Background:
I have spent enormous time in front of my computer tuning some styles for Capture One, partly out of curiosity and partly, well, as a part of my hobby. I have shared them freely through couple of my websites in an effort to spark the community to share DIY styles for Capture One. I thought, why not share them here, maybe a forum is better place for sharing and discussing DIY-styles.
I don't claim them to be perfect, but I have tried to make my styles balanced and as useful as possible. Some of them are based on a real film look and I have tried to emulate them according to my (hopefully) increasing abilities with Capture One, but they always are a bit of a compromise. My aim is not matching the film perfectly but get the aesthetics/look as close as possible. I only use the color wheel to adjust the styles (even in black and white styles that try to emulate the luminosity of different colors) so I am not touching different color curves. For tone curves I usually use linear curve.
The styles are downloadable as zip-files from my Google Drive as I do not know other places to store the files.
I hope someone finds these shared styles useful, but I also hope to get ideas to improve them or generate new ones in the future. And I want to encourage others to make and share their own DIY-styles or perhaps fine-tune the ones I share here. And if you find some of these useful, why not show us some photos processed with them.
As an additional note, these are meant to be used for raw-files, not on top of a jpeg-file.
About the shared style:
I fell in love with the look of this film when I saw photos that "MrLeica" had taken with this film. Studying it further I have made some differing iterations of a style mimicking this film, but my main favorite look has been around the ones I have seen developed with D96. So, this study and emulation of this film is based on this movie film taken into photography use and developed to be quite "edgy", or contrasty in the sense this film could be contrasty. The film is actually very flat, and it isn't the most flattering one, maybe, for the subjects. But still I like people photos post processed through this style and gladly share it for others to try. It certainly is different from the other black&white styles you find around.
I acknowledge the development affects a lot to the look of films like this and thus there is not one "right" emulation. In the end this is my "artistic" interpretation of the look.
The link to the style is here:
Eastman DoubleX D96
Eastman DoubleX D96 IMG_8076 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Eastman DoubleX D96 VMF20074 1 by Veijo, on Flickr