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VSCO X and Kodak Porta 160: Before and After #11

By Josh Haroldson

Today was definitely one of those days where:

  • The office needs cleaning
  • The kitchen is just a little messy
  • The bed didn’t get made

Why? It was too dang nice out! This was the kind of day you had to get outside an explore. So I got in the car, stopped for a grande Americano (w/ room lest the coffee spill EVERYWHERE), and all of those bullet points got ignored.

Today was a good day.

And since I got a ton of great photos I wanted to share how I edited one of them.

How I edited this week’s photo for February 19, 2017

Before and After using VSCO X and Kodak Porta 160

  • Software Used: VSCO
  • Kodak Porta 160 +7.7 (X series filter…E6 or F2 are close alternatives)
  • Character +1.8 (similar to Lux +20 inside of Instagram)
  • Exposure +0.4
  • Shadow Save +0.1
  • Clarity +0.8

That’s it! Not much need to be done to a picture when you have such great light. However, in this case I wanted to soften the “punchiness” to give this a more filmic quality that fit the feeling of looking at that big gold and blue horizon.

However, if you check out my Instagram post you can see I ended up adding back just a bit more contrast before I posted it (using the lux tool, a little contrast and then bumping up the shadows a bit just to get the look exactly where I wanted it).

If you want to see the whole process from start to finish just watch this:

Best,
– Josh, @joshharoldson

p.s. Did you get any good pictures this weekend? Send me one! I’d love to see it.

-Josh
@joshharoldson

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