OCOLOY Week 39

Sunday 6th of December 2015

I said last week that I was going to think about using a ‘Fuji Neopan 1600’ emulation for processing this week’s pictures. I decided to go ahead with this, and quite early on realised it’d mean having to keep it in mind when shooting, as it has a particular contrast and colour response that’s quite… ‘opinionated’. The usual preset I use has a more subtle aesthetic, and suits quite a wide variety of scenes, but this Neopan one certainly stamps a kind of grungy reportage feel on to the pictures.

I’m not sure I want to keep using it, primarily because it’s an additional thing to learn on top of the normal preset, which I’m still getting to grips with even if it is a bit more forgiving. Moreover, keeping in mind how the processing is going to affect the look of my pictures has an effect on what I choose to point the camera at. Obviously this is true with any kind of processing, but in this instance it feels at odds with what I (think I) want to say. It adds too much dirt.

So, interesting experiment, and perhaps something to come back to once the OCOLOY project is complete.

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