Some time last year I invested in some presets as I often noticed that my images were toned slightly more towards the warmer side. For my taste it didn’t suit the image in many cases. The presets I downloaded featured some well known film stocks of yesteryear. I’m not dissatisfied with those but I’ve developed an interest in adjusting colours to suit my own vision. As with many edits in photography, it’s advisable to allow your adjustments to ‘stew’ for a while. Meaning leave them and come back after hours or days and review your work. In this instance I haven’t taken my own advice, at least not with this image. I will review it though down the track. For the moment, the colour grading is to my liking.

Another factor not mentioned yet but which I’ll talk about in a subsequent post is ‘second base ISO’. You can do a search on that to see how it might benefit your own work. Back to this edit for a moment - I do see an opening of the shadows compared to the original Raw conversion. The extra detail is a plus.