But shooting film is becoming increasingly inconvenient and expensive as time passes. “If we want files that look like portra 160, we’re better of to shoot portra 160 film!” Pretty much everything in the last 9 months on my Flickr account has a VSCO film preset as a starting point, If there’s any you like the style of, I’m happy to detail what preset was used and what processing was done on them: The results with VSCO film when applied to the 5d mk ii files are amazing, really good with the X100 and hit and miss with the Olympus OMD and Panasonic GF3. I own an Olympus E-M5 OMD, a Panasonic GF3, a Fuji X100 and Canon 5d mk ii. They save me a lot of time in post processing and I get a much better result than I was getting without them so although they are expensive they’re easily worth it to me.Ī word of warning, the custom profiles (for Canon, Nikon and Fuji X) are in a different league to the standard profiles. You don’t need to use them to copy films, I use them mainly as giving me a headstart to get to the look I want. ![]() ![]() I nearly always start out using a VSCO film preset as a base and manipulate from there, normally reducing or taking the grain off. I agree with everything Steve says and VSCO Film is one of the best things I’ve bought. Be sure to click them all for larger size! Not sure what preset but this was a shot with a Nikon V1 and 32 1.2 at 1.2 – I do believe this was one of the faded Polaroid presets.Īnd a few more that are marked on the image. The 1st image is out of the Nikon V1, the 2nd is using the Fuji 400H preset and the third a Kodak Portra preset from pack 1. This shot of Jay Bartlett was taken with the Ricoh GR, but I applied a VSCO B&W film preset from pack 03 which can be seen below the original shot.īelow is another quick test shot of Debby, and I applied one of the HP5 presets from Pack 01 – I chose this one for the faded look but there are many more HP5 presets that will give you more contrast and bite.īelow is a shot that will show you how the color and tone will change with various film presets. Which are mostly polaroid and faded films. The images below it all have different film presets applied from film pack 03 – Each preset has many variablesīelow, the 1st image is out of camera using a Nikon V1. To read more and see even more samples that are much better than mine, check out the official VSCO film site HERE. Take a look below at some of the before and afters of using pack 1 and 3. ![]() The bad news is that they do not offer a trial. Many of us spend so much time trying to tweak our images to look like film, and for those that do I highly suggest you take a look at VSCO Film. I can see how this can drastically cut down on processing time. I found a cool write-up of it by pro wedding photographers HERE where you can see some real world examples as well as read how much they love VSCO film.Īs for me, I downloaded them and applied a few filters to a few images to test it out and I like what I see so far. These are the ultimate in speed, simplicity and performance. ![]() These film packs are a bit expensive and there are three packs available, 1, 2 and 3. As in, it can save you countless hours doing post processing, especially if you shoot weddings or events and want to give your images a special look and flair. These VSCO FIlm packs are a bit different as it is not really a “plug in” but more of a powerful tool that can apply your favorite film look to ALL of your images during import into Lightroom. I have tried and loved Alien Skin Exposure since the 1st version for its simplicity and power and I have used Silver Efex Pro in the past for B&W conversions but none of them actually really made the images look much like film, just some contrast and grain and special effects. I recently decided to bite the bullet and actually buy all of the VSCO film packs which can transform your digital files a bit and make them look more film like.
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