Hi everyone,
Are there any artistic peeps or photoshop gurus here who would advise how to get that BOC look to photos?
Would appreciate it
Cheers
J
That BOC look...
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Re: That BOC look...
Jinjur wrote:Hi everyone,
Are there any artistic peeps or photoshop gurus here who would advise how to get that BOC look to photos?
Would appreciate it
Cheers
J
The BOC look is really an amalgamation of various things .
1. NFB like content about beavers and canoes
2. Specific periods 70's - 80's
3. Limited options for how people captured memories in those periods .Like Kodachrome 40 & II or
ektachrome super 8mm and the use of Kodak slides / Polaroid Instant film via machines like the
SX-70 . Also Vintage Video tube cameras .
4. Unique architectural backdrops .
If I wanted to make something from scratch the legit way would be to shoot something on super 8 or a Polaroid/lomo camera with a cool stock . Scan it in to photoshop then download some high res grunge brushes . You could also make your own by scanning in water color splotches and scratches . Add some warm grunge marks in the pallet complementary to the photos theme, copy them and place them on a new layer also try experimenting with blending modes .
http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/comments ... ge_effect/
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/ ... /?q=grunge
http://www.neilkrug.com/
http://blog.iso50.com/category/photography/
http://blog.iso50.com/category/record-covers/
http://www.lomography.com/
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or photoshopthepastinsidepressant wrote:you will need:
Polaroid Land Automatic 100
Spectra ProCam
Mamiya 600 SE
One Step
SX-70
i-zone
Pronto RF
Lubitel 166 B
Holga camera variations
Colorburst 350
Brownie target Six-16
Exa Jhagee Dresden
Pentax Spotmatic
Regula Sprinty 300
1 or 2 Nikons or Canons.
sorted
fun thing to do with polaroids, you can layer them and stuff.
If you're feeling handy you can try and make a pinhole camera too. We did that in girl scouts and the pictures are neat.
Or you can fuck around in photoshop. But having actual pictures on film is more satisfying to me, probably because I'm old and it's what I grew up with.
If you're feeling handy you can try and make a pinhole camera too. We did that in girl scouts and the pictures are neat.
Or you can fuck around in photoshop. But having actual pictures on film is more satisfying to me, probably because I'm old and it's what I grew up with.
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Messing about with film definitely seems like the ideal option. My old housemate from last year has a film camera, and those photographs just look so much like memories. Maybe that's a generational thing given that I grew up in the early 90s so all old photos of me are nostalgic and filmy (some of them look like they could be the cover for some weird chillwave band's EP or something), getting more clear (digital) as I've grown up and more aware.rainier wrote:fun thing to do with polaroids, you can layer them and stuff.
If you're feeling handy you can try and make a pinhole camera too. We did that in girl scouts and the pictures are neat.
Or you can fuck around in photoshop. But having actual pictures on film is more satisfying to me, probably because I'm old and it's what I grew up with.
Convenient generation to be in for that sort of wankery thought process, haha.
Makes me wonder if babies born now will get mega nostalgic for Instagram filters...
I'm sure some day digital snapshots etc will generate their own kind of nostalgia, it's just hard for me to envision how that would be because of my generational bias.
One thing I think will get lost in the ages is the sheer amount of accidentally cool pictures, because it's so easy to delete a picture you don't like these days. Back when rolls of film were the norm pictures got thrown away less often and you had the negatives too. So you can go back through them and find an image that works as a piece of visual art a lot better then it works as a snapshot that might have just been deleted at first sight had it been digital.
So much stuff that boc references is becoming obsolete so it won't have the same direct connection for younger fans, like I imagine not as many of them grew up with slide projectors and nature documentary film reels with warbly ass synths and stuff. Not that it can't appeal to them or evoke a sense of nostalgia, it just won't be as rooted in the direct experience of those references.
I remember when those sesame street clips were all getting tracked down and it was such a punch in the heart because I could remember so well being pants pooping age and loving that "Orange!" guy. It's weirdly powerful.
One thing I think will get lost in the ages is the sheer amount of accidentally cool pictures, because it's so easy to delete a picture you don't like these days. Back when rolls of film were the norm pictures got thrown away less often and you had the negatives too. So you can go back through them and find an image that works as a piece of visual art a lot better then it works as a snapshot that might have just been deleted at first sight had it been digital.
So much stuff that boc references is becoming obsolete so it won't have the same direct connection for younger fans, like I imagine not as many of them grew up with slide projectors and nature documentary film reels with warbly ass synths and stuff. Not that it can't appeal to them or evoke a sense of nostalgia, it just won't be as rooted in the direct experience of those references.
I remember when those sesame street clips were all getting tracked down and it was such a punch in the heart because I could remember so well being pants pooping age and loving that "Orange!" guy. It's weirdly powerful.
Google textures that are big-- such as big pieces of paper, old paper, unexposed film, etc, and play with blending modes overtop of your photos.
Painting with a dark orange brush stroke around the edges and playing again with blend modes will give a more realistic edge vignetting/exposure burn. You can only really break it down so much though; film grain does NOT look like digital noise, film grain has such an awesome tactile quality to it.
However, there's ways to accomplish it, but its not a guarentee with every photo because blend modes are affected differently. Make a black layer and generate noise onto it; Image > Adjustments > threshold and you can make the noise a bit more selective, and a bit less uniform, to try to convey some more character with it. Be very slight with the threshold. Making that noise interact with the colours and textures of the photo beneath it is tricky, and you will likely have to mask different parts over differently contrasting areas with altered layer blend modes. Attention to detail counts when you're trying to fake film grain, with an expired film look. Random specks of hotter white will be present, so adding an extra layer of noise with a slightly thicker looking static/cutting with threshold to make only VERY few bigger specs visible, will give an extra layer to the film grain. So it's not just one size. That prolly didn't make much sense
Is there a specific photo you want to apply this look to? Maybe we can help but ye my 2 cents.
Painting with a dark orange brush stroke around the edges and playing again with blend modes will give a more realistic edge vignetting/exposure burn. You can only really break it down so much though; film grain does NOT look like digital noise, film grain has such an awesome tactile quality to it.
However, there's ways to accomplish it, but its not a guarentee with every photo because blend modes are affected differently. Make a black layer and generate noise onto it; Image > Adjustments > threshold and you can make the noise a bit more selective, and a bit less uniform, to try to convey some more character with it. Be very slight with the threshold. Making that noise interact with the colours and textures of the photo beneath it is tricky, and you will likely have to mask different parts over differently contrasting areas with altered layer blend modes. Attention to detail counts when you're trying to fake film grain, with an expired film look. Random specks of hotter white will be present, so adding an extra layer of noise with a slightly thicker looking static/cutting with threshold to make only VERY few bigger specs visible, will give an extra layer to the film grain. So it's not just one size. That prolly didn't make much sense
Is there a specific photo you want to apply this look to? Maybe we can help
but ye my 2 cents.Yes.hexagon son wrote:I think Cupz was trying to say, just don't bother trying to emulate.
AND, I wouldn't categorize the artwork as "effects" or "looks". There's allot more going on in their work then just old cameras, grain, dust or whatever you'd like to get out of your Photoshop. Instagram is a good example because it shows that when you add those "looks" and "effects" to a cup of coffee, it wont make it a whole lot more exciting. Its still just a boring old cup of coffee (but...its starbucks coffee!
). If you really want that butterfly-in-stomach-feel to your photography, I suggest making pictures of things that actually make you feel that way. (Maybe using your dads old camera, remember that one that took all those pictures in your family photo-album? remember that wet dream you had as a kid?). You don't even need to add anything. You can even take the photo with crappy composition, bad lighting and printed on toilet paper if the thing you are photographing is powerful enough.
And this is coming from a guy that doesn't know shit about photography.
edit: PS> This works for the creation of music, and maybe even all art, as well.
Throw away your smartphone.
I hear you bud......well, I take pics of things that I find interesting, not shit if you know what i mean.....
I just thought i fancied styling a lot of my stuff in that weathered manner and arsing round in Photoshop, i have never been able to recreate that look
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunjcake/
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I just thought i fancied styling a lot of my stuff in that weathered manner and arsing round in Photoshop, i have never been able to recreate that look
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunjcake/
J
Does anyone remember those cheesy little thumbnail polaroid's? it looked like a disposable but you fed it instant film that you tore away from a backing just like a full sized polaroid. I used to shoot these and then scan and enlarge them. They would be kind of out of focus and saturated like old film. Some looked like powerful/aged images, as long as I went for abstract and didn't expect anything specific. One was of sunlight bouncing through a plastic bottle, and got used for mini-cd artwork for a mix I made for a friend, which started with sunshine recorder. I started doing this while geogaddi came out so I don't think I can find more film.
Bibio's new video has some beautiful 8mm film. It's also a weird blend of digital and analog techniques, with old film scanned to fit digitally-shot outlines.
Bibio's new video has some beautiful 8mm film. It's also a weird blend of digital and analog techniques, with old film scanned to fit digitally-shot outlines.
You could shoot with slide film, project the slides and take a digital picture of the projection. You could also come up with ways of mistreating your negatives.
But that would be dishonest. I see pictures from the 70s and earlier that still look futuristic and it'd be very sad to be in 2050 and see pictures from 2013 that look like the 70s.
I'd rather look at various media and think about its underside and work with that, you'll eventually come up with techniques if you're really interested.
But that would be dishonest. I see pictures from the 70s and earlier that still look futuristic and it'd be very sad to be in 2050 and see pictures from 2013 that look like the 70s.
I'd rather look at various media and think about its underside and work with that, you'll eventually come up with techniques if you're really interested.
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the izone, yes! Thank you. I hadn't thought of it in so long. people laughed at me for having one:)
I've been reading a few bibio interviews lately about how he creates his art, and I think most can be found here: http://mrbibio.tumblr.com/
It's really cool stuff, like the making of the Mind Bokeh cover.
I've been reading a few bibio interviews lately about how he creates his art, and I think most can be found here: http://mrbibio.tumblr.com/
It's really cool stuff, like the making of the Mind Bokeh cover.