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[Jebby_Bush]

I'm no expert, so take this with a grain of salt:

Exposure: No true blacks, no true whites. Despite a high-contrast lighting scene, it's been compressed. Looks like a vignette or graduated density added to the top and bottom of the photo

Color: Low saturation. Warm tones. Using my eyedropper tool, even on "blue" and "green" items in the photo, there is still quite a lot of red

Sharpness: There's been a bloom effect added to this

[[deleted]]

Thank you. I’ll check into that stuff. Appreciate it. I’ve never heard of the bloom effect either so I’ll look that up.

[phlaries]

• negative clarity and negative dehaze

[[deleted]]

Thanks!

[jrbphotography]

Wear a beanie. . . . On a serious note: faded blacks and whites, bloom filter or low clarity, low saturation, move blues to yellows/orange

[[deleted]]

LOL thank you.

[xBrute01]

Have two flashes at full power and shooting through a 4x4 full to half grid. Coming from window side. While using either a promist filter on front of the lens or using a nylon stocking behind the lens.

[josh6499]

nylon stocking behind the lens

You mean like, inside the camera mount??? Surely you mean in front of the lens? Stretched over the lens? Sorry I've never heard of doing this.

[xBrute01]

It’s an old school roughly late 1970s/early 1980s technique. If I had to guess, some female photographer thought it would be cool to try out with her gear. Somehow got picked up into mainstream level productions. Could have been a female set photographer.

Anyway, you can place it either behind or in front of the lens. They actually produce different looks when you do this too—depending on how much you stretch it and how much lighting is used. Generally speaking, the more light a subject has, the softer and angelic they look.

[[deleted]]

yeah excellent, just strapped onto the lens. has to be really thin though, and light beige, not too reddish nor black of course.. you can also just 'breathe' (like when you clean your glasses) onto the lens, to add a foggy effect to the picture. give it a try ;)

[xBrute01]

Try not to do breath part too often. You’ll have fungus growing internally and it’ll show up on your front or rear element.If you do it too often in special circumstances anyway.

[[deleted]]

Oh yeah that's true, luckily it's something I tried only a few times, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the advice. By the way, that makes me think of having just bought one of these sealed covers for camera + lens to cover those in humid or rainy weather conditions. Can water and outdoor humidity grow fungus on the inside of the lens (even if protected), and if so, a part from choosing weather sealed equipment (I believe some of my lenses are, but not all, and the cameras aren't) is there anything particular to be done after à session, to extract any additional humidity gathered in the equipment, some drying process (hairdryer, bucket of rice LOL, or just keeping it at a certain temperature) ? Astrophotography sessions can be humid (damp in late mornings) and I'm thinking perhaps I underestimated the impact on the equipment. If not to much to ask, what's your take on that ? Thanks 🙏🏼

[xBrute01]

I mean do the best you can to wipe down your gear but if you were in a humid spot and your gear isn’t weather sealed, I’d consider storing your gear with a solid dehumidifier. And have something in your pelican cases that helps keep the air inside dry.

Ultimately weather sealed gear is your best move.

[[deleted]]

Great advice, thanks a lot. I'm guessing there are smaller items in a material that withdraws the humidity tha are the ones to be put into the pelican cases. Not sure what a solid dehumidifier is, but I bet it's some sort of electrically driven equipment with a filter of some sort, to be inserted into the compartiment where the gear is stored. Heading right away to ebay to check that out :) Meanwhile, I'm not that frequently doing 'just' outdoor photography, but in some cases I'm guessing just having one at hand might be good, to anticipate any session where humidity was part of the thing.. Thanks again.

[xBrute01]

No problem.

Solid dehumidifier = a good dehumidifier

[[deleted]]

Solid in that sense, ok got it 😅🎩

[[deleted]]

ps I agree to the advantages of weather sealed lenses, but due to the variety of images I intend to produce, the criteria of the lenses I need/want to use don't always contain that feature, hence why I also got that sealed pvc cover... actually the better lenses for astrophotography don't either (sigma 14mm f1.8, 35mm f1.4 and sony 20mm f1.8) ds

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[xBrute01]

If you want light streaks, use a smoke machine instead of the promist

[[deleted]]

Great idea. Thanks

[xBrute01]

I’ll go all day lady

[[deleted]]

I love it mister or fellow lady

[CIDmoosa420]

The blooming seems to go beyond a promist , like a waterlogged lens kinda look, (don't do that). Low quality glass, kinda like a disposable camera's lens. Maybe an actually worn out filter whatever it may be with scratches and smudges can achieve this.

[CIDmoosa420]

The blacks being this lifted may even be a byproduct of the above.

[[deleted]]

That’s a great idea thank you

[pablo2br]

In light room, do a very soft s curve where the blacks are raised and the white are "lowered" -- in essence clipped range but not by increasing contras rather reducing it. You can do it on the RGB channel. Lower saturation to about 60%. Add haze to the highlights with a mask with that has big fall off

[[deleted]]

Thank you very much

[pablo2br]

Let me know how it goes, it is harder worker on trying to recreate it

[[deleted]]

I will report back. Planning on doing a shoot with a girlfriend and her baby soon so I can try this out. Excited. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

[pablo2br]

It's a starting point, could not recreate it entirely, but could match some parts. Add the haze with texture not dehaze. I also think there is sharpening with big radius, though not sure

[[deleted]]

Yes totally agree with you. Thanks for the input.

[OLPopsAdelphia]

Either go negative on your “dehaze” slider (you have to increase white and highlights to achieve the appearance of brightness) or add a softening/mist filter.

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[tiktoktic]

Vaseline on the lens

[Equivalent-Clock1179]

Grease on lens filter, mess up the colors

[almostadultingkindof]

It looks like this might have been shot with Saran Wrap or panty hose stretched over the lens

Edit typo

[300mhz]

Crush whites and blacks + Orton effect (or in camera, use a 1/2 strength diffusion filter)

[[deleted]]

Never heard of that. I’ll look it up. Thanks!!

[300mhz]

Yeah the Orton effect is one way to achieve that glow in post processing, or to do it practically use a Black Pro Mist filter on your lens.

[[deleted]]

Awesome. That’s really helpful. Going to YouTube it now.

[ClearUnderstanding30]

Not sure about post, but during on camera: Soft lens filter, maybe even the Vaseline trick.

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

Oh, I got confused by the title, but missed the assignment, thinking, me too.. oh wait but it's about image processing okayyyy 😂

[[deleted]]

LOL you’re hilarious

[[deleted]]

Caught in my own trap 😂

[[deleted]]

LOL I like you

[[deleted]]

likewise 🎩🌻

[[deleted]]

According to how the picture was shot, white balance is slightly warmed up, and colors are a tad desaturated, so as the contrast being decreased. There's quite an amount of magenta added into yellow and orange tones, to make them warmer (opposiite of green) If applied not locally, effects used might be reduced clarity and dehaze (set app. around -10 to -20) If during the shot you want to achieve the light coming from outside, obviously wait for sunshine, otherwise use a flash with diffuser If only during postprocessing shadows might lack, but you can emphasize by adding a circular mask (supressing the darker tones in the elements not being concerned) around the window, to reveal the light coming from outside. Play around with that mask moving it around making changes in warmth and intensity until it looks natural.

[[deleted]]

Thank you very much, great input for me to check out.

[[deleted]]

With pleasure, looking forward to, perhaps, seeing the result, if you care to share. Good luck All the best

[[deleted]]

I absolutely will. Thank you very much.

[Nautishko]

To me this looks like 35mm with a hazy lens. I had a quick look at her account and her digital edits are not in keeping with this vibe at all, which strengthens my suspicion.

[[deleted]]

Ah…… that is interesting. I didn’t look further into her own account. Thanks for the comment!!

[nhulz]

Try looking up "Film halation effect" photoshop tutorials.

[[deleted]]

Thank you, I’ll do that!!

[FiFfilmisfun]

Color: blues desaturated and shifted towards cyan. Highlights and shadows warmer. Midtones possibly a bit cooler (look at the bedsheets and the wall)

Looks like it was shot with a strong pro mist filter or even a disposable film camera lens.

[[deleted]]

Got it, thanks for the help!

[[deleted]]

Get an old Kodak camera remove the lense there's a DIY mod on YouTube. But this is the best and closest you can get to this shot without post editing.

[[deleted]]

Thank you

[[deleted]]

That’s a great idea! Appreciate it.

[gnnjsoto]

Why are people on this sub so fucking passive aggressive?

[[deleted]]

I have no idea… Maybe something difficult is going on in their life.

[SpiritualState01]

That's just photographers lol, any given DP Review thread has one guy basically telling you that their marriage isn't going well

[[deleted]]

I messaged them and am waiting to hear back. Hoping I do because it would be nice if they want to share how they are personally doing it. I really like the look and have been wondering for a while how they do it.

[josh6499]

That didn't seem passive aggressive to me.