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Not justfor
hipster wankers.
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
With a bit of gentle tweaking and some covert theft from yours or your significant others intimates drawer,
the analogue revolution can be accessible to everyone with gear that you already have!
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
How to make your photoslook like film.
Also file under:
How to turnyour $6000 camera
into a $6 one.When everyone’s using the same gear, that means stories are being told in the same way, and probably look the same. This
means a diminishing amout of surprise we can give to the people we make work for.
There’s a reason cinematographers agonise over lens choices, and when camera manufacturers are making everything sharper and cleaner (its hard to put “make it fuzzy!” in a
technology roadmap), here’s a few ways to dial it all back.
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Dehaze! Dehaze!
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
1.
Dehaze sliders in Lightroom
Dehaze sliders remove haze one way, and add it the other (who knew!). The next best thing to ruining
your lens with that sweet 80’s glamour vaseline.
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BokehPanorama
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
2.
Bokeh Panorama
More than just a great way of filling your hard-drives, these multi-shot portraits emulate how century old
cameras render space. See slide #58 for how to do it.
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Bait andSwitch
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
3.
Shutter priority mode
Set shutter priority (TV mode) to about 1/15 second. In this way you’ve always got that romantic
filmic ambiguity on speed dial.
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Lord ofthe Dodgers
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
4.
Selective shadow dodging
Selectively mask in a lightened--shadow layer in Photoshop. This emulates the natural, imperfect
wear of a print over the years.
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Freelensing
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
5.
Freelensing
Take your lens off. Turn it sideways, upside down, back to front. This emulates the movements of
century old cameras. See slide #29 for how to do it.
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StockingStuffers Inc
Wedding Photographer Melbourne @briarsatlas @olisansom
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Insta-Story workshop by Briars Atlas
6.
Put a stocking over it, m8
This old trick still delivers. Just stuff a damn stocking over your lens. I use black
ones. Experiment with stretch and layering.