Seeing how the times change and life never seems to slow down, nor does the style of our images. Its said that history will often times repeat itself within every aspect of our own lives. Repeating within everything from our clothes to how we take photographs. With the wonders of digital photography it is now that much easier to recreate the things we loved so much from our vintage world.
Just recently, I took that new found love of the ever popular vintage film style and reworked it for Filmateria Digital. It all started as a simple portrait thought up by Mark Contratto, Photography Director: Filmateria. I worked on set for this photo session of portraits as their Digital Tech. As I watched the images come up on the monitor, one by one I thought to myself what else could it be?
Walla! A fun retro style was born. After consulting with Mark over the new idea I had for the post production of the image, I went full speed ahead. I brought the original image into Photoshop and quickly duplicated the file just to be safe. Next, I adjusted the red and blue channels on the curves layer in order to give a washed out feel. Then I also made adjustments in the hue/ saturation, the levels and used quite a few blur filters to give it that special something. I then used several different layers to create the sun/light leak look by using the brush tool and motion blur.
Once the image was finished, everyone was in love! I went on to create two other looks for Mark and the Filmateria Digital Portfolio.
