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A slight change in white balance, hue or contrast is often enough to even out these differences. Leica and Fuji fanboys won’t like to hear this, but when editing pictures to get a certain look it doesn’t really matter what lens or camera you are using. Camera and lens don’t really matter Sony A7III | Zhong Yi 135mm 1.4 | f/1.4 Furthermore, a preset may work well for lens A on camera B but can give completely funky results when using lens C on camera D.Īlso, the input is important: if you took a dull, low contrast picture no preset will turn it into an amazing high contrast one and it will be similarly hard to get a soft boudoir look from a scene with harsh light. I did gather/create some presets for myself but they are often merely a starting point. Their advertising will claim they will easily give your pictures the “best”, “timeless”, “unique”, “high-quality”, “authentic”, “stylish”, “modern”, “retro”, “vintage” look that you want.
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Many people will try to sell you presets for more or less money (some are also free). Not because I think it is the best software out there to do it (I don’t know which is) but because it is the software I have most experience with and can get to the results I want with relative ease.īut this also means that some parts of this article may be less useful to you if you are using a different software to process your images. I do almost all of the editing in Lightroom.
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There are endless ways to edit your images. Software Leica M10 | Voigtlander VM 75mm 1.5 | f/5.6 I can personally recommend two books on this topic: “The Essence of Photography” and “The Art of Photography”, both by Bruce Barnbaum, cover these topics in great detail and understandable even to those who did not grow up shooting B&W film. Same would also apply to a digital B&W camera the slight benefits in resolution and dynamic range over a color bayer array sensor could never outweigh these massive disadvantages to me.īut even if you are in the same position: it helps a lot to get some understanding on “pure” B&W photography even if you only want to convert your color images. Unlike David I have not been shooting analogue B&W film and I also have little interest in doing so, as that would mean having to fiddle with color correction filters all the time. General Remarks Background Information Leica M10 | Voigtlander VM 15mm 4.5 II | f/8.0