The Girl In A Pillow

[fjrabon]

Fuji X100T
f/2.8, SS 1/60, ISO 1000 -2/3 stop EC
Classic Chrome JPEG setting in camera
straight out of the camera

 

[Derrel]

This is a lovely rendering of what I imagine early morning window light would look like! A nice white on the brightest part of the comforter, a great rendering of the paint on the window sill!, highlight on the lamp in the background has a nice muted look to it, pretty good "D-max" for the darkest tones to give it that chrome look...skin tone has a slightly warm,ruddy look to it...overall a nice color rendering for this peaceful scene. It's subtle. It's a good mapping of what I imagine the scene brightness range was into an 8-bit JPEG space if the idea is to make it look like say, Ektachrome 100 Professional, or another older 1980's era E-6 slide film.

 

[weepete]

^^ What derrel said. Also I love the way you've kept some detail in the hair and the texure in the curtains.

Nice shot!

 

[paigew]

Great shot. Love the warm tones


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[Gary A.]

I hear a lot of good stuff about the Classic Chrome. (Too bad I only shoot RAW.)

 

[fjrabon]

This is a lovely rendering of what I imagine early morning window light would look like! A nice white on the brightest part of the comforter, a great rendering of the paint on the window sill!, highlight on the lamp in the background has a nice muted look to it, pretty good "D-max" for the darkest tones to give it that chrome look...skin tone has a slightly warm,ruddy look to it...overall a nice color rendering for this peaceful scene. It's subtle. It's a good mapping of what I imagine the scene brightness range was into an 8-bit JPEG space if the idea is to make it look like say, Ektachrome 100 Professional, or another older 1980's era E-6 slide film.

Yeah, I've tried a lot of film simulations over the years. I really like VSCO's, both for mobile (VSCOcam) and desktop plug-ins (VSCOfilm) but Fuji's Classic Chrome is easily the best, IMO. Their Velvia is also great if you want Velvia pop. T0 my eyes Classic Chrome is not an exact repro of kodachrome, like a lot of reviews state, but is gorgeous in its own right. It's a film sim that isn't simulating anything in particular, it takes its cues from slide films of the era in general, but isn't exactly any one of them.

The greatness of it though, comes from the fact that it essentially allows you to shoot like you shot with slide films, that is, minimal post, subtle colors. Where it really shines though is that the Fuji has expanded DR mode, which essentially (as best as I can tell) does something sort of like very subtle HDR via variable ISO (base exposure has to be at ISO 400 or 800, and then it applies lower ISOs to the portions that are close to being blown out) within a single image, to emulate film dynamic range, and how film responds to highlights by compressing them rather than clipping them.

Combine the look of Classic Chrome, the expanded DR mode and the X100T's sharpness (no AA filter) and it's a near perfect recipe for gorgeous pictures you can get straight out of the camera JPEG wise.

 

[fjrabon]

I hear a lot of good stuff about the Classic Chrome. (Too bad I only shoot RAW.)

I was a RAW only guy prior to this, then I started shooting RAW+JPEG with the X100T just to compare, and I found that unless I was doing B&W I almost always preferred Classic Chrome to what I could get out of my own conversion.Or at the very least it was so close that why bother with post.

If I'm shooting with a potential eye to B&W or weird things are going on, I'll switch on RAW+JPEG. But I'd say 90% of the time or more, I'm fundamentally happy with the straight out JPEG.

 

[fjrabon]

^^ What derrel said. Also I love the way you've kept some detail in the hair and the texure in the curtains.

Nice shot!

Thanks. That was all the lighting though. I just woke up and saw some pretty light, and my prettier girlfriend and just tried not to screw it up. No post, just -2/3 EC and snap.