Film emulation on the Sigma fp, continued
I've spent a few days during lock-down studying some Kodak 500T film scans I have from last year after getting inspired by the work cinematographer Steve Yedlin has done to make digital capture look like film.
Most of the visual research was spent on grain size, image resolution, and the behavior of halation or "blooming" of the bright parts where light bounces back up into the cyan layer of a negative that becomes red in development.
Using Davinci Resolve's built in grain and glow tools, these are my film emulation results so far.
The base color look comes from a power grade that Juan Melara created that takes native camera colors and makes them behave like a scanned film negative that's been printed onto Kodak 2393 print stock.
From there, I eyeballed grain on Kodak 500T and 250D scans and then dialed in the glow behavior based on other film photos I've taken.
It's not meant to re-create a particular stock 100% scientifically, but rather evoke the filmic feeling as another aesthetic option with my favorite attributes from a few different stocks.
With no available labs in the US who process Kodak cinema film using ECN-2, this is the next best thing :)
Film emulation on the Sigma fp, continued
I've spent a few days during lock-down studying some Kodak 500T film scans I have from last year after getting inspired by the work cinematographer Steve Yedlin has done to make digital capture look like film.
Most of the visual research was spent on grain size, image resolution, and the behavior of halation or "blooming" of the bright parts where light bounces back up into the cyan layer of a negative that becomes red in development.
Using Davinci Resolve's built in grain and glow tools, these are my film emulation results so far.
The base color look comes from a power grade that Juan Melara created that takes native camera colors and makes them behave like a scanned film negative that's been printed onto Kodak 2393 print stock.
From there, I eyeballed grain on Kodak 500T and 250D scans and then dialed in the glow behavior based on other film photos I've taken.
It's not meant to re-create a particular stock 100% scientifically, but rather evoke the filmic feeling as another aesthetic option with my favorite attributes from a few different stocks.
With no available labs in the US who process Kodak cinema film using ECN-2, this is the next best thing :)