Pen F at a Civil War Re-enactment

Steven Wandy wrote:

Wonderful set of portraits - and great use of the sepia tone to make the photos look more "aged".

One question about the Mono Profile - did you reset it in-camera to provide the Sepia look or did you do that (and the vignetting in some of the shots) afterwords? I ask because the original Mono 2 was much grainier (or using the newer term "noisier") to simulate a Kodak Tri-X film - or at least that is what it looked like from my memory banks.

Many thanks for the kind comment. I basically did it all in camera. Only thing I did in Snapseed was to slightly change the brightness. This was because I hadn't figured out how to change the mid-tone in camera yet. I got this figured out now. When in the tone curve the information button changes from shadow/highlight to mid-tone.

There are two places to go to to change the profiles. The level below the mode dial will change the color filter, the tone curve and the vignetting. The SCP will change the grain and tint.

I believe the defaults for Mono 2 are the following:
1. No color filter.
2. Tone curve at highlight +6, shadow -6, mid-tone at 0.
3. Vignetting at 0
4. Grain at High
5. Tint at Neutral.

Anyhow change to you liking. I thought the default grain was too much and I chanel it to Low. I changed Vignetting to -1.

It is really fun playing with this stuff to get the look you want in camera at the time the shot was taken

Dave
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