All You Need To Know About POST PROCESSING Film ft. Negative Lab Pro

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you still have questions then just leave a comment. ✌

[@thefilmdaddy]

Thank you for sharing this man! Honestly it’s refreshing for a photographer to be so open about how they achieve their style 👏 a lot of my friends swear by Negative Lab, so I definitely need to try it one day.

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

I don't make a secret of how I get my results. D In the end, everyone has his own taste and his own vorstellugn how a picture has to look. so I do not worry. 😄NLP is really so good I can really recommend it.

[@ReimannPembroke]

Great video dude! It was really cool to watch you go through and edit the photos to your liking in fast forward! I really enjoy the way you edit your photos!

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

I'm glad you liked it. I thought that one photo is hardly enough to understand how the workflow works for different scenes. For me it was also important to have a consistent workflow for different film stocks. That you always have similar results so that everything looks coherent. :D

[@mamiyaonfilm]

Really interesting how hard it was, at least in my case, finding someone that explains in detail and actually shows the process of tweaking the colours of shadows and highs, which is where most of the creative aesthetic of the photo appears, no one stops to show how they work with it, but you did. Really appreciate it, and really liking your style!

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

you're welcome. Glad I could help you. Most people show only rudimentary how they achieve the look of their pictures but somehow I never got along with it. But the important thing is the repeatability of the results no matter with what film. only then is a tutorial complete. ✌️

[@JayRegular]

thanks for the tutorial Dan! I will have to revisit this video when I get around to use NLP for film

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

thanks to you jay. :D If you ever have questions you can just write me. ✌️

[@alexdulac7824]

I've always wondered how to get such overexposed images without the highlights burning out. Thank you!

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

Yes, that was also what stopped me the most. counter intuition, you have to edit the shadows. :D

[@cordurajohnson1835]

this is certainly really good for fashion shootings. i'll try it out right away. ✨✨

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

Oh yes that would certainly be a good fit. You can like to tag me on Insta when you have achieved good results.

[@Bonsees]

Awesome workflow video! We have similar ways of editing on NLP 😂 I stopped converting to tiff when I self scan because of space. I think colour correction using CMYK comes directly from how photographers used to edit their negatives when printing in the darkroom. I really wanna try that someday haha

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

that's a funny coincidence if we have a similar workflow. :D Oh yeah, I'd love to do darkroom printing sometime too. But I still have far too much respect for it. :D

[@shred3005]

The tennis player in the red shirt in the Canon ad was John Newcombe, a famous Australian professional tennis player of the 1970s. That ad would have been around the height of his career or soon afterwards when he was a well known face of tennis globally. Great workflow video BTW !

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

thanks, cool good trivia, didn't know this tennis player was really famous. :D

[@nineteenseventy4588]

I can‘t find your video with the preset anymore? Was it deleted?

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

nope its still there. Just follow my link i have an extra column for the recipe. linktr.ee/thebignegative

[@joshmcdzz6925]

hmm!!! you can get the same look with digital if you have to edit your film negatives. I guess the only benefit of film is just the feeling the photographer gets out of it and has nothing to do with the looks unless you get into the territory of pushing and pulling. I never thought we would edit film photos just the way I do with digital.

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

Some things can be well replicated nowadays with good cameras. Color, for example, you're absolutely right. However, even after all these years, Adobe, for instance, has not introduced competent tools for good grain or halation. Also, the color settings in Lightroom are so limited that certain colors can never come out the same as with film, just similar.

[@Nitidus]

Keep in mind, the negative isn't and never was the "actual image", as in the final work of art. That's always been the _print_ that you make of it, of course after doing color corrections and retouch. The negative itself is just equivalent to a RAW file. It's not "pure" or anything to not edit film, it's simply unfinished work.

[@Blackmind0]

mein lab in der city nutzt einen noritsu 1100 scanner, persönlich will ich das was der film kann und gibt, keine änderung...für mich wäre sonst der Sinn eines bestimmten analogen Films nicht gegeben, dann kann ich gleich digital fotografieren und leg einen look drauf...auch bei SW nutze ich bestimmte Filme aus bestimmten Gründen, da mach ich sogar die Entwicklung selber und wenn mir ein Bild besonders gefällt, mach ich auch die Vergrößerung noch selber und erst wenn ich die habe, gibt es einen digitalen scan, der dem papierbild angepasst wird..lg BM

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

Das ist echt gut wenn du ein Lab hast das tatsächlich auch gut scannen kann. Mein Lab scannt nur JPG und das nicht besonders gut. Ich hatte sie am Anfang oft benutzt um ein Gefühl zu bekommen wie die Filme überhaupt aussehen sollen. Prinzipiell kann man aus einen Negativ auch nur das herausbekommen was es geben kann und das ist nicht mal ansatzweise so flexibel wie eine "normale" Raw Datei. Wenn man also die Bilder bearbeitet arbeitet man dann genauso in einen Rahmen wie es ein Lab macht. Dort werden ja durch ein Voreingestelltes Profil am ende auch Kontraste und Weißabgleich verändert nur das man wenn man selbst scannt eben alles selbst machen muss. Ich finde den Workflow es erst analog zu vergrößern und dann einzuscannen auch echt genial. Ist der authentischste weg ein Negativ zu digitalisieren. 👌

[@Blackmind0]

@@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel ich denke es ist ein wenig " Gewohnheit ", wie Filme retour kommen. Analog mach ich seit 1983. Gab ja nix anderes. Früher hat man nicht darüber nachgedacht, was mit dem Film passiert. Farbfilm gekauft, fotografiert, abgegeben und dann abgeholt. Und der look war immer gleich bei gleichem Film. Erst viel später hab ich nach mehr Beschäftigung mit dem Thema gemerkt, es kann Unterschiede geben. SW sowieso, da hab ich ein paar Jahre später mit der DUka begonnen. Letztendlich vergleiche ich persönlich nicht analog mit digital. Zu groß sind die Unterschiede. Analog mag man wegen Einfachheit der Bilder ( vielleicht).Digital wegen der Möglichkeiten. Bei Portraits ist es zb mittlerweile so, das ich sie lieber analog mag. Diese brutale Schärfe, jede Pore, jedes kleinstes Etwas zu sehen und dann wieder zu bearbeiten, nervt. Und ich hab festgestellt, die Modelle mögen die analoge " Schärfe" lieber. Ist einfach geschmeidiger. Liebe Grüße BM

[@mattkennedy2014]

he dropped the secret sauce omg

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

The sauce is too good to keep just for myself. :D

[@robifleming]

Thank you for showing this! I love your look! I have my own Fujifilm preset that I use sooc. Really brings out the pastels.

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

it was a pleasure.Yes recipes directly from the camera are also really good only the last bit of control over colors and contrast is still missing. Therefore, I want to work on a RAW preset. :D

[@thorstenjaspert9394]

Important for the right printing in the way you want is a lab with colour management and the option and disable automatic colour correction. Then you have good chances that your prints will be as you want it. With an ICC profiles of different photo papers, laser imagesetters and ink printers you can make a soft proof with Lightroom and Photoshop. With a soft proof, you have a good forecast of how your picture looks on the paper.

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

Thanks for the tip. I can do the whole proofign with my small local lab. the big lab that serves all of germany does not accept special requests. However, the development + prints cost just 3.30€. so I have always seen the prints as a free gift. :D

[@thorstenjaspert9394]

@@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel I have sent you a message on your Instagram account with a lab address.

[@erichstocker8358]

Very nicely demonstrated!! Thank you!!!!!

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

my pleasure. 😀