Filmy look on Photoshop or Lightroom

[lindsaylou]

Hey everyone, I'm a beginning photographer and I desperately love the photos that look 'filmy' even though they are shot with a DSLR.
They are always super light & kind of blurry, and there seems to be a light film/opacity over the photo.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DO THIS? PLEASE TEACH ME!!! These are my absolute favorite photos and I would love to learn how to do them. Thank you!!!

 

[minicoop1985]

The easiest answer is shoot film.

 

[Fred Berg]

One way to get photos which have that old-time film look is to get an adaptor for your camera and use old M42 lenses. I think a great deal of the overall feel of film was due to the lenses used at that time.

 

[gsgary]

Next time you go out set your camera to iso1600 then when yoy get home go on the internet and search Gorman B+W

 

[Derrel]

Lightroom has multiple monochrome presets, one of which you'd probably like.

 

[gsgary]

Funny how people that shoot film don't ask how they can get a digital look

 

[Derrel]

Funny how people that shoot film don't ask how they can get a digital look

It's a lot like how gourmets always ask for French food, and never that God-awful British food with kidneys and brains and intestines...

 

[webestang64]

""They are always super light & kind of blurry, and there seems to be a light film/opacity over the photo." = Toy camera, buy one, shoot some film and then scan.

 

[gsgary]

It's a lot like how gourmets always ask for French food, and never that God-awful British food with kidneys and brains and intestines...

You can't beat steak and kidney pie

 

[cgw]

Got a phone?

Hipstamatic - Classic

The "look" is mostly a matter of post-processing. Try Google.

 

[compur]

Trying to make digital images look like film is analogous to those paint-by-number sets. It is paint and you do apply it yourself with a brush so it is a painting and you did do the painting yourself ...

Hey, why go through the pains of learning to do something when it's so much easier to just fool yourself into thinking you did it?

 

[KmH]

Make digital photos look like film photos.