While set up and waiting for some action at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside, NY; a photographer new to the preserve saw my retro looking silver Fujifilm X-T3 and asked "Are you shooting film?" I informed him what that I was using the X-T3 and that it's digital. He knew the name and it's reputation as a great camera. In honor of the early days of photography I'm presenting today's photos in Black and White. No black and white conversions, these images were shot in RAW and processed in Photoshop ACR choosing from the Fujifilm film simulations ACROS and ether the included red or yellow filter with normal grain. I hope you enjoy this retro look to my images all taken on a rainy day.
Adam, it's pictures like yours above that, amongst other things, gives the "lie" to KR's bullshite about how it is the Fuji color is optimized for people and not landscapes. Beautiful picture, on both counts.
anthonysemone wrote:
Adam, it's pictures like yours above that, amongst other things, gives the "lie" to KR's bullshite about how it is the Fuji color is optimized for people and not landscapes. Beautiful picture, on both counts.
Isn't he the guy who thinks that RVP/Velvia is the best portrait film? I remember looking at his portrait work ~15 years ago and wondering why his family all looked in desperate need of SPF50.
And thanks.
I won't say I'm totally satisfied with Fuji's default colours for landscape, I'd kill for a proper Provia sim that actually looks like Provia 100F, or a Velvia sim that looked more like RVP than RVP100.
That said, it certainly isn't hard to get the colours I want from my Fuji files, especially on the newer bodies. This shot was actually the first Fuji file I edited in LR mobile on my iPad Pro as part of a workflow test (it's not quite what I wanted, the shadows are blocked up compared to how it looked on the iPad Pro).
First thing I thought of when I saw D-76, the hours in the old dark room.
