Thanks guys. Very informative as always.
Coot, I like the look of the kid. The highlight shapes
Nicely his face while the sky is not blowned, where the subject is the subject
(and not the background).
What I find strange in the end,
Is that we have a lot of luts offers everywhere, film stock
Emulation...but the contexts?
I mean, a grade should be an intention, and that intention
Is indeed linked to the subject or product or brand's
Corporate image.
For ex if I see a Recuenco advertising of a certain perfume
Brand, I could verify (and it's logical) that they graded
Almost flat, with all the shots turning around the whites
With very little contrast.
And this is no accident, but because it corresponds to
The brand's corporate imagery. So nothing is never and
Should never be free but intentional and for a unique purpose.
this LUTs orgy we see now everywhere gives fast
"pleasing image", but unpersonals and often free.
Daf, If by "Yankee Puritain Workaholic ancestors" you meant, "hard work" kind
of vintage mentality, I beleive too hard work pays. At least, it's the only way I know
to understand how things work and eventually being able to be creative.
Knowledge is freedom.
Now puritain? naaa...let's just be bloody decadent. Sins and lust.
(no red Little devil smiley in this forum?)
Now, I'm studdying Aces. Far from being knowledgable
With Aces workflow. Still very much experimenting, guessing,
playing like a kid in legoland. But
Yes, this time it is not a mirage or false magic properties.
It gives a lot more room to work with. Not kidding.
And also avoids many unconsistencies between proprietary
Formats and camera brands matrix. This Aces
Workflow is worth a serious studdy.
I find way easier to match colors between different camera's profiles.
And it gives more room to avoid clipping in highlights and can even recover
what in other spaces was lost but without having to compromise on mids and lows.
In other words, there is much more to play with in all the range.
Exr is heavy to store
But I think the zip compression does a fair balanced. Or
Directly work from the R3Ds. (and try to figure-out who's got
It right, still very little info on Aces workflows, could find great
Stuff in french, or inside the Scratch pipeline...but we lack more
Imputs on Aces.)
I beleive Aces is the future, really.
Ps: I think however that the intent to standardized all proprietary Raw into the openEXR for all, wich makes sense, is not going to work
(I mean be widely adopted) in the sense that storage becomes serious and beyond the range of many users.