From escalator, Metropolitan Museum
Just as a note, I've begun to use PhotoKit from Pixel Genius for all my color conversion (this was a digital shot). It uses non-destructive layers; has a tremendous amount of burn / dodge features; i.e. with PowerRetouche changes are made to the background layer; yes you can create a copy of the background and work on that but you can't see what Retouche is doing then. Photokit is a set that in some ways overlaps the functionality of Retouche - but it never touches the background layer so you can always do things like add layer masks or change opacity of the Photokit layer.
The image was shot raw - the red / orange was pumped up, and then:
2 comments:
first thing I noticed - the "grain" looks artificial...
have you ever tried to use a scan from real grain and
overlay it? looks way better...
besides that, the tonality is pretty good for a conversion.
I do have samples from "real" grain that I can use and have in other digital shots - but not in this shot. I sort of liked the clumpy "artifical" grain - or was too lazy to bother tuning the picture. This is just a "one button" conversion with Photokit - without any tinkering.
I've also been able to make some pretty convincing infrared effects by using their contrast masking - channel mixing - and diffusion filters. That's still a manual process since you have decide what portion of the image - sky, grass etc. should be translated into. It's fun to fool with though.
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