K-Tone Picture Profiles

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I always liked the tonality of Kodachrome film of the 30s and 40s. It had a great color palette. Kodachrome had more poetry in it than other film stock, a softness, an elegance.

I know that it is not entirely possible to emulate the characteristics of Kodachrome in the FS100, but I tried to come as close as possible.

K-Tone Picture Profiles are the first “out of the box” profiles I made. That means, it does not require color grading (of course you can grade it though if you want).
I look at it, as I look at specialty lenses. Some odd vintage glass, that I may find on a flea market for a few bucks and adapt it on the camera for some special looks and shots.
What I want to say is, this is not an everyday production profile. It´s more experimental, vintage, sweet-home-Alabama looking.

I´m not exactly there yet - still needs some work - here is an prototype example:

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And here the link to my article.

http://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/sony-fs100-k-tone-picture-profiles-preview/
 
That is VERY interesting.....I noticed you didn't have a headshot in your examples. How would those look?
Gorgeous look though.
 
Yeah, skintoneas are hard to nail, especially on the FS100. That´s why I need an other week or two.

Frank
 
Don't have a FS100 but the stuff you are doing for the FS100 community is great. Keep up the great work.
 
Gimme gimme gimme, beautiful its like what programs like looks and other try to emulate with their film looks...can I have it now ha
Thanks as always Frank
 
Oh Frank, have I told you lately that I love you?!!!! This is great. I absolutely love Kodachrome. I cut my teeth shooting on Kodachrome 40 Super 8 when I first started and really still mourn that it has gone away. I would love to have a K-Tone profile on the FS100. The last that I heard of anyone doing something like this was quite a few years back when a local rental house was developing Kodachrome profiles for a Varicam. I saw some of the tests but it really was not quit there. I am so looking forward to what you come up with. I love your choices of photos on your blog, I am a huge fan of the FSA photographers and spend many hours on the LOC website looking at those photos. I recommend anyone interested in visual images to at least check it out.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

Here is one of my favorite Kodachrome photos:

London_,_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield_edit.jpg
 
Oh Frank, have I told you lately that I love you?!!!! This is great. I absolutely love Kodachrome. I cut my teeth shooting on Kodachrome 40 Super 8 when I first started and really still mourn that it has gone away. I would love to have a K-Tone profile on the FS100. The last that I heard of anyone doing something like this was quite a few years back when a local rental house was developing Kodachrome profiles for a Varicam. I saw some of the tests but it really was not quit there. I am so looking forward to what you come up with. I love your choices of photos on your blog, I am a huge fan of the FSA photographers and spend many hours on the LOC website looking at those photos. I recommend anyone interested in visual images to at least check it out.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

Here is one of my favorite Kodachrome photos:

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While we're giving each other "eye-gasms" with Kodachrome profiles, here's a site that has become an absolute time hole for me. I've never seen so many 4x5 inch large-format transparencies in my life.....and in high-res scans.....gorgeous stuff.
http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/179
 
Wow!
I would not have expected such a response. Looks like I pulled some strings.

Glad you guys like the idea.

And yeah, the LOC website and Shorpy, are a never ending source of inspiration for me, since quite a while.
If you look at some of my films, I guess it´s quite obvious how this influenced me.
I also have tons of LIFE magazines of the 30s and 40s - the photography there is outstanding.
One can really learn thing or two from those old hands.

best, Frank
 
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Everyone's going to start making films set in the fifties. Nice work Frank.
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One can only hope!

What is VERY cool lately is that there is definitely an interest in retro aesthetics. A good deal of the credit for that, IMHO, goes to the success of "Mad Men". If you live in a town of any size, you will probably see that there is quite a bit of trendy retro aesthetic scenes that are active. Underground lounge culture has exploded. What really excites me about developing a K-Tone picture profile for the FS100, is being able to tap into that market, with a very cool look. I have been doing some retro looks, on stills, but I want to really want to expand that. As a tip to my fellow filmmakers, you know, just as a suggestion, one part of the expanded lounge culture that is really, really big is the neo-burlesque and Pin Up scene. Anyone looking for some new avenues for their filmmaking business may want to see if there are some neo-burlesque or Pin Up artists in their area that need video work. A K-Tone type PP would be great for that. And, don't that sound like a lot of fun?

Thanks again Frank!

EDIT: Some links.

http://www.bachelorpadmagazineonline.com/

http://www.modernpin-up.net/

http://web.me.com/ingakaboom/tucsonburlesque.com/Home.html

http://www.thepinupangels.com/pinupangelshome.html


And so on and so forth!
 
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David G. Smith said:
... If you live in a town of any size, you will probably see that there is quite a bit of trendy retro aesthetic scenes that are active. Underground lounge culture has exploded.
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That´s not really a new thing.

I`m a pretty active part of that 30s-40s-50s subculture since when I was 16 years old.
I´m now 45 and still loving and living it. Me and my friends slowly getting the old farts of that scene :cheesy:

Sometimes I have a chance to do some work that has this look.
A few weeks ago I shot a calender for a friends hotrod speed shop.

Poster-Kalender.jpg Speedshop.jpg

http://www.widegrensspeedshop.de/index.html

A friend of mine, Gordon Ayres is THE photographer in this scene since it all started over 20 years ago.
On his website you can see pretty much the last 20 years of the "hard core" folks of this culture.

ib_p014_1_8.jpg
For example, this photo was shot during a dance event in the late 90s, not 1943 ;-)

http://gordonayresphotographer.com/



Frank
 
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Postmaster said:
That´s not really a new thing.

I`m a pretty active part of that 30s-40s-50s subculture since when I was 16 years old.
I´m now 45 and still loving and living it. Me and my friends slowly getting the old farts of that scene :cheesy:

Sometimes I have a chance to do some work that has this look.
A few weeks ago I shot a calender for a friends hotrod speed shop.

View attachment 45722 View attachment 45721

http://www.widegrensspeedshop.de/index.html

A friend of mine, Gordon Ayres is a photographer in this scene since it all started over 20 years ago.
On his website you can see pretty much the last 20 years of the "hard core" folks of this culture.

View attachment 45723
For example, this photo was shot during a dance event in the late 90s, not 1943 ;-)

http://gordonayresphotographer.com/



Frank
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WOW, very cool. It is just starting to hit critical mass here. Good to see that you are "Old School" on that.
 
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