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.
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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.
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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. 6 A positive outcome, but do they look like film?.