Here is an example of a film photo compared with the digital TAP profile.Ĭan you tell which is film and which is digital? I can’t. My biggest hangup with Mastin Labs (a preset that I used for several years exclusively) was with all the changes in the HSL panel, once you started making adjustments things started getting pretty wonky really quickly. After you apply the profile, it is almost like working with a blank slate because you still have full freedom over the contrast and colors, so if something isn’t quite right with the RAW file, it is super easy to make adjustments. TAP is not a preset, but a profile in Lightroom, and does not make any changes to the HSL panel or Tone Curve panel in LR after application. I’ve used Jose Villa, Mastin Labs, KT Merry, Refined, and the Archetype Process and the clear winner (head and shoulders above) was the Archetype Process (TAP for short). I actually worked as an editor for other photographers for several years, and edited hundreds and hundreds of weddings using every film preset on the market. There were lots of presets out there, but many of them took a lot of work to match to film and still didn’t get me very close. When I started my career as a photographer I loved the look and feel of 120 film (still do) and found it was pretty difficult to replicate with a digital camera. What I have found over the years is that with the right understanding of light, a good camera body/lens set up, and a light touch in Lightroom you can get the images to look indistinguishable from film. The truth is, these days I shoot mostly digital (I actually sold my medium format camera back at the beginning of the pandemic) and honestly I sometimes had a hard time remembering which photos are film and which are digital until I look at the filenames. I get a lot of questions from other photographers about my editing workflow and what my medium format film set up is. My Editing Workflow (And my Favorite Film Emulation Preset)
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