Using Film Candy to make Boring Shots Arty
Just a quick post for today, as I've lots on, and this is kind of a shameless plug post, but anyway. I often take simple shots that I use for embellishing blog posts, either here or on other sites. They're usually nothing fancy and usually something that I just do quickly because I'm writing in a hurry. One of the things I'll often do is give them a treatment of some kind to give them a stylised look which makes them more interesting. This is how my Film Candy presets sort of came about, and I've been using them in this context recently, so I thought I'd give you a quick example.
I just got this cool little character in the post (I love Danboard, by the way), and I was taking some shots to use on Flickr and to send to some people. I used my Fuji X-E1 with the 35mm lens, mostly at f1.4, which gave some nice bokeh. Once I got them into Lightroom, I was playing around with different looks, and I used the "Gelato" preset from my Film Candy 2 set on all of them. This gave the shots a nice, almost vintage effect, which was perfect for what I was trying to achieve.
I know some people don't like filters and effects, and I'm not saying that applying a look will fix a bad shot, but sometimes a little creative grading takes an ordinary scene and gives it a little something to let it stand out and look a little different.
Gelato is part of my Film Candy 2 set of presets which is available on my Download store.
