any anon's do pet photography? I'm just starting to shift into it from doing wildlife and I'm struggling with learning how to work with artificial light and smaller spaces, I invested in a speedlight which has been a huge boon.
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Here's one I got of a bird. My first thread here so I plan to dump a few of various subjects. Haven't done any editing on these so they aren't quite what they could be, but let me know what you think.
Been digging around online trying to figure out how to get that K64 look (big, punchy, saturated, picrel), but found basically nothing. Everyone either goes for K25 or just completely misses the saturation.
Not trying to do a perfect emulation or anything, I just want those insane saturated skin tones and deep blues, but every time I try, the edit falls apart. Feels like Lr/Ps just can’t push it far enough, like the digital files don’t have the room. Which makes no sense, since I’ve got a gallery full of scanned film that pulls it off.
Anyone here actually manage to get close? Or is it just a lost cause with digital?
>The theory of photography can be learned in an hour and the elements of practising it in a day... What cannot be learned is the sense of light, an artistic feeling for the effects of varying luminosity and combinations of it, the application of this or that effect to the features which confront the artist in you. What can be learned even less is the moral grasp of the subject — that instant understanding which puts you in touch with the model, helps you to sum him up, guides you to his habits, his ideas and his character and enables you to produce, not an indifferent reproduction, a matter of routine or accident such as any laboratory assistant could achieve, but a really convincing and sympathetic likeness, an intimate portrait. Was Nadar right? Could you really learn the basics of photography in an hour? And the rest of it is just artistic talent?
I've using the the same lab for the past 4 rolls and for some reason, the skins of the people that I shot came out looking so "reddish". While I understand that we're brown but we don't look this red irl.
top left - Kodak Ultramax 400 bottom left - Fuji 200 top right - Fuji Color 200 (different lab) bottom right - Vision3 250D all of 3 use Noritsu HS-1800
so the question is, what's the "problem here? is it because of the film stocks? is it the machine? is it the present the machine use? (idk how the process actually works) is it the chemical? and what should I do from now on? change the lab and the machine? or should I ask them to scan the negative back to me as well so I can add the colors myself (I have no idea how lightroom works but I assume I can download presets for each filmstocks to add the colors right?) THOUGHT?????????