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Sam Hurd

Hours after being offered a job from a NASA contractor, Sam dropped everything to go all in as a political news and celebrity portrait photographer in DC. Sam was inevitably drawn to wedding photography as a space to promote more inventive ideas. His focus is on photographic techniques which, though deceptively simple, have potential to transform difficult or uninspiring shooting environments into one of a kind opportunities for every photo created.

Supported Software

• Adobe® Lightroom® Classic 7.3 or later
• Adobe® Camera Raw 10.4 or later


• Lightroom mobile presets included (LR Desktop required for syncing)


No. 01

Signal Flow

Tuned For Impossible Things

WORKSHOP + PRESETS + 3D LUT CREATIVE PROFILES

Workshop - The Signal Flow Workshop comes packed with tutorials + exercise files. Videos include editing across a dynamic collection of lighting environments, workflow optimization for ultrafast Lightroom performance, how to generate your own 3D LUT interchange and more.

Presets - ISO adaptive collection of interpixel editing presets. One click will instantly transform your photos w/ 2 core looks, and a dozen modifiers so you can dial in the perfect edit in seconds.

3D LUT Creative Profiles - Use the presets you already have w/ my bespoke creative profile I call "BitDepth." BitDepth leverages a LUT that re-interprets colors so you can access richer tones without comprimising your established look.

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Signal Flow Bundle

Includes:

• Signal Flow (Sam Hurd)
• Gainstage (Sam Hurd)

Signal Flow

Signal Flow - Canon File
(one click application of included presets)

Includes

  • Signal Flow Preset
  • Signal Flow + Preset
  • Signal Flow Binary Preset
  • Signal Flow Bit Crusher Preset
  • Signal Flow Bit Crusher + Preset
  • Signal Flow Bit Crusher Binary Preset
  • 3D Lut Creative Profile
  • Signal Flow Workshop
  • Signal Flow Exercise Files
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Signal Flow is interpixel editing leveraging the “creative profile” camera calibration to apply a custom 3D LUT for color and tone interpretation outside of the algorithmic limitations of Lightroom.

This enables fundamentally new capabilities and looks never before achievable in Lightroom.



SIGNAL FLOW INCLUDES:

WORKSHOP TUTORIALS + EXERCISE FILES



Editing with Signal Flow
(Exercise Files)


Editing with Signal Flow
(44 Different Examples)


Editing with Lightroom
(Custom Keyboard Shortcuts)


Using the JPEG Finalizer


Making Your Own LUT


Adjusting the Black Point


Installation


Gear Bag
(Weddings)


Gear Bag
(Engagements and Portraits)


Sharpening and Grain

COMING SOON


Lightroom Optimization


Export Settings
(Grain, NR, Sharpening)


SIGNAL FLOW PRESETS

ISO ADAPTIVE INTERPIXEL EDITING PRESETS


Signal Flow

Preset - The core preset that emphasizes perfect skin tones across an entire range of looks. Rich saturated oranges, reds, and greens.


Signal Flow +

Preset - Exaggerated take on the core preset with richer oranges and greens.


Signal Flow Binary

Preset - Black and white configuration with punchy contrast and light shadow fade.


Bit Crusher

Preset - Filmic look with a cooler/bluer emphasis on skin tones, while maintaining deep saturated greens and yellows. More likely to work well in broad/diffused soft light.


Bit Crusher Plus

Preset - Exaggerated take on the filmic look with a more muted blue vibe. Likely to work well in broad/diffused soft light.


Bit Crusher Binary

Preset - Black and white configuration with extremely muted highlights and low contrast.


TOOLS


Decay

Tool - Muted highlights in the tone curve useful for overexposed photos.


Jpeg Finalizer

Tool - Utilizes a separate BitDepth profile anticipating a JPEG file for a “cooked”and final look.

3D LUT CREATIVE PROFILES

COMBINE WITH PRESETS YOU ALREADY USE

  • BitDepth X Profile : Custom 3d LUT based profile blended w/ DVLOP X
  • BitDepth BW Profile : Custom black and white 3D LUT based profile blended w/ DVLOP X
  • Custom 3D LUT base profile for use w/ JPEG sources
  • BitDepth Standard : Custom 3D LUT based profile blended w/ Adobe Color for non-DVLOP supported cameras


Flat 3D LUT with nothing applied


Final Bit Depth 3D LUT


Creative Profile I call “BitDepth” containing my custom 3D LUT lookup table blended with the DVLOP X platform


CIE Chromaticity lut analysis of Bit Depth

SIGNAL FLOW

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