p.1 #1 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
Today I have a recipe that eschews the filmic, faded aesthetics that are dominating the recipe landscape, and instead trends toward a slight softening of realistic colors that can be used for everyday shooting.
p.1 #3 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
pr4photos wrote:
That looks great. Would be nice to see a Lightroom version, for use on RAW files. But I do get why people like the recipes for use in camera
There is absolutely NO WAY to do this unfortunately, not least of which is the known bug (for many months now) of how Adobe's Flexible Color camera matching profile is completely broken on Zf files (what I use to make these). Very frustrating.
p.1 #6 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
RoamingScott wrote:
There is absolutely NO WAY to do this unfortunately, not least of which is the known bug (for many months now) of how Adobe's Flexible Color camera matching profile is completely broken on Zf files (what I use to make these). Very frustrating.
I wasn't aware that the colour matching profile system was broken. That is indeed very frustrating
p.1 #7 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
RoamingScott wrote:
There is absolutely NO WAY to do this unfortunately, not least of which is the known bug (for many months now) of how Adobe's Flexible Color camera matching profile is completely broken on Zf files (what I use to make these). Very frustrating.
I missed what the issue was, can you elaborate? I had some photos I took with the z5ii with a custom profile and did raw plus jpegs and when I went to edit the raws I couldn't get them back to a normal state from which to start. I assume I was doing something wrong. Is it related to that?
p.1 #8 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
Typically you would want to import your raw files “with camera settings“ to LR so that it can approximate what Nikon is doing in camera. If you do that using a custom recipe with Zf files, the values LR estimates are completely screwed up. Those messed up settings would be essentially the original settings for the raw, sounds kind of like what you experienced.
Seabassius wrote:
I missed what the issue was, can you elaborate? I had some photos I took with the z5ii with a custom profile and did raw plus jpegs and when I went to edit the raws I couldn't get them back to a normal state from which to start. I assume I was doing something wrong. Is it related to that?
p.1 #9 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
RoamingScott wrote:
Typically you would want to import your raw files “with camera settings“ to LR so that it can approximate what Nikon is doing in camera. If you do that using a custom recipe with Zf files, the values LR estimates are completely screwed up. Those messed up settings would be essentially the original settings for the raw, sounds kind of like what you experienced.
Yeah that would explain what I was seeing. I'll look at in DXO and see I notice a difference.
p.1 #10 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
@RoamingScott nicely done! I work a lot with film and love everything about it. It pisses me off immensley when people intentionally butcher colors to call the resulting crap "filmic". What you've shared here is actually what I would call filmic, especially the skintone and highlight handling.
p.1 #11 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
Thanks for this. I’ve tried it out a bit in random things and it seems really wonderful for still life objects, but skin tones look nothing like your example here. They’re contrasty and overly red. I’m on a Z6III. Do you have any insights into what I could be doing wrong?
p.1 #12 · Scott's Natura flexible color recipe for Nikon Z
jlafferty wrote:
Thanks for this. I’ve tried it out a bit in random things and it seems really wonderful for still life objects, but skin tones look nothing like your example here. They’re contrasty and overly red. I’m on a Z6III. Do you have any insights into what I could be doing wrong?
The only time I get red/crunchy skin using my own pasty self as an example is when I'm not EC to at least +1/3. Sometimes I'll go to +1/2 in post. The tone curve was built to have the photo exposed to the right.
AD-L on Normal to High really brightens up skin and is a necessary part of the recipe.
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Thanks for the feedback!
Jcchavezrs wrote:
I had NX Studio open yesterday and played around with this recipe on a few images and sure enough, colors are as expected and look great 👍.
