20 Feb VSCO Film Pack 03 – Love it!

I’ve been working on images for my Seattle archive the last couple weeks. Mid last week, during a facebook break from editing, I saw that Visual Supply Co had put out a new film pack, Film 03 Instant. Currently in my closet I have a polaroid 600, sx-70, fuji instax, instant back for my holga, instant back for my hasselblad. But the last time I used any of those was, wow…probably three to four years ago. When I think about that I get a little sad. Anyway, being extremely fond of instant, I decide to purchase the film pack for lightroom. I’m a big fan of VSCO, I use both Film Packs 1 and 2 for my post-processing these days. I immediately do the install but hadn’t planned on tooling around with the presets until I was finished with my Seattle archive. Well, ha! That thought didn’t last long. One quick little peek and I was in love. Next thing I knew I was creating “instant” virtual copies of several images in my Seattle database. Take a look, what do you think?

The only bad thing about this film pack is that there are soooooo many options, Well, ok, it’s not so much of a bad thing, but it certainly takes the “no post” of traditional instant camera photography completely out of the equation. Here’s a pretty simple, basic photo of a flower taken from raw file to a tiny fraction of the various emulsion looks.

Clockwise from upper left, straight raw, raw adjusted for standard contrast, color; Fuji Fp-3000b HC; Time-Zero Polaroid (Expired) ++, Fuji Fp-100c Negative +, Fuji Fp-3000b Negative ++