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Fashion is a circle, and so is photography. Every time, there are retro elements that come back to life.

Film cameras and film-style photos have also returned to people's eyes in recent years, especially by many young people.

Film photos are classic, but the process of developing photos and buying film is really troublesome, and many people give up the film machine as a result.

In fact, we can use ordinary cameras and mobile phones to simulate a similar film style, and can also make a variety of styles. Today, let's briefly analyze how to imitate film style photos in the later stage.

1. Characteristics of film photos in order to imitate the style of film photos, first of all, we need to understand the characteristics of film photos:

(1) in terms of light and shadow, we said by the way in the previous tone content that the film style is relatively close to the "middle tone", that is, the tone of the photo is concentrated in the middle tone or the span is moderate; there are also some film style photos tend to be "low-key", with more emphasis on light and shadow contrast.

What they have in common is that there is almost no dead black or bright white, and the Samalive photo has a bit of this effect:

(2) in terms of color, many film photos have rich oily colors and high saturation, especially in red, orange, green and blue.

At the same time, photos usually have a color bias, that is, there is a certain hue bias, such as the overall warm or cold photos, which is also one of the sources of its "retro sense".

(3) in other details, many film photos also have their own unique style in detail, such as a strong sense of "air" and a bit of "gray" feeling as a whole.

Have a sense of granularity, appear to have a sense of age

There are also photos with unique glare and taste.

two。 After we understand the characteristics of film photos above, we can imitate them with pertinence:

(1) Lightroom or Photoshop is recommended for the PC end of the post-tool.

Mobile phones can use Lightroom mobile version or Snapseed, these are very common post-tools.

(2) in the stage of light and shadow adjustment, we can use the histogram of the photo as a reference to make it close to the "middle tone", that is, this:

First of all, we ensure the normal exposure of the photo, and then reduce the contrast and let the shadow focus in the middle.

Reduce the highlight and white level of the picture, increase the shadow and black level, and further concentrate the shadow tone.

After completing the above steps, the adjustment of the light and shadow part is almost done.

(3) Color adjustment in terms of color adjustment, we can observe the characteristic and expressive colors in the photos and enhance the effect by adjusting their saturation and lightness.

If the photos we used above are more expressive in orange and green, we can appropriately increase their saturation and brightness in the HSL tool to make them oily, and the saturation can be a little higher.

Because the red, orange, blue and green of the film photos are more prominent, we can mainly adjust these colors in the later stage.

Then is the imitation color deviation effect, we can use "tone separation" (color grading) to achieve this effect, this step can be adjusted according to personal preference, select a certain color in the highlight and shadow part of the "separate tone", and then increase the saturation. the color deviation effect comes out, and we can also use complementary colors such as orange and blue to enhance the color contrast in the photo.

(4) the detail adjustment film photo has a relatively obvious "air feeling", we can achieve this effect through the "curve tool". The leftmost part of the curve tool controls the dark part of the photo, and we pull the leftmost end point up. Pure black will disappear, close to the gray, so the "air sense" will come out.

Then there is the sense of grain. in this step, we can directly use the "particles" in the "effect", and then adjust the rough sense of the size of the particles. The sense of particles does not have to be particularly obvious, if there is nothing, it will be very good.

We can also add dark corners to the photos to make them feel more ambient.

After you export a photo, you can add a frame to it, and it can also look more ceremonial, more like a printed film photo.

In addition to manual post-adjustment, many analog film App also support this effect. You can also simulate the film effect when shooting, adding characteristic frames, glare and so on. If you are interested, you can try it.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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