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 film is an interesting subject to study. I started my study with more of an emulation than as an useful style, but in the process decided to make many compromises that sadly took something away from the film's look. I wanted this style to work well for nature related subjects and still look balanced, which my original more strict emulation did not achieve. This is why in the name of the style is "nature" first and Velvia 50 second. When using styles for nature subjects I think there is no way to tune the contrast right before hand. So I personally use levels to tune the blacks, highlights and middle tones with this style. The sample photos are straight with the in-baked contrast, though.
The link to the style is here:
Nature - Velvia 50
Couple of photos with this style:
Nature - Velvia 50 IMG_5894 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Nature - Velvia 50 VMF62469 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
Nature - Velvia 50 VMF75596 1 by Veijo, on Flickr
