- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Another color-to-monochrome conversion. The original digital negative was taken with the standard kit zoom lens on my GX7, recently, at a friend's wedding. This particular shot was of the father of the bride, who had traveled from Japan to Oregon to see his Japanese daughter married to an American; since he didn't speak a word of English, here he's getting a simultaneous translation from a younger family friend who is bilingual -
The black and white conversion was done in Lightroom, using the X-Equals preset/plugin for a relatively rare (over here, anyway) but cool older film, Fortepan 100 - originally made in Hungrary by the now-defunct Forte film company. Fortepan 100 was both fine-grained and relatively high contrast - an obscure competitor to Fujifilm's Acros, but with slightly different tonal characteristics -
It came out like this -
Father of the Bride by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr
- which works much better for me.
The black and white conversion was done in Lightroom, using the X-Equals preset/plugin for a relatively rare (over here, anyway) but cool older film, Fortepan 100 - originally made in Hungrary by the now-defunct Forte film company. Fortepan 100 was both fine-grained and relatively high contrast - an obscure competitor to Fujifilm's Acros, but with slightly different tonal characteristics -
It came out like this -
Father of the Bride by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr
- which works much better for me.
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