Real Simulated Vintage Film Effect of Simulated Vintage Film Effect!

[Ysarex86 80]

So cool!!! Now when someone looks at your photo and says, "love the VSCO effect there," you can say, "nope that's a real film simulation of a vintage film simulation -- none of that fake digital sh*t for me!"

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What a concept -- pre-damaged film to match your $300.00 jeans with holes in them.

Joe

 

[480sparky41 40]

Genuine imitation!

 

[dxqcanada2]

Ok, that's it ... I going to pull my film out of the freezer and leave it sitting on the car dashboard for a year or two ... then sell it for $50.00 a roll to the Lomoheads.

 

[Derrel]

Huh....dubblefilm dot com...how odd.

I wonder what 30 seconds in the microwave with the film enclosed within a small cardboard box would do to a typical Kodak color negative film's scene rendering?

 

[limr31]

I am the first one to admit that it can be fun to play with things like redscale film or plastic lenses, and I am certainly ready to defend imperfections in an image, but dear lord, this exhausts me.

When something happens organically, it's a happy accident and that's fine. I'll never be able to recreate the following image, and quite frankly, I don't want to, even if I quite like it. If I learn to recreate this reliably, it becomes a gimmick and that's when my photography becomes trite and boring (if it hasn't already ).


Day 26 - Diner by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Even when one purposely uses a technique to create a certain kind of imperfection, I'm good with that. It means that there is a specific purpose and intention for adding an imperfection; it is done deliberately to add to the artistic vision. This means that the person actually has a vision. Not all shots are "Holga shots" or "instant shots" but sometimes, you'll see a scene and the feel of the image that you have in your head can only be captured if you have the softer plastic lens or the paticular color variations of an instant emulsion.


Riverside by limrodrigues, on Flickr


rAloe throws shade by limrodrigues, on Flickr

But the whole artifice of imperfection for its own sake is tiresome, and it also gives film shooters like me a bad name. And that annoys me.

 

[zombiesniper115 14]

If you have to resort to a gimmick to make people think your shots are interesting..........they're not. Learn why and correct it.

Just give it time, this may well be the next hipster instasnapface trend.....It'll only make our images look that much better.

 

[Derrel]

I still admire that photo entitled Riverside.

 

[limr31]

If you have to resort to a gimmick to make people think your shots are interesting..........they're not. Learn why and correct it.

Was this a "you, generally" sort of a statement, or a "you, specifically, who just posted" statement?

I still admire that photo entitled Riverside.

Thanks

 

[vintagesnaps]

I had only glanced at this before; it's kinda not really new, or that big of a deal. I've gotten 110 film that Lomography started doing some time ago that's redscale, or has a cross processed effect, etc. I didn't get much using it that was all that interesting and liked the B&W as well as anything but it was fun playing with it.

So now that I looked at it, apparently Kono is a company in Austria that makes experimental films (and I never heard of them before). And Dubble partnered with them to do films and some digital stuff (which I lost interest in... but I guess they started out doing apps, etc.).

The bubble gum pink is an odd tone, I'm not sure what I'd do with that, and the Monsoon just looks rather murky. Their Sunstroke looks like a lousy attempt to recreate light leaks (but it doesn't really look like light leaks) so I think I'd pass on that one. The one that looks interesting to me is the Moonstruck because it reminds me of the Cinestill tungsten film. I'd maybe try a roll of that... Or just go look at the Kono film.

To me it's film that was 'pretreated' in some way and is just experimental and takes figuring out how to use it (or not use it!). Kind of like The Impossible Project films that were blue/cyan, pink, etc.; I liked the cyan but I didn't find a lot that worked well in pink and black. If I try a roll of this I'll just ignore the apps and sharing etc. and just go shoot the film.

edit - And I like that shade throwing aloe plant!

 

[zombiesniper115 14]

Was this a "you, generally" sort of a statement, or a "you, specifically, who just posted" statement?

General. Not aimed at anyone.