Overgaard Posted January 24, 2007 Share #1 Posted January 24, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Did a series of shots for corporate website. I selected this one and have done quite some PS work to make it look like "film-like" so that it fits with the rest of the shots on their website (which I did previously with slide film). D2, 200 ISO Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Overgaard Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share #2 Posted January 24, 2007 I also thought about this one ... but then decided the above had nicer colors ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 24, 2007 Share #3 Posted January 24, 2007 thorsten -- I like them both but suspect if she used the second one she might no longer be employed. Nice overall look, colors, light and framing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xxl-user Posted January 24, 2007 Share #4 Posted January 24, 2007 for my taste the first one has to much junk in the background which makes concentration on the lady impossible. arnold Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmskov Posted January 24, 2007 Share #5 Posted January 24, 2007 Hi Thorsten, It really depends on what her job is. I prefer the second one which I find quite untraditional, funny and interesting. However if she's an account manager at Maersk it's most likely a no go For a film like effect I normally just duplicate the motif layer, add film grain filter and set the opacity to 10-30% approx. In Photoshop off course... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted January 24, 2007 Share #6 Posted January 24, 2007 Thorsten, the first works well in my opinion. The background, I think, gives context. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share #7 Posted January 26, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Palmskov, Here in Denmark no 2 could actually work if it was communications, design or sime business. However, this is business consulting so it might be considered too funny. As for the background, if it was a film set it would be hot. No, I actually like the background to be there only I would prefer another one with nicer stuff. As for the film look versus the digital look, here's how the original file looked and which I call 'digital' (by which I mean to sharp background, to dull and always the same (easy to predict). Film simply has another glow to it and you can get something entirely unpredicted - and fantastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xxl-user Posted January 26, 2007 Share #8 Posted January 26, 2007 this has nothing to do with FILM versus DIGITAL. it´s 24x36 versus 2/3" chip if you shoot with a minox 8x11 you get the same dof on film if you buy a 24x36mm chip digital camera you get the same nice unsharp bachground as on film Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share #9 Posted January 26, 2007 xxl, Please read what I wrote before you get grumpy about it. DOF is not the only difference. And Leica does nok make 24x36mm digital cameras. There is a lot of nice things about digital in terms of costs of materials, speed of a final pictures - not to mention all the work of buying film, getting films developed, picking up films, scanning, adjusting, archiving films. But on the other hand film is just do damn nice. We've had plenty of discussions about film and digital many times before you arrived in the forum - and I never think we managed to agree what was best for everybody. On this shot I was lazy and decided to go with digital and get done with it in the same day - which then meant tweaking and adjusting colors and all to get the result I previously had with Astia slide film for the same customer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
knipse_olivia Posted January 26, 2007 Share #10 Posted January 26, 2007 Number one is more serious, number two is funny. What´ts the girls job, what do the company produce ore sell? This Question should be answered The background in number one looks a liitle bit cluttered, what is in my opinion a result of bad composition and perspektive (eg. frame cuts head). Maybe you have more serious shoots of her in front of the blue wall? That would be better, in my opinion. To get a filmlike, analog effect, it helps to use wide apertures or to use a camera with bigger sensor or, both at the same time.Then, situations like this were in former (pre digital) always NOT perfectly color balanced. There was no automatic white balance. (Thats why I use daylight whitebalance during shooting, so see what colors the situation naturally delivers and then in raw converting I carefully correct the balanceto leave some hints to the "film world"). And you should adust the contrast.I got the feeling, that digital has larger contrast range (yes, with a tendency to cut of in the highlights), so I tend to advance the contrast to get filmy look. Oh thats important too: grain! My Canon starts to get grainy above 400 Asa, thats why I never user her with lower speed. All steps together help to get it filmy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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