flamingpeacesign
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Hello, apologies for what must be an irritating question for film photography enthusiasts, but I mean well. Over the past month or two I've been researching and trying to learn about the basics of film photography, as while I have a digital camera that works fantastic (a Sony a3000) and I've been taking photos with for years now, I find that I really enjoy the wait of 'development' for individual images and the point-and-shoot method I tend to use with an app on my phone called HUJI, and I enjoy the results much more than I do my digital photographs. I can compose and edit digital photographs until perfection, but for quick memorable moments that I want to keep as parts of an ongoing casual personal photo album, I've been using the HUJI filter app since 2018 and the photos through it provide me much more joy than my digital photographs do.
I've spent time analyzing what aspects of the photos taken with the HUJI app that I like and want to replicate, which would be the richly saturated colors, the temperature of the photos creating dramatic color pallets, the occasional light leaks, chromatic aberration, the gigantic variety of imperfections from simulated issues imposed onto the photos, the occasional blurring or stretching of details (see second photograph's leaves and the bottom corners of the third photograph, both attached below), and the timestamps are a nice touch that make organizing my photos for printing much easier. I know I could edit my digital photos to have these as well, but editing each photo individually would be next to impossible and I would really like to go more authentic and respect the craft that film photography is, not settle for inauthenticity through a gimmicky app.
From what I understand, the film used and the chemicals used in development would be the most important factors in creating images with most of those visual aspects related to color, its intensity and saturation as described above. For the light leaks and technical errors & imperfections, I wonder if there's specific cameras or lenses that are known to have inspired this trend where people are fascinated by and actively seek out & purposefully create these errors in their photographs, to the point where people digitally edit them in for the visual effects they provide. My question is, how would I go about taking film photographs that look like the products of the HUJI app, if it's even possible in the first place? Are there any resources such as books, websites or stores I could look to to learn more about this in particular, not just about film photography as a whole? Has anyone taken film photos that are even distantly similar to these photos, or include any of the aspects outlined above? How were they achieved?
Attached are a few images I've taken with HUJI on my iPhone 5 that I feel represent the aspects I love about it best- I know they're not 'good' or worth much in terms of quality, composition or anything, but that's because I like to use it for quick shots of moments to look back on later, as opposed to photographs taken with more care and consideration that I would take using my digital camera. And, at the end of the day, even if they're 'bad' they still make me happy which in my book makes them 'good' enough.
I've spent time analyzing what aspects of the photos taken with the HUJI app that I like and want to replicate, which would be the richly saturated colors, the temperature of the photos creating dramatic color pallets, the occasional light leaks, chromatic aberration, the gigantic variety of imperfections from simulated issues imposed onto the photos, the occasional blurring or stretching of details (see second photograph's leaves and the bottom corners of the third photograph, both attached below), and the timestamps are a nice touch that make organizing my photos for printing much easier. I know I could edit my digital photos to have these as well, but editing each photo individually would be next to impossible and I would really like to go more authentic and respect the craft that film photography is, not settle for inauthenticity through a gimmicky app.
From what I understand, the film used and the chemicals used in development would be the most important factors in creating images with most of those visual aspects related to color, its intensity and saturation as described above. For the light leaks and technical errors & imperfections, I wonder if there's specific cameras or lenses that are known to have inspired this trend where people are fascinated by and actively seek out & purposefully create these errors in their photographs, to the point where people digitally edit them in for the visual effects they provide. My question is, how would I go about taking film photographs that look like the products of the HUJI app, if it's even possible in the first place? Are there any resources such as books, websites or stores I could look to to learn more about this in particular, not just about film photography as a whole? Has anyone taken film photos that are even distantly similar to these photos, or include any of the aspects outlined above? How were they achieved?
Attached are a few images I've taken with HUJI on my iPhone 5 that I feel represent the aspects I love about it best- I know they're not 'good' or worth much in terms of quality, composition or anything, but that's because I like to use it for quick shots of moments to look back on later, as opposed to photographs taken with more care and consideration that I would take using my digital camera. And, at the end of the day, even if they're 'bad' they still make me happy which in my book makes them 'good' enough.
