The exact skin tones, contrast, and shadow color shift red! You get the contrast and deep shadow look, but with skin tones that maintain a natural tone, instead of looking like underexposed film. You can finally add grain that resembles 35mm or medium format film. These presets offer a simple process: decide on film stock, with either 1 or 2 stop push. It allows hybrid photographers the ability to easily match their digital files to their film scans, or for digital shooters to get the film look they want.
These presets are created to specifically emulate Kodak Portra film, when pushed in development, and scanned on the Fuji Frontier scanner. A long time film shooter, he longed to create digital presets that would match the tones from his Frontier scanner. You can also find their additional equally-fantastic presets here.Mastin Labs was created by Seattle photographer Kirk Mastin. The Portra Pushed film presets pack from Mastin Labs is available for purchase from their website for $99. Maybe if the presets were delivered via singing telegram?.I could say that the price is high, but knowing a little about the amount of time and effort that goes into these presets, it actually feels like a pretty fair price to me.This section is hard when you genuinely love everything about a product.What I Liked:Īctual film emulation, not just an over-edited "look." If you do happen to buy the presets, please make sure to comment below with some of your own images, I would love to see what other people shoot with this new tool. I have some editorial shoots coming up in the next month that I think this "pushed" look is especially well suited for.
My goal is to start shooting film by the end of this year, and I am looking forward to being able to match my scans up almost seamlessly with my digital files. In case you couldn't tell, I really like these presets. They also include Kirk Mastin's excellent soft/hard shadow and highlight adjustments as well. The pack includes presets for Portra 160, 400, and 800, pushed +1 and +2 stops. The new Portra Pushed presets continue that legacy of subtlety and accuracy, doing an excellent job of giving you that slightly over-processed effect, without ending up look like you set all of your Lightroom sliders to 100. What that means is they tend to be extremely close to the film stocks they're emulating, and they don't go overboard with crazy fade effects or wild levels of saturation and contrast. I love Mastin Labs presets because they're originally designed for hybrid shooters who work with both film and digital, to get as close a match between their film shots and their digital files as possible. It's a technique that film shooters have been using for decades, and it's a look that a lot of popular film presets are using as a starting point before going way over the deep end. This typically results in a more contrasty image with more, and sometimes some funky, oversaturating of colors (among other things). Push processing film is the practice of "overdeveloping" less sensitive film to increase the exposure. Check it out my review of the pack after the jump. Today they're releasing their latest preset pack, Portra Pushed. Mastin Labs out of Seattle is the creator of some of my favorite film emulation presets for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.