>>2995886>Is VSCO overrated?I think it's abused but not overrated
>here's my picture with X1 preset.Yeah that's a shitty example. VSCOCam presets can look very nice if you know how to work them. It seems Canon and Fuji colors play nice with VSCOCam. But then you're using Jpegs so you're under more pressure to get everything perfect in camera. Not a bad thing I guess. There are a lot of people using the camera colours + vscocam workflow very nicely.
>Is it even okay to use presets in your opinion?Yes, as a starting ground. Not as a one click wonder button. Presets are a huge part of helping defining your style. But they're a starting ground. I use my own presets I've been building the last two years but there's still a good 15-20 minutes on each image after that to make it look nice. Even then I let them sit for a week, come back with a fresh eye, and tweak them again before doing anything with them.
>Or everything should be done by your hand?Of course. Presets are just step one, not the whole package.
>You can find better stuff here:There are MUCH better examples of VSCO then this.
I use their Lightroom presets, but not often. I've started with one or two presets I like a while ago and kept tweaking them until they became my own thing. It helps me keep my style consistent and I can focus on photographing instead of 40 hours in front of Lightroom a week. Attached example of a preset after about 10 minutes of work.
>>2996494>>2996502His photo is way overcooked but the WB is fine; he has obviously split-toned his image and needs to turn down the shadow saturation a bit, but Iif you think everything in an image has to be perfect within the bounds of WB and colour accuracy then maybe you should go back out with your D810 and 30 stop ND filter and take more oversaturated HDR photos of creeks and grass.
