Right to the leafy edge at Boston’s botanical gardens.
VSCO Film 05 – Kodak Ektar 100 Vibrant
VSCO Film 05 Fuji Neopan 400 Contrast+
VSCO Film 05 Kodak Gold 100 Portrait
VSCO Film 05 Kodak Royal Gold 400 Cool
VSCO Film 05 Kodak Gold 200++ Alt
VSCO Film 05 Kodak BW400CN Contrast/Fade+
VSCO Film 05 Kodak UltraMax 400 Warm
VSCO Film 05 Kodak Gold 200 Cool+
VSCO Film 05 Agfa Vista 100 Warm
After the slide film series of VSCO’s Film 04, I wondered, “What’s next? What hasn’t been covered yet?”
And then I bought a roll of Kodak Ektar film, and I realized: here it is. The classic stuff. Gold and Vista and UltraMax. Consumer-grade films.
Here we have VSCO Film 05.
The above examples show what this film is: a lovely addition to the already great line of VSCO film emulations. I use Lightroom, and assign most of my photos these days to one of the film packs. It’s a good starting point, and flexible enough to let my own artistic personality shine through.
Lately I’ve been partial to Film 01, with Film 04 slipping in for landscape shots and when I need a bit of pop to the color and contrast.
This latest pack offers a good middle ground between the first two VSCO offerings and the slide film set. It’s got punch and personality, while not going overboard.
Agfa Vista, especially, seems to have the contrast and color characteristics I like. Bright, just a tad saturated, and good contrast.
Kodak Gold is really the one I’ve been looking forward to playing with, and it doesn’t disappoint. It really has that Kodak Quality™, through and through.
Below that, not much interests me. But it’s worth it just to have a few new profiles to play with. The Agfa Vista, especially, seems like it fits my processing philosophy the most.
