Rather than speed up the process of post, the choice just became a hinderance. If you’ve ever installed one of these film simulation packs into Lightroom you’ll probably be familiar with the impact of all of a sudden having hundreds of presets to try. Unfortunately all that happened was that I got bogged down in the choices. I bought them in the hope that they would provide me with a good starting point for making my images look how I like them a little quicker.
The last set of film presets I tried was one of the VSCO packs. In fact on one or two occasions I’ve bitten the bullet, though to date it hasn’t gone to plan. As such it has crossed my mind on a number of occasions to try some of these film simulation presets. I can’t shoot a wedding only on film – as much as I’d like to, I just shoot too high a volume at weddings for it to be viable. That being said, it’s mid wedding season for me, and though I only have a few booked this year, I have found myself once again getting bogged down in the annual process of relearning/remembering how to make my wedding photos look how I like them to. I shoot film, so when I want my photos to look like they were shot on film, for the most part I just shoot the stuff. So when RNI emailed me, my initial response was fairly negative (there’s a pun for you!). The point of mentioning this is to highlight that I’m not one to just take things from companies on a whim because the offer is there. These things are so far outside of my remit, yet they seemingly wanted to shower me with them. One company literally hounded me about trying their photo realistic photo backdrops.
I get contacted by some pretty unusual companies, at least unusual for a blog that’s largely about film cameras. Does it work? Well, RNI make the somewhat audacious claim that it makes a “film simulator more convincing than actual film”! Whilst I shall definitely come back to that claim a little later, first I feel it appropriate to touch on how I’ve come to be experimenting with these simulators in the first place. In case you’ve lived under an analogue rock for the last few years, the idea behind these types of simulators is that they take the standard output from a digital camera and attempt to make it look like film. RNI or Really Nice Images are responsible for a series of film simulators for Lightroom, Photoshop and within some sort of app.
Do you know which is which? How hard is it to tell? I shall tell you which is which later in the post… Credit Dustin Veitch Some of them are film (obviously digitised), and some of them are digital, some of which have been made to look like film. What do you think of the 6 images below? Are they film or digital.
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