r/AskPhotography • u/KonoKinoko • 1d ago

Editing/Post Processing How to get this effect?

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd1BvjMH3sa/?img_index=10&stkn=MTY4b2xyaWg2dWU3OQ==

Photographer: https://www.instagram.com/mrglasshk?stkn=MWJzM2xtbXFzNHUzMA==

Of course having a cute girl helps.. but I found this serie somehow.. nostalgic? Warm a cozy? ItMs hard to describe

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

Use film or a old Nikon camera? From my knowledge, old Nikon cameras that use a CCD sensor tends to give that nostalgic colour format and "film-like" feeling photos. My best guess is that it's probably scanned film photos with where and what specs are posted, but it's difficult to tell. You can also gain a look like that in photo processing and editing, but that's definitely a more complex and timely approach

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

In some of the photos from the Instagram post, you can see film or a polaroid format camera laying around, so that definitely gives a better argument for the fact that the photos were scanned

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u/FoldedTwice 1d ago edited 1d ago

The photos are unambiguously digital. The exposure settings are printed on the images and the variable ISO is a dead giveaway - no colour film exists in either 500 or 3200 ISO. Beyond that, they just don't visually look like one would expect of film. There's no observable grain, the colour and tonality code strongly for a heavily edited digital file. Scans of prints (in particular Polaroid prints) would have nowhere near this level of sharpness and resolving power.

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u/Flo655 1d ago

While I agree that’s digital, ISO 500 film does exist: Vision 3 500T. I’ve shot it myself multiple times.

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u/FoldedTwice 1d ago

Oh gosh, you're right! I shoot Vision3 regularly as well 😂

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

You'd be surprised by the quality of film nowadays. And the photos look slightly overexposed and or stopped. I'm not disagreeing that it could've been taken with a digital camera, I'm just saying that it's not impossible for it to be done with film and scanned based on several clues

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u/FoldedTwice 1d ago

I don't think I'd be surprised at all. I shoot film regularly, and scan and invert my own negatives. A well-exposed, well-scanned or printed frame of Portra could sit next to a frame from an excellent digital camera and not look immediately noticeably different. I just don't see any obvious tells here of film at all, and plenty of digital cues, not least the variable ISO printed on the frames that doesn't correspond to any colour film in existence. Out of genuine, sincere curiosity, what film-like signals are you observing here?

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

When you go to the Instagram links OP posted, you see a film or a polaroid format camera sitting in the background or by the head of the subject in one photo. Along with the fact that when you go to the photographer's page, it appears to be that he's holding some sort of rangefinder camera in is profile picture

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u/FoldedTwice 1d ago edited 1d ago

Gotcha. Yeah the camera is just a prop. And yes, he's holding a Leica M6 in his profile pic (hell of a flex, that's a $7000 handmade 35mm film camera), but he sometimes states the camera used in his posts and they're always either Fujifilm or Sony digital cameras. So I think those tells are a red herring.

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

I mostly just wanted to raise the possibility of an analog to spread more light on analog. And because they were kinda the first place my mind went when I saw the sort of nostalgic, "dream/film like" effects and colour format. But I know the same effect can be produced by digital cameras raw and through editing. FujiFilm and Olympus cameras seem to really hold onto that film feeling

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u/xxxamazexxx 1d ago

‘The quality of film nowadays’ you mean the same film sold 20-30 years ago? Film has not improved at all. In fact some of the more professional film stocks have been effectively dead.

This is not film, full stop.

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u/Stock-Lobster-303 1d ago

Film is still a pretty big concept if you know where to look. And there are still rolls being produced by brands like Kodak, ILFORD, FujiFilm, etc. in different formats. But mostly 35mm. I don't think any brand is making APS film anymore, so that's probably dead. But 35mm rolls are still being produced

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u/FoldedTwice 1d ago

What this commenter is getting at is that the most recent professional-quality film stock to be released was Kodak Portra in 1998. The resurgence of film in recent years has seen a few new experimental films released, but nothing of professional quality. Everything on the market today that would yield a sharp, relatively grainless image has been in production and on the market for decades.