Low fi

Photographic Colour Tones

Saturation Contrast

Contrast is the difference between the lights and the darks within a image. If you have a picture that has little contrast, it is usually very subdued. If you take an image and turn down the contrast, the light parts of the picture become darker, and the dark parts become lighter. In this image it is a high contrast, the blacks are very the black and the whites are very white, there is no mid-tones, colours such as grey for example

Contrast

Increasing saturation by 50% each image

Saturation

Saturation is the amount of a color. Increasing saturation purifies that color and enhances it and makes it vibrant. Decreasing it draws the color out of it. De-saturating generally means removing all the colour altogether.

Decreasing saturation by 50% each image

Create a single page on Contrast and a single page for saturation

1) Enter information on single page for each2)Make your own demonstration single pages-Photoshop/powerpoint

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Low Fi/Mo Photography

Holga Camera

What is it?What are the image characteristic's/conventions?

Diana Camera

Low Fi• Low fi cameras were originally produced in China

for the sole purpose of making photography affordable

• Originally for family portraits/events• 120 medium format film• Converted to 35mm film (foreign market)• Affordability increased their use in the street

genre

Low Fi construction• The low quality of materials used in low fi cameras has

consequences to the image quality/appearance. These visual conventions were originally a negative but now they are seen as a huge positives and has helped create a cult following and movement.

Low Fi camera characteristics

Vignetting is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center. This is caused by poor quality lens

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A light leak is a hole or gap in the body of a camera where light is able to "leak" into the normally light-tight chamber, exposing the film or sensor with extra light. This light is diffuse, although parts within the camera may cast shadows or reflect it in a particular way. For most purposes this is considered a problem. Within the lomography movement it is seen as a positive effect, giving photos character.

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Low Fi camera characteristics

Chromatic aberration/Distortion

Chromatic aberration is a type of distortion in which there is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same convergence point. It is the failure to record when two colour’s meat one another. In particular when a bright and dark colour are near one another an additional dark line is placed in this area by Low Fi camera as a results of the low quality lens

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Low Fi camera characteristics

High Saturation

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Saturation is the amount of a color. Increasing saturation purifies that color and enhances it and makes it vibrant. Decreasing it draws the color out of it. De-saturating generally means removing all the color altogether.

Low Fi camera characteristics

Low Fi camera characteristics

High ContrastContrast is the difference between the lights and the darks within a image. If you have a picture that has little contrast, it is usually very subdued. If you take an image and turn down the contrast, the light parts of the picture become darker, and the dark parts become lighter. In this image it is a high contrast, the blacks are very the black and the whites are very white, there is no mid-tones, colours such as grey for examples

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A double Page Low Mo overview

1) Enter general information2)Go through the 5 conventions/characteristics, with an image stuck in to demonstrate each of them

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Turning our Digital images into Low fi Prints

Applying the characteristics;High contrastHigh saturationVignetteLight leaks

Turning our Digital images into Low fi Prints

Applying the characteristics;High contrastHigh saturationVignetteLight leaks

1) Insert image into Photoshop2) Click on the Polygonal tool, apply 80-100 feather3) Draw rough vignette, Click Select/Inverse4) Click Layer/New adjustment layer/Levels, change middle box from 1.00 to 40-50 depending on vignette strength

Now for saturation and contrast5)Click Layer/New adjustment layer/Curves 6)Click image/adjustment/curves and draw a slanted S like so7) Now flattern the image, click layer/flattern imageMore tone8) Click Layer/New layer9) Fill the layer with black using the paint bucket10) Reduced the opacity to around 20%11) Then on the layer window change blending mode to hue12) Click image/mode/Lab colour/13) In the layer window click the eye on everything but lightnessSharpen14) Click Filter/sharpen/unsharp mask- Amount 50/Radius 30-50/threshold 015) Click image/mode/RGB colour16) Finally click file/save as/Jpeg

Vignette

Cross processing tone

Digital Prints to Low Fi/Mo images via Photoshop