Critique Welcomed It never rains in California

Chris Dodkin

Chris Dodkin

West Coast Correspondent
Well, almost never these days - first real rain in 6 months this weekend - luckily, mostly over night

Gave me a great backdrop to shoot against with Brenna, early Sunday.

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Brenna

Alley, North Park SD

Fuji X-T1 and 35mm Lens
VSCO XP Sensia in PP

She so hates taking the trash out! :D

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And one quick Neopan conversion from NIK SilverFX

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People dress differently for rain round these parts....Seriously, no rain for SIX MONTHS? I love rain. I just couldn't live in California, even if all the girls dressed like this.

Good shots, though, Chris. Perfect toning for après deluge.
 
Rob MacKillop said:
People dress differently for rain round these parts....Seriously, no rain for SIX MONTHS? I love rain. I just couldn't live in California, even if all the girls dressed like this.

Good shots, though, Chris. Perfect toning for après deluge.
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Thanks Rob - people have no concept of what to do when it rains here - many/most don't own anything waterproof!

On a serious note we're in the middle of the worst drought anyone can remember, so we could do with a lot more rain.

Pete Askew said:
Gorgeuous tones and palette Chris and the reflection works very well. The thoughtful pose and the monochrome go well together.
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Thanks Pete - the VSCO Sensia XP with a little tweak to keep it cooler looking, is working really well
 
Great shots Chris....

VSCO...???...is this a Photoshop plug-in...???
 
Douglas McMann said:
Great shots Chris....

VSCO...???...is this a Photoshop plug-in...???
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Thanks Douglas

Yep VSCO have been busy building profiles for traditional films, so that you can apply these to your digital files and get an authentic film feel to your images.

They fully integrate into the RAW converters for Photoshop and Lightroom as Pete mentioned - and allow you to tweak each film look just as you would any file you're working on

Powerful stuff.

So in the case of the first two images above I used their profile for a cross proceed Fuji Sensia film - which is an out of production slide film

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So unless someone has a few rolls stored away in a fridge - the only way to shoot with the unique look of that film, cross processed, is something like the VSCO film profiles.

The only thing I did do differently this time around was to take the film grain out of the profile, giving me the color look of the film, but without the addition of the film grain - The grain reduces the available image detail, and I wanted to keep that detail in this case.
 
Wonderful images again where 1 and 3 are most likeable to me. It kind of gives a little extra to the beautiful girl when you involves an environment. Number two is of course beautiful too, but in another context I'd say. Speaking about rain, we do not know what that glowing thing up in the sky looks like any more.:)
 
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