Now, compared to the original (not the same picture, I think, but it’s close): I added some deeper black levels to darken things up too. It’s contrasty, sharp (don’t know if you can zoom in, but at f/8, *everything* is in focus), and has just enough vignette to frame my friends in the picture. If I had to choose, the winner would be the first.Īnyway, let’s look at a picture I processed using LR: I like the Nik SilverFX one because of all of the work I put into it, but I also like the SOOC jpeg because it was easy. I really really miss the days of developing film, creating prints using an enlarger, and dipping prints through different chemical bins…then hanging prints to dry.Īnyway, my attempt to be digitally creative was actually light leaks from the frame when exposing them on paper…but I digress.īelow is the SOOC output from the XZ-1, using the Olympus grainy B&W art filter: I honestly don’t know if many would understand that back in the days of old, the frame that I digitally recreated is actually an artifact of poor placement and/or movement of the framing blocks used to block off a print when using an enlarger. This was edited with Nik SilverFX using some Fuji 1600 ISO film simulation, adding a bit of grain, then also adding a frame. So I resurrected my old laptop, with an old Lightroom 5.3 installation (perfectly fine since the XZ-1 and the K5ii are contemporary with LR5.3), and also resurrected the entire Nik Collection (when it was just *given* away) and spent some time to post-process some pics from Bodega Bay.įirst up – the picture of the Golden Gate Bridge on the way to Bodega Bay:
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