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:
This B&W look is not emulating anything existing look. This is my vision of a "perfect" black and white film. I have emulated lots of B&W films and they all have different and useful looks, but this is the look I would take with me to the desert isle. It has film kind of grain, but that probably is a thing that one wants to eliminate if grain is not suitable for the photos. I kinda love grain in B&W images as it gives more tonality to the image, but I also understand that grain might not a preferred element of people photographs.
The link to the style is here:
Mundane B&W
Couple of photos with this style:
Mundane B&W style VMF39025 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Mundane B&W style VZA_5373 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Mundane B&W style VMF43988 4 by Veijo, on Flickr
Mundane B&W style VZA_0142 1 by Veijo, on Flickr