Not sure there are many people here who shoot/shot instant film, but vsco just released their new film set emulating some of the more popular instant film stocks. I do shoot instant film (primarily fp-100c and fb-3000b), so I wanted to take the risk as check it out. I have liked what I have tested so far, even though as usual, it takes some tweaking to get it where I like it. The Polaroid presets are a bit extreme for me, but so was a lot of the cosumer level Polaroid film (which is why I have never really liked those)
As with their previous releases, if you own either Film 1 or Film 2, you get this new one at 50% off for the next few weeks
I bought it this morning but haven't installed it yet. I really don't use filters but I think VSCO has the best implementation. Granted they're just presets and you can likely do it yourself with enough time and fortitude but at least it works within Lightroom and doesn't rely on creating additional files to edit.
I really was not impressed with VSCO at first but I played with it for a few days and ended up developing some new presets for myself using it. Much better colors than I was getting before it AND better consistency between Nikon and Canon files for when my second shooter uses Canon (most of the time).
Haven't played much with the toolkit yet, is it worth playing with too or just quicker ways to adjust brightness and contrast etc?
Doubt I will be interested in this one, but I have to give them credit for improving my output recently with 1 / 2.
I still can't believe people actually STILL buy Lightroom presets. It takes 100s of hours to learn how to use photogshop...and it takes about 10 hours to learn how to use LR...
What's funny, there are many photographers even do blog posts on their purchase and tell clients what they use for editing. "Gee",says a bride, "I can't edit my own photos ,give me the raw files noooowwwww" hahaha
I still can't believe people actually STILL buy Lightroom presets. It takes 100s of hours to learn how to use photogshop...and it takes about 10 hours to learn how to use LR...
What's funny, there are many photographers even do blog posts on their purchase and tell clients what they use for editing. "Gee",says a bride, "I can't edit my own photos ,give me the raw files noooowwwww" hahaha
I use modified VSCO presets as a baseline for my work - it saves a lot of time, and it gets the effect I'm looking for.
As far as photogs posting it on their blog - one of the first things that popped up for my when I searched "VSCO 3" was the photog's review that I listed above. Given that a lot of us shoot for other photographers, that's pretty impactful marketting, not too mention a valuable interaction with VSCO that could potentially land you even more free publicity.
roland hale wrote:
As far as photogs posting it on their blog - one of the first things that popped up for my when I searched "VSCO 3" was the photog's review that I listed above. Given that a lot of us shoot for other photographers, that's pretty impactful marketting, not too mention a valuable interaction with VSCO that could potentially land you even more free publicity.
yup. i thought it was a great decision to do a blog for that reason as well.
