Thiago Gimenes

Preset 1 - OneDay l Color

This is the one preset to rule then all! After applying it, minor adjusts are needed, mostly some little adjust in white balance (remember to always adjust WB before applying any preset) and crop.

Color: Warm tones overall, neutral greens, slightly orange magentas, blues tending to teal, but a little desaturated. Skin tones are slightly bright (Luminance) and a little tinted to yellow. The reds are a little desaturated for preserving skin tones on situations of over exposure to color lights.

Contrast: Very contrasty, with basic tone adjustments and a slight “S” shaped curve (denser at the bottom)

Textures: Heavy textures, it’s all about identity, it must be showing the person’s features like tattoos, hair style and even body marks, so there’s a lot of high frequency sharpen (Texture adjustment), but none added sharpen on low frequency (Clarity adjustment). There’s also some overcompensation on input sharpness (the one on “Detail” panel), but an adjustment for Luma and Color Noise, to “clean” the image and prepare for the added grain (be careful to adjust the grain when applying in lower or very high resolution files).

When exporting JPEG files, output sharpen is recommended as “Standard” for best results (screen or print).

Preset 2 - OneDay l BW

This is a preset carefully created to match some works done with digital as long as film cameras, when using the iconic Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to ISO 1600 (always a go-to film).

It is a “false” black and white, because Lightroom still “thinks” that it’s a color image, so the WB and the color adjustments still works (but in kind of unpredictable ways, so you’ll have to play with it).

The preset lends it’s heavy contrast and grainy from the film, with basic tone adjustments that increases the contrast without losing detail in the highlights and shadows. A strong “S” shaped tone curve increases even more the contrast, mainly in the darker regions.

Textures: Heavy textures, it’s all about identity, it must be showing the person’s features like tattoos, hair style and even body marks, so there’s a lot of high frequency sharpen (Texture adjustment), but none added sharpen on low frequency (Clarity adjustment). There’s also some overcompensation on input sharpness (the one on “Detail” panel), but an adjustment for Luma and Color Noise, to “clean” the image and prepare for the added grain.

Grain is the “soul” of this preset, it renders another layer of meaning and almost a tactile sense to the photography, like and old photo on paper. (be careful to adjust the grain when applying in lower or very high resolution files).

When exporting JPEG files, output sharpen is recommended as “Standard” for best results (screen or print).