Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Hoppy. If you need to work at making digital look like film, it tells me the preferred look of photographic images is that made with film. I love PS and digital cameras of which I have a large investment. But when I want a photo to have a certain traditional look, I have a few very nice M bodies and lenses for that. Len On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:22 PM, G Hopkinson wrote: > Philippe, I agree that the altered shot is more atmospheric and I > am very enthusiastic about photoshop, too. > But I am the only one here struck by the incongruence of working to > make digital images look just like film? > Cheers > Hoppy > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of > Philippe Orlent > Sent: Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:26 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure > > This is a photograph that I already showed exactly as below here. I > shot it on Fuji NPS160, with professional development, but had it > scanned commerially on low res: all flattened out. > > http://tinyurl.com/y4o8pq > or bigger: > http://tinyurl.com/tbwgw > > > > This is the same shot after I let Alien Skin (and some minor > additional PS alterations) have a go at the original scan today: > > as big as above: > http://tinyurl.com/y373rf > > !!! the big ones are in Adobe RGB !!! > > Isn't the 2nd one much more distinctive and doesn't it have a lot > more character? Or am I just overenthousiastic? > > Philippe > > > > Op 2-dec-06, om 20:55 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven: > >> I feel the same way. I just like the way film looks. Digital, to >> me, seems >> snapshot-ish, probably because hundreds of millions of people are >> taking >> snapshots with them as we speak. I'll give your plug-in a try when >> I get my >> on-the-way Mac and PS CS2 set up Tuesday night. >> >> Jeffery Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> http://www.400tx.com >> http://400tx.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >> Philippe >> Orlent >> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:28 PM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure >> >> >> It's a plug in intended to 'imitate' that good ole film look in >> digital photography. It does it amazingly well, fast, for about any >> film you can imagine, in color and in B&W and is tweakable in a lot >> of parameters, so you can create your own 'signature' for personal >> settings that can be saved. I converted a digital shot to the Ektar >> 25 look, added some grain and deeped the shadows, put a soft pink >> filter on it and then made it a bit warmer. The photo gained a lot in >> quality due to this. In no time at all. >> I never liked digital photography just because of that: undistinctive >> color profiles unless with a lot of effort and work in PS. And now >> its solved. >> >> Philippe >> >> >> >> Op 2-dec-06, om 19:07 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven: >> >>> What does it do? >>> >>> Jeffery Smith >>> New Orleans, LA >>> http://www.400tx.com >>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org >>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >>> Philippe >>> Orlent >>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:17 AM >>> To: LUG Group >>> Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure >>> >>> >>> Just downloaded this PS Plug in. This is one piece of nifty >>> software! >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information