Anyone else love the "Direct positive" in lightroom?C & C (kinda)

Ricky91t

I recently decided to use lightroom and was messing around with a few shot..Clicked the direct positive and i was amazed!:D
Anyone else you use it and love it?

Fenster

You confuse and frighten me sir. If we are to swap Lightroom tips, go into it's curves tool on a daytime scene and drop the "Dark" and "Shadows" sliders all the way:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/408251391_864c427265_b.jpg

Ricky91t

Fenster wrote: »

You confuse and frighten me sir. If we are to swap Lightroom tips, go into it's curves tool on a daytime scene and drop the "Dark" and "Shadows" sliders all the way:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/408251391_864c427265_b.jpg

you're one of many iv confused and frightened on the web
that looks cool
i must try it

MartMax

Yeah, I've used the "Direct positive" preset on few pics of mine. Here is one (pimping )



although i think the sea is a bit too darkish.

PopeBuckfastXVI

any chance of seeing the pic before that's applied?

DadaKopf

What's direct positive? I don't have lightroom.

Roen

It's a traditional film technique, but can be done a few different ways. One was to expose paper and then then treat it with a chemical (I can't remember which) and then expose the paper as though you would a negative, therefore getting a 'direct positive' print without the use of a negative.
Another would be to print onto paper from a slide, again avoiding the use of a negative.

It typically resulted in fairly punchy, saturated and high contrast images.
I think the preset on LR just mimics that punch, contrast and saturation.

nilhg

DadaKopf wrote: »

What's direct positive? I don't have lightroom.

Its a preset in Lightroom, if you have PSCS3 or Elements you can input the same settings in ACR, I've attached a text file with all the settings.

DadaKopf

Hey, ricky, nice photos, by the way.