p.1 #1 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
So far, I've only released Lightroom Presets for Z, but today I dropped my first Flexible Picture Control, modeled to emulate the things I love about shooting Ilford on my film cams.
p.1 #2 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
Scott, I shoot almost exclusively in black and white. This preset looks wonderful. I am downloading it now. Thank you so much!
Great pics as usual.
RoamingScott wrote:
So far, I've only released Lightroom Presets for Z, but today I dropped my first Flexible Picture Control, modeled to emulate the things I love about shooting Ilford on my film cams.
p.1 #4 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
Thanx Scott, nifty. Just updated to Zf 3.0 and added my 1st picture control ... Ilford 400!!! Wish I had this loaded when I was in Montana for 5 weeks just last month.
p.1 #5 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
You can import the picture control file to NX studio and re-process any images with that!
dsdickson wrote:
Thanx Scott, nifty. Just updated to Zf 3.0 and added my 1st picture control ... Ilford 400!!! Wish I had this loaded when I was in Montana for 5 weeks just last month.
p.1 #6 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
FYI I have added a LR Preset that applies a low contrast tone curve specific to this recipe...maybe some day Nikon will include the NX Studio tone curve in the Flex Profile, but until then...the preset is at the link in OP. You will apply this to the JPEG file.
p.1 #12 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
As an aside, I looked at your "photo of the day project" on the "musings" page on your linked website. A real quality and varied collection of photos Scott. Builds up a good visual overview of you and your location. It really shows how a collection adds up to much more than the sum of its parts. Good work!
p.1 #13 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
Mr Mc wrote:
As an aside, I looked at your "photo of the day project" on the "musings" page on your linked website. A real quality and varied collection of photos Scott. Builds up a good visual overview of you and your location. It really shows how a collection adds up to much more than the sum of its parts. Good work!
Thank you Ian, it has been equal parts fun and a slog from which I'm looking forward to be released
Someone commented that they felt like they knew me after looking through it, which I thought was a fun sentiment that wouldn't have been accomplished in the same way without such a project.
p.1 #16 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
The hardest part of making these, unlike Fuji, is you can’t really bake a good tone curve or white balance into them. NX Studio needs a little tweaking in this department.
Best thing to do is develop them with a single white balance in mind that you will always use while shooting it, no different to film emulsion.
jourdan.merritt wrote:
Would love to make an Astia file like this. Will have to start playing around! This camera rules !
p.1 #17 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
I learned a LOT about what NX Studio can't do today thanks to Chat GPT leading me down a dozen dead end trails and flat out lying to me
What I did manage to learn was that you can build a curve in the old Picture Control software and get it into NX Studio that way, so I managed to take what I was doing with the Lightroom curve tweak and get a second preset made.
This new one actually will work on older cameras as well because this whole process stripped off the flexible color container. You might have to copy and paste the link to get it to work.
p.1 #18 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
Scott,
The picture control (PC) is fantastic. I'm used to my own PC which is a very contrasty, dark Neopan-based look with dark blacks and bright whites. It's great for use during primarily during hard light which is when I do most of my shooting. It's horrible for people/portrait work. But I love the look.
Your picture control has a wonderful medium contrast look and like the film stock it's based on appears really good for all types of B&W photography in both bright low light situations. I'm loving the look for portrait work.
Unfortunately I have only shots of my kids and do not post those to the internet. Hopefully I'll be able to get out this week and take some other photographs to post that do the PC justice.
p.1 #19 · Scott's Ilford 400 Flexible Picture Control
theopwildebeest wrote:
Scott,
The picture control (PC) is fantastic. I'm used to my own PC which is a very contrasty, dark Neopan-based look with dark blacks and bright whites. It's great for use during primarily during hard light which is when I do most of my shooting. It's horrible for people/portrait work. But I love the look.
Your picture control has a wonderful medium contrast look and like the film stock it's based on appears really good for all types of B&W photography in both bright low light situations. I'm loving the look for portrait work.
Unfortunately I have only shots of my kids and do not post those to the internet. Hopefully I'll be able to get out this week and take some other photographs to post that do the PC justice.
