Shot with Nikon D5100 + AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR | Camera settings: 18 mm, f/6.3, ISO 400, 1/160 sec, 0.00 eV | RAW processed with Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2 (2013, Castres, France)
Tag: Nikon 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d’Albi
Pharaoh
Amsterdam crowd
Walking by the seaside
Seaside Walk
I’m trying to reinvent my photography. I mounted the Nikon kit lens on my D5100. I like the lens because it is light and easy to zoom. I shoot in RAW. To keep as close as possible to the analog photography of the past, I only worked on the light aspect of the ‘flat’ RAW. Contrast, Shadows, etc. But I did not use any sharpening or any noise reduction. I used the RAW (or DNG, ‘Digital NeGative’) as if it was an analog negative. In analog photography you can not ‘sharpen’ the print. And I guess you can not perform ‘noise/grain reduction’. So, no sharpening, no noise reduction. The noise of the sensor is retained and works a bit like the grain of film. I know noise and grain a somewhat different, but if you let the noise just be, and refrain from sharpening the picture, you get a nice soft image, which does resemble the analog film feel. Shot with Nikon D5100 AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR | Camera settings: 55 mm, f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/4000 sec, 0.00 eV | RAW processed with Lightroom 5 and DxO FilmPack 5 (2016, Egmond aan Zee)
Emma in the USA
Holy Trinity
The ‘kit lens’ Dog
Walk in Chinatown
5th Avenue
Utrecht Central Station 20:00
The analog treatment
Charlie shot with Film
Shot with a Nikon FM10 + 50mm f/1.4 Ai-S lens and Fujifilm Superia 200 film. Negative placed on a light table (Kaiser Slimlite LED Light Box) scanned with a Nikon D5100 + 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR + Hoya Close-up +4 HMC 52 mm filter. Further processed with Lightroom 5, sharpening, color correction and flattening the noise. Run through DxO Filmpack 5 with Fujifilm Superia 200 film (so we get Superia 200 squared:)
TrueGrain
I just bought TrueGrain. The website is saying the following about the product: TrueGrain is a pro-grade tool for accurately recapturing the aesthetics of black and white film with digital photography. My first go with the software below.
Flat RAW
Simple black & white conversion with Lightroom 5
Processed by TrueGrain with Kodak Professional TRI-X 400 + Film Size 56mm x 75mm
Processed by TrueGrain with Ilford HP5 Plus + Film Size 36mm x 24mm
Shot with Nikon D5100 AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR, 26 mm, f/4.5, ISO 800, 1/15 sec, -0.33 eV (2012)
Charlie shot with Film (Fujifilm Superia 200)
Another example of my first serious experiments to shoot with film. Charlie. As processed from color negative through Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2 to the final black & white end product.
The Fujifilm Superia 200 negative
Made into positive with the help of Lightroom 5
Crop and further enhance in Lightroom 5
Black & White processing with Silver Efex Pro 2
Charlie shot with Film. The end result
Shot with a Nikon FM10 + 50mm f/1.4 Ai-S lens and Fujifilm Superia 200 film. Negative placed on a light table (Kaiser Slimlite LED Light Box) scanned with a Nikon D5100 + 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR + Hoya Close-up +4 HMC 52 mm filter. Further processed with Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2.
The chemical forrest (shot with film)
One of my first serious experiments to shoot with film. Shot with a Nikon FM10 + (cheap) 35-80 mm lens and Fuji Superia 200 film. Negative placed on a light table (Kaiser Slimlite LED Light Box) scanned with a Nikon D5100 + 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6G VR + Hoya Close-up +4 HMC 52 mm filter. Further processed with Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2.