Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Sat Dec 2 14:38:43 2006
References: <000a01c71660$62980570$6401a8c0@asus930>

I agree with Hoppy. If you need to work at making digital look like  
film, it tells me the preferred look of photographic images is that  
made with film. I love PS and digital cameras of which I have a large  
investment. But when I want a photo to have a certain traditional  
look, I have a few very nice M bodies and lenses for that.

Len


On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:22 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Philippe, I agree that the altered shot is  more atmospheric and I  
> am very enthusiastic about photoshop, too.
> But I am the only one here struck by the incongruence of working to  
> make digital images look just like film?
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org  
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Philippe Orlent
> Sent: Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:26
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
>
> This is a photograph that I already showed exactly as below here. I
> shot it on Fuji NPS160, with professional development, but had it
> scanned commerially on low res: all flattened out.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y4o8pq
> or bigger:
> http://tinyurl.com/tbwgw
>
>
>
> This is the same shot after I let Alien Skin (and some minor
> additional PS alterations) have a go at the original scan today:
>
> as big as above:
> http://tinyurl.com/y373rf
>
> !!! the big ones are in Adobe RGB !!!
>
> Isn't the 2nd one much more distinctive and doesn't it have a lot
> more character? Or am I just overenthousiastic?
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> Op 2-dec-06, om 20:55 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I feel the same way. I just like the way film looks. Digital, to
>> me, seems
>> snapshot-ish, probably because hundreds of millions of people are
>> taking
>> snapshots with them as we speak. I'll give your plug-in a try when
>> I get my
>> on-the-way Mac and PS CS2 set up Tuesday night.
>>
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Philippe
>> Orlent
>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:28 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
>>
>>
>> It's a plug in intended to 'imitate' that good ole film look in
>> digital photography. It does it amazingly well, fast, for about any
>> film you can imagine, in color and in B&W and is tweakable in a lot
>> of parameters, so you can create your own 'signature'  for personal
>> settings that can be saved. I converted a digital shot to the Ektar
>> 25 look, added some grain and deeped the shadows, put a soft pink
>> filter on it and then made it a bit warmer. The photo gained a lot in
>> quality due to this. In no time at all.
>> I never liked digital photography just because of that: undistinctive
>> color profiles unless with a lot of effort and work in PS. And now
>> its solved.
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 2-dec-06, om 19:07 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> What does it do?
>>>
>>> Jeffery Smith
>>> New Orleans, LA
>>> http://www.400tx.com
>>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Philippe
>>> Orlent
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:17 AM
>>> To: LUG Group
>>> Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
>>>
>>>
>>> Just downloaded this PS Plug in. This is one piece of nifty  
>>> software!
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Alien Skin Exposure)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Alien Skin Exposure)