For two years I photographed my project ’seconds’ in black and white and I loved it. Though I knew that certain images would do better in colour, I never achieved the colours I liked with processing, I never took actually the effort to find them as black and white was easier and good enough for me.

That said, on daily base I look at thousands of images, many of them in colour, and I decided that I need some colour in my life as well, so I started to search for THE colour…

I found zillions of presets for photoshop, lightroom, capture one, and so on. All nice, but all trying to get this film look. I sincerely thought of buying a real (medium format) film camera but this post prevented me from buying one. Thank you Andy.

No presets for me though, too obvious, too much used by others. No real camera for me either. I came across this blog and realized that for what I wanted I shouldn’t look at photo-editing software but learn from cinematography.  

And so I did. After some playing and some new software, I finally found ‘my’ colour. Below the colour for my long exposure portraits; do you like it?