Comments on: classic color look or craptastic look?

By: cabatl68

cabatl68 — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:23:19 +0000

For some reason the coloring of the picture of palm trees makes me think of the colorized “Gilligan’s Island” episodes.

By: Jason Hindle (@JasonHindleUK)

Jason Hindle (@JasonHindleUK) — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:40:11 +0000

Whenever I see some of the very best colour film photos in places like the Tate Modern, I see exposures that started with either a medium or large format rectangle and the colours can be superb and lifelike. Of course, I’m talking photos taken in the 80s and 90s when the film/colour science was at its most advanced. Digital can give us this on the smaller format and here Olympus does very well. Natural JPEG, with a few tweaks in Photoshop, often works for me.

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By: whbeebe

whbeebe — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:08:37 +0000

In reply to Marc Beebe.

Thanks. So you like the palm trees, do you? I’d ship a few to you, except I don’t think they’d do too well in your part of the world.

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By: Marc Beebe

Marc Beebe — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:03:55 +0000

Always remember that some of what we now think of as “the classic look of film” at the time was considered failing of its ability to get colours or exposure right and a tendency to be soft and grainy because that was how it was.
As such, you can’t really do this wrong. :)
And I like the palm trees.

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