PatB Photography

I have been looking around for some ideas on creating a classic 50’s look for a 50s pinup project I am working on.  By chance I found Lightroom Preset Heaven website, which has some very good presets that I through would only be possible in Photoshop.

After searching through some of the available presets I found some vintage styles but what really caught my attention were some excellent B&W presets that emulate real black & white film emulsions.  These include Fuji Neopan, Ilford FP4 & HP5 as well as Kodak HIE (Infrared) and the all time classic Tri-X.

This got me thinking perhaps he had created a Lightroom definitive Kodak Kodachrome 64 slide film preset.  After some searching I found that he had produced a preset that looks very promising with vivid hues.

Follow any of the links from this page to find the relevant presets and many more besides.

This preset may require some fine adjustments to get the right look, which I’ve quoted below as much for my one quick reference as anything else

Kodak  Kodachrome 64.lrtemplate:

This preset is the base for the set.  The preset will set you basic tone values to
preset levels.

Kodak  Kodachrome 64 Auto.lrtemplate:

This preset utilizes all of the base preset, with the exception that it allows LR to
apply is autotone feature to the photograph.  Will tend to over-expose in this
preset.

Kodak  Kodachrome 64 Curve.lrtemplate:

This preset will utilize the exposure setting of you photo at time of application. 
This preset primarily efects the color mixer, tone curve and clarity, sharpening
and noise reductions.

Hints for use:

• Utilize white balance dropped to adjust photo to best appearance.
• Work with contrast and brightness to get proper look.  VERY important for this preset.  Will usually need one or the other sliders adjusted.
• Utilize fill and recovery to bring out details.
• Increase black levels to bring out more texture, lower contrast if taking black much past 15.
• To give a pre 1970 look, split tone highlights to hue=56 sat=40, shadows hue=56 sat=14, bal=0.  For 70’s era look split tone highlights to hue=236 sat=18.  Shadows hue=536 sat=32, balance zero.  Play around with those values +/- 10 to find best look.

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Pat

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