The title states slide Stefan’s post. Could explain why I thought there was something unfilm like about it. Hard to be sure though as the manufacturers kept upping the iso rating of both generally resulting in more muted colouration but it’s hard to find a word to describe the difference it made.
Focus ? It can make a hell of a difference to the appearance of a shot.
I can’t explain the weird greens in place. Long time ago but I took lots of slides in Italy and greens don’t look like that. The buildings are faded as well. That can happen in sunny climbs especially with some brands of film.
I have a shot taken in Turkey. Sunny there too. This is as I adjusted it.
Your playing around with the RGB channels inspiredd me to do the same.
I first looked at the histogram of his image… you can clearly see the peak of the sky, and the rest, which is the foreground is the interesting part. If you just look at the rest (in his image the lower 2/3 of the histogram), then the red peaks on the light tones, the green peaks on the middle tones and the blue exists only on the shadows.
I tried to mimic that in Gimp by fixing the histogram of all three channels somewhat to the left of the sky-peak and the doing as I wrote above: reds peak in the highlights, green peak in the mids, blues peak in the shadows. finished by adjusting the overall luminosity.
Here’s an example, split in the middle with the original image to the left (excuse the rear, I was looking for an image quickly, which had kind of the same colors):
Time of day, day of year, sky, geographic location, medium format, film? Skill and eye of the photographer.
Trying to post all that will result in one mangled photo… Regardless of postprocessing skills you can’t make a good carbonara out of ala Norma ingredients!
@nosle I agree with you on most counts. Good pasta is especially hard to fake, if not impossible. However, all those things said, there ought to be a way to state what causes those particular colours. There ought to be a means to edit, which produces that general feel of tones; like dominating greens, dark green shadows, and such. I know I’ve seen this look before, though not sure where. It must be possible to reproduce.
It’s Kodak. The NC bit is important because it’s the daylight Natural Colour version. Must be a haldclut out there already. Edit : oops thought you wrote who not what…
@nosle I don’t doubt there is a nice clut and that it works amazingly, I just want to know what that clut does. I want to put those settings into RT and learn from them and eventually tweak
I remember trying ages ago when i moved to digital. Can’t say it was ever successful. Perhaps this one but only because I was helped by the strange light that day. Was shot with a Pentax K100D, a digital camera.
Alright, I’ve done some work and now I’ve got something to show for it. Here’s what I’ve got after some tweaking. I’ll upload now and answer questions when at work tomorrow if anyone is interested.