Best VSCO Film Packs for weddings

Hello All,

I am wondering which film packs people find the best for weddings. I currently have just the film pack 01 and it works great but I am looking to possible buy another one or two but don't want to waste my money on a film pack that may be best suited for a different type of photography.

Let me know your thoughts!

I only infrequently use VSCO, but I have just bought their latest 07 film pack and a couple of the presets in this set, particularly the ektachrome 64 and kodak elite 50 II suit my style i.e. the colours are much more natural looking while providing for some deeper colours and nice contrasts. I am still irritated by the inclusion of grain, however much true to form it is. It's easy enough to add in grain, but it's often difficult to remove as its removal decreases detail. I like a clean, colourful and reasonably natural style so some of the presets in this pack are quite useful for me.

shadowdancer wrote in post #17590890
I only infrequently use VSCO, but I have just bought their latest 07 film pack and a couple of the presets in this set, particularly the ektachrome 64 and kodak elite 50 II suit my style i.e. the colours are much more natural looking while providing for some deeper colours and nice contrasts. I am still irritated by the inclusion of grain, however much true to form it is. It's easy enough to add in grain, but it's often difficult to remove as its removal decreases detail. I like a clean, colourful and reasonably natural style so some of the presets in this pack are quite useful for me.

Thanks for the feedback! Would you mind posting some samples using the presets you mentioned?

Why can't you make your own. It takes a day of learning how to operate sliders. This way you will learn to use Lightroom and save money on useless presets. I am amazed people pay for it.

because VSCO is a shortcut to success, especially when bridal blogs and magazines feature the crap out of it

you don't need as much lighting or photography knowledge anymore these days

dmitrim wrote in post #17591052
Why can't you make your own. It takes a day of learning how to operate sliders. This way you will learn to use Lightroom and save money on useless presets. I am amazed people pay for it.

Not everyone uses LR and not everyone has time to spend messing around with 'sliders'.

There are no shortcuts to success...

For a good range of examples using a variety of the VSCO packs in weddings and other portrait scenes, there are a number of VSCO film and film discussion groups on FB (just search on VSCO in FB).You could also have a look at the work of Jonas Peterson (international wedding photographer). He was an early ambassador for VSCO.

dmitrim wrote in post #17591052
Why can't you make your own. It takes a day of learning how to operate sliders. This way you will learn to use Lightroom and save money on useless presets. I am amazed people pay for it.

Because paying someone a few hundred dollars to save a day of time is a very easy choice for me. I use them as a guide when editing sets of photos, I browse them until I find a good "stating point" for the look and feel for that particular shoot then customize it from there but it makes the creative process happen way faster for me.

dmitrim wrote in post #17591052
Why can't you make your own. It takes a day of learning how to operate sliders. This way you will learn to use Lightroom and save money on useless presets. I am amazed people pay for it.

Me too... That and using the same preset / actions as everyone else is the easiest way to make your work look unremarkable and undistinguishable from the masses.

elrey2375 wrote in post #17593960
There are no shortcuts to success...

some ways are shorter than others

to a lot of people the VSCO 'look' adds more points than say better lighting and compositional techniques

elrey2375 wrote in post #17593959
Not everyone uses LR and not everyone has time to spend messing around with 'sliders'.

Really?? That's your excuse?
You are in the business and if you can't spend a day perfecting your craft instead of copying others and using plugins instead of learning about colors then perhaps you should not be a photographer. There are plenty of jobs that don't require any knowledge... Oh wait..THERE AREN'T ANY!!!

Dorian7 wrote in post #17596907
Because paying someone a few hundred dollars to save a day of time is a very easy choice for me. I use them as a guide when editing sets of photos, I browse them until I find a good "stating point" for the look and feel for that particular shoot then customize it from there but it makes the creative process happen way faster for me.

If you want to call yourself a professional photographer, then it would make sense that you spend 1 day of your life( JUST 1 day) to learn about colors and how to operate the program you are using.
Not only it will make you better, you will also stop copying and start producing more original results.

Will Chao wrote in post #17597302
some ways are shorter than others

to a lot of people the VSCO 'look' adds more points than say better lighting and compositional techniques

Everyone wants to be a photographer,but nobody want to actually dedicate time to learn the craft any more. It is very sad.

They are also failing to realize that these plugins and look is just a short trend that will go away in maybe a year or two. We had many-many similar trends before that are gone now and everyone is laughing at those photos. And by shooting and editing with this style, they are ultimately shutting themselves down and also creating photographs that are not timeless. I can bet money that in 5 years, all of these photographers will regret it.

dmitrim wrote in post #17600700
If you want to call yourself a professional photographer, then it would make sense that you spend 1 day of your life( JUST 1 day) to learn about colors and how to operate the program you are using.
Not only it will make you better, you will also stop copying and start producing more original results.

Again, I am saying that a lot of people (myself included) use them for a great place to START. Not necessarily just throw on a filter and be done. I have a fulltime job as a product developer so my paid work is on weekends, nights or perhaps a day or two that I take off. If I was a full time professional photographer then yes, spending more time custom refining the process would make sense I suppose.