thank you for sharing those amazing film photos.
i am a film lover myself, and when i first started to shoot digital, i was always dissatisfied with the colours i got.
i was suffering in post for hours, to get something that pleases my eye.
then i found the blog and the book of the russian photographer - pavel kosenko - his book ‘the live digit’ tells about his background, experience in getting the best results with digital, and why does he think, understands, why we, humans tend to like some film photos more.
the author of the book later got disappointed in digital himself, and started to shoot exclusively film, and… his iphone.
for that he created a macos program which applies the luts he have had prepared by shooting film and colour targets, then printing film with analog way, and creating luts out of this.
i don’t use macs so i am out of the game. my friend tried to reverse engineer his luts, with some success, but his luts still have problems.
so i shoot a lot of film, and i decided to try creating my luts. today i got the camera colour target from wolf faust.
i already made a couple of photos under different light, and i will try making good luts. i explored internet but did not find something close to the quality of kosenko’s dehancer program, and i did not find something i will really like. i only found something i can tolerate sometimes.
so i hope my luts will be better.
still, i love to shoot film, and will unlikely to give it up.
my suggestion will be: shoot film. get a film camera you can use your modern lenses with. or get a film camera with old lens that have their own taste.
and shoot film, and enjoy it.
i would not say that you don’t ever need a post with film, but i usually avoid it, and enjoy what i have. i don’t have so much time for post, and i think what i get with film out of scanner is good enough for me. well i do scans myself and i have some problems with my scanner but i think i figured it out now.
when i was getting lab scans from the pakon or noritsu scanners - i was amazed by results and i did not want, usually, to touch the scans at all.
once i gave the lab a weird cinema film to scan, and the scans had green shifts, so i created a gimp script to batch process and degreen all the photos i got in that batch. that helped.
but usually i am happy with what i get from the good lab scanners.
if i want to get photos that are over or under exposed - i do it when shooting, so i don’t need to postprocess because of that.