VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

Vintage, retro, and old-style and every trend from the past is fast becoming a new trend even in the photography and imaging industry. Vintage photography basically is utilising colours, black and white or colour slide film in an analog camera. The best thing that happened to vintage shooters especially in this digital age and fast extinction of the analog camera, is the rise of the mirrorless camera. The mirrorless camera helps you mount and shoot with virtually any vintage lens using relatively inexpensive adapters.

Vintage photography is an old genre of photography but notwithstanding there are steps photographers can take to achieve a vintage shoot and some of which we would be discussing below.

• FAKE DUST AND SCRATCHES: In the process of developing, printing and scanning, a film photograph can get blurred, damaged, and very often would get dust in it. So if you want to give the viewer the sense that your photograph was made a long time ago, physically manipulated, and then scanned for them to be seeing it now, you can add dust and scratches. This can be done with Lightroom presets  or adding texture to your images in Photoshop.
• MANIPULATE COLOURS: Vintage photographs have a distinguished black and white colour with a look of it being old and retro. This is the essence of the vintage look and this also can be done using the Lightroom.
• USE SPECIAL SOFTWARE: Aside from Instagram filters or Lightroom presets, if you want to get serious about vintage photography there are softwares that will give you many more options. Example of such is the  Analog Effex Pro 2 from the Nik collection and a number of other software that can help enhance the vintage look.