- Silver Efex Pro
- Color Efex Pro
- Analog Film (occasionally)
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Valley Of Fire -- Slot Canyon
by Hin Man, on Flickr
* with Fuji Acros simulation. This picture got Flickr Explore two days ago and it is a great honor.
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Las Vegas City Lights
by Hin Man, on Flickr
I can't remember -- it is either a Portra 160 VC or Kodachrome 64 professional
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20170418-DSC05877-Edit
by Hin Man, on Flickr
with Agfa film simulation -- I rarely use this film simulation
When someone praises my photos and asks me about my editing approach, I feel flushed when I see your comments. There is not much secret in my life or photography -- I love to share when opportunity comes and it is an honor to share my amateur approach in photography. I use the word 'amateur' as I don't like to learn from one master but to learn from others and have my personal touch on things -- be it right or wrong as art form comes from one's vision and not have a fix set of rules that limit creativity. I don't learn from a set of youtubes or a master like Ansel Adam but I experiment in trying it out cluelessly until my approach in editing stick to some consistence. I spend my most time in editing. Editing and post processing is required in all of my photos and sometime I wish there is a camera or a set of techniques that I can do without editing -- I have not found the secrets yet and not even close. I do go through a laborious and painful and joyful process in editing. Processing brings my photographic vision alive and sometime a different vision is rendered after processing -- a surprisingly refreshing result when that happens.
And I hate seeing myself taking multiple shots on the same scene. I like to re-train myself as if I am still shooting film and be content with 1 to 2 shots on the same view before I move to the next scene. I rather have a bad picture and learn from it then spending the countless hours in picking 1 out of 10 similar pictures. I despise people gun-shooting a scene or the same subject with 5 to 11 frames for second to fill the buffer to show how fast their awesome camera can shoot -- I hate it.
My b&w pictures usually go through some editing in LightRoom and then go through Nik Collection using Silver Efex Pro. I highly recommend Google Nik Collectionand please give that free download a trial. It is an eye opener for me as I like to experiment on the Modern Film simulation with various films. The choice of film simulation boils down to the mood of the moment during editing. My default go-to film simulation is Fuji Neopan Acros 100 , followed by Kodak BW400CN, TMax, TriX, and sometime I like stronger contrast with the Ilford. On the odd time, I go with plain Lightroom and start from scratch in setting saturation to 0 and tune the tone curve to my liking on shadows and highlight detail.
Will share more when I think of something critical. Please let me know if I am veering off much from your question. Hope this helps you. We should all share what works and what doesn't.
1 comments:
I have seen many photos edited by photoshop. They are good, but there are a lot of alternatives now. For example, http://alternativephotoshop.com/ is better than Photoshop in many ways and can be a decent alternative to it.
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