The best part for me and my workflow is that it will open 16 bit RAW files straight from Lightroom. Essentially, the custom camera is like an endless set of Instagram filters, with far more control than Instagram. These custom cameras can be saved as presets so you won’t lose a favorite look. There are some preset cameras, but you can edit any of those to build your own camera and add or remove bokeh, dust and scratches, frames, simulate blurs, double exposure and vignetting.
While Analog Efex Pro 2 is more of a pro offering, it features easy ways to mangle your pristine digital images by editing simple modules.
Those control points are more refined and offer a higher degree of control than the simplified ones that were in Snapseed for the Mac or the current ones in the Android and iOS versions of Snapseed.
Except that the former is more robust, faster and has the professional version of Nik Software’s control point technology found in other Nik Software plugins like Color Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Pro, etc. This image shows more heavily applied filters than the image above.Īnalog Efex Pro 2 replaces the short-lived, dedicated Snapseed app for Mac. It’s like having a tricked out, supercharged version of Instagram on your Mac (or PC). More Seattle fun with Toy Camera #2.I’m really loving working with Analog Efex Pro 2 as an external editor to Lightroom. I took a photo of my Kodak Instamatic with my Kodak Instamatic. Smoothdude let me borrow his Hasselblad to make this photo on our Route 66 trip last year. A couple million in stock options and this too can be yours. Love the authentic real life colors from Classic Camera #2 on this San Francisco victorian in the Mission District. Oopsie, a little light leak thing happened in my Holga again.ĭoing wet plate photography in Holbrook, Arizona. So can you too, because I licensed it Creative Commons non-commercial. I think this painting from the Met in New York City looks better this way, don’t you? I could totally print this up and hang this in my house. It’s just like Star Wars only better because it’s got Jeremiah in it.Ĭolorcast #2 makes butterflies look so pretty.Ĭolorcast #2 makes models look so pretty too, but this one was already pretty to begin with. One of my neon signs that I took back in 1972 while on a photography junket across America with Stephen Shore. I’m not being sarcastic there, I’m being serious. I cannot say enough positive things about all my Canon glass. Hey tilt shift and I didn’t even have to buy the $2,500 Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lens! Which is a totally awesome lens by the way that I actually will buy someday. Chvrches rock!Ĭlassic Camera #7 has such a nice warm film feel, doesn’t it? Wet plate photography, without all the sticky wet plates.Įvery respectable concert photographer brings their Toy Camera #2 to the photo pit these days. Hey It’s Amanda Morgan shot with my cool Toy Camera #9. How did I ever get a double exposure of this classic neon sign? I’ll never tell. It’s like owning a lensbaby without having to actually use one of those horrible awkward things. ?Īnyways, check out 20 different looks you can create with Analog Efex Pro 2. Now it’s like I really am shooting a Holga, just with my Canon 5D Mark III. I used to joke around with anyone who asked me what camera I shot and tell them a Holga. While there is an absolute undeniable romance with rolling your own film, hanging out in a darkroom with your college girlfriend, and licking the fixer off your own prints you made yourself, it’s not something I think I’ll ever go back to - unless and maybe when my hipster buddy Daniel Krieger finally convinces me to buy a film Hasselblad. I shot film exclusively for about 15 years before switching to digital in the early 2000s. The purist film photographers out there are probably going to hate this new software, but for you digital photographers who dig an analog look and feel, you are going to love this. I’ve been playing around with Nik Software’s new Analog Efex Pro 2 photo processing software (brought to you by the good folks at Google) all weekend long and I’m super impressed.