#MASTIN LABS PORTRA PUSHED PRO#
All of the following photos are processed using Rebecca Lily Pro Set IV and made using Fuji X Series cameras and lenses. Let’s look at the photos already! Quick side note. Rebecca Lily Premium Color Grading presets allow that to happen beautifully, with a huge variety of options to help you convey whatever mood or emotional tone you are trying to get across in your photographs. It’s a very invisible editing approach, which if you read my article about Chasing Trends, you’ll know I’m a huge advocate of because my personal opinion is that for a photograph to be great you can’t notice the editing that has been done, the subject, mood and emotional tone/connection are what have to shine. Nothing ever feels overprocessed, nothing feels heavy handed. There really is something special about the way subtle color shifts and tints just seem to peek into my images using these presets. But I will say Rebecca Lily gives much finer control over the use of color to impact the mood and feeling of my photographs, which I really enjoy. I won’t say one is better than the other, they are just different in their approach. With a little patience (no pun intended) and practice it began to click and now I have to say that Rebecca Lily is a permanent part of my toolbox right alongside Mastin Labs. Maybe I’m just dumber than most, but for some reason it took me a while to learn and understand how the Rebecca Lily Presets work. You have to take time to learn and understand it. Within those tools were a huge number of very subtle variations on themes, from pastels and bright colors to dark and moody, and I just needed to spend more time learning the tools.Īs with anything worth doing, you have to work at it.
#MASTIN LABS PORTRA PUSHED FULL#
I also had to learn and understand that while Mastin was centered around giving you true to life film stock emulations, including color palette, Rebecca Lily was a full on color grading suite of tools. You see, within the Rebecca Lily preset packs you end up with something like 167 different variations on the presets that you have at your fingertips…within each preset pack… Compare that with Mastin and how very limited your options are and it was no wonder I was having trouble. To learn what each one of the presets was doing to my photos and to understand what the multitude of presets actually were. So I slowly started to take time to experiment with them. But after putting it aside for a while and continuing to use Mastin Labs daily, it kept nagging at me that I had to be missing something with those Rebecca Lily preset packs. Unfortunately I had the same experience with this newest Pro Set IV. Now if you were waiting for the part of the article where I say, “ I purchased Pro Set IV and it suddenly clicked and now my editing world was completely solved! It’s like a slice of Heaven in a preset!“….well….sadly that didn’t happen. I loved the way all of these sample photos looked and I had learned a thing or two about my photography so, after a little thought and a lot of hesitation, I pulled the trigger again and purchased Pro Set IV. Until I saw sample images start showing up online for RL Pro Set IV and once again I was completely captivated. Then I found Mastin Labs and felt at home. I felt like I just couldn’t make them work for my images…every now and then I’d get lucky and I’d like an edit using the RLPCG system, but most often it was just frustrating and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I played with the presets non stop on my images for about 3 days and became super frustrated…. So I pulled the trigger, pulled out the credit card and made the purchase. It was the Pro Set III pack and I remembered how absolutely mesmerizing I found all of the sample images. What you may NOT know however is that before getting into Mastin Labs, I had purchased a set of presets from the amazing Rebecca Patience, creator of the Rebecca Lily Premium Color Grading System. As many of you may recall, I’ve been a long time user of Mastin Labs presets as the base for most of my editing workflow.
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