Therefore I am using four film post processing softwares. (Yes, I’m being facetious.)īeing a film photographer for more than thirty five years, it comes natural to seek the film look in my digital pictures. How many times have you ruined a photo by draining the color out of it like that? What a waste of an expensive color sensor. We’re getting to the point where every sensor yields more or less the same flawless recording of a scene, while one of the pleasures of shooting film was that every film had a different look to it.Īs I see it, using a film emulation preset is no different than switching a color photo to black and white. What we’re losing with digital sensors is character. Doing this sort of thing effectively and subtly can take many hours of experimentation pushing the sliders around yourself, so it’s handy to have a set of ready-made presets. warmer skies, cooler shadows, skin tones with more green than purple, and so on. But the idea behind emulating some of these professional films is not, at least for me, to ruin an otherwise good photo - it’s to subtly affect the color and contrast in ways which looks less clinically accurate in order to achieve some of the character of shooting film, e.g. If you stick to extreme presets, then yes, it can be counterproductive. Olympus E-P5 and Panasonic 20 1.7II – ProviaĪ full size file from the Sony RX1R treated with the Provia 400 filter – click it for full size and to see the grain the filter applies I used the Scala + Contrast filter in VSCO. The image below was shot with an Olympus E-P5 and 17 1.8 wide open. You can check out the VSCO Slide film pack HERE. The 1st set of images below of my Mother are all full size files from the Nikon V1 and the 1st image is the out of camera file.īelow that are random images treated with various slide film filters. Keep in mind there are many variants of each preset and below is just one, the portrait preset of each film. I am not doing a huge extensive posting on this set but will show you a full set of images using each preset. If you have purchased other filter packs from them then this set will cost you less than $60 right now. They are popular but controversial just like all “film” filters are and VSCO just released the SLIDE set which I feel is the best set of filters by them to date. Some of you may remember a post I made a short while ago on the VSCO film filters for Lightroom and Camera RAW.

Vsco film