ChatGPT does Presets

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I asked ChatGPT to create film emulations for use in Lightroom, for Agfa CT-18 and Agfa CT-21 (my beloved slide films from yesteryear). I was presented with comprehensive recipes, which work (at least, to my eyes). Here is CT-18. BASIC PANEL Exposure: 0.00 (adjust per image) Contrast: -10 Highlights: -20 Shadows: +10 Whites: +5 Blacks: -5 PRESENCE Texture: 0 Clarity: …

What is Street Photography?

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I have an ongoing project to digitise my film archives, which has been a bit interrupted by the MA. So a 2019 resolution is to make more progress on the task. On New Year’s Day, I posted the image in the header, ‘Drivers‘. It was taken in October, 1972, at Warkworth, Northumberland, using a Praktica Nova 1B (the first real …