were processed at the same time, but I split up the release to bring a little color to a rather dreary day yesterday.

So tonight I give the world my version of Fuji Neopan 400.

Until Next Time,
Michael