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 p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Why are so many people now using the faded / film PP look? | |
agelessphotog wrote:
I think it looks good. But it just seems like for some reason ALOT of people are starting to use this. Is it because it just looks good and saves so much time to use a VSCO preset?
My thoughts are that it's very simply because lots of people like how it looks, so lots of people are doing it.
Chris Fawkes wrote:
Where I think it can be bad is when photographers deliver clients an album with every image processed that way. By the time they realise it was a passing fad there is nothing they can do.
I liken it to selective color. 20 years ago it was all the rage. Now it's just painful. Imagine if someone had an entire album done that way.
Hey Chris, I kind of have mixed feelings on this point that I see brought up often. I think when looking back years later, it's kind of part of the fun seeing the style the pictures were taken in and gives you something to laugh about, just like clothing styles from the era. I think back to looking at my 80's pictures and we laugh at the styles, or even the methods the photographers used that were the fad of the time (you know, laser backgrounds, double exposure with the serious profile, etc), and that's part of the fun - at least for me.
Chris Fawkes wrote:
I will point out that the completely black areas on a film print don't have grain.
That's interesting, I didn't actually know that. I'm wondering if that's only for negative film, that it's kinda burned all white? I wonder if in slide film there still grain in the blacks? I don't know much about film, I think I've only shot about 5 or 6 rolls since I really started getting into photography. The funny thing, is I shot my 1st roll of Portra to get the film look - and it still doesn't look like Zalmy's stuff!
--David
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