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First Impressions: Vintage Film Fade Presets by Chris Martin

Chris Gampat
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08/23/2012
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Photographer Chris Martin is extremely famous, and now he has released his own Lightroom and Photoshop Presets. We’ve talked about film simulation presets before in addition to reviewing CameraBag 2 and DXO Mark’s package, but Chris’s presets have to really be amongst the smartest I’ve ever played with providing you’ve mastered the dark art of metering and obtained a proper exposure beforehand.

From what i can tell so far, it basically takes your photos, analyzes the histogram, and does what it needs to to make it look like film that was pushed quite a bit. It gives you two different presets: color faded and black and white faded. Here are some samples; but we’ve got a full review in the works.

 

Original
Color Faded
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Faded. This preset has proven to me that it is the closest thing to pushed Kodak Ektachrome that there currently is available on the market. And it also reminded me of how much I miss the film and its renderings.
Original
Faded
original
Faded
original
Faded, approximately the same image as before
Original, this image had approximately the same exposure value as the original faded below

Full review to come!

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.