No introduction needed. Here’s the 4th Street Presets edition: Street Presets — Streetshooter Vagrant for Lightroom. Created by street photographers Don Springer of Streetshooter and Olivier Duong of The F/8 Blog, these carefully developed presets give you the ultimate “street look” — and for the first time with color presets!
These carefully crafted presets may even change your photography altogether. No more hours wasted in front of the screen to get that gritty look you’re after. Results remind me of shooting grainy black-and-white Ilford pushed a few stops. Hearty vignetting, deep oily blacks, crisp contrast, you got it. Street Presets are the closest thing to the old darkroom.
As said before, the presets are nothing for you if you’re after squeaky-clean, completely noise-free images. They are right down your alley, however, if you’re after this documentary look that for some reason makes photographs more authentic, more real.
Tons of presets are available for free on the Net. But not all are made equal. Most simply alter the look of an image, not the soul of an image. “We are after breathing life into photographs with our presets,” says Don. “The presets are not mechanical knobs to us, but they are a labor of love for we are not engineers or developers, but passionate photographers. We understand what street photographers want.”
Don and Olivier “feel the street,” giving your photographs this organic, gritty, documentary “street look” that is hard to reproduce. Their presets were created to handle many kinds of situation including under- and overexposure. You’ll be amazed what Lightroom can do.
These presets are a proven labor of love. It took these two fine photographers a lot of time to carefully fine-tune the settings after countless experiments on their on street images.
This latest, bigger Streetshooter Vagrant pack for Lightroom 4 has 19 presets including black-and-white versions, toners and color presets for PC and Mac.
Included are five sharpening presets to alter the level of sharpening. It contains softer presets for a clean street look, up to the really gritty look. The five color presets included will add variety to your processing.
These presets are a proven labor of love. It took these two fine photographers a lot of time to carefully fine-tune the settings after countless experiments on their on street images.
For order and download click Streetshooter Vagrant and head to Presets.