so i'm working on this creative project and am trying to get into photography since i literally don't have money to hire someone to realise my vision

there's a bunch of photographers that i like but don't know s*** about photography and how they achieve their shots.

i know about about digital and film cameras but that's about it.

does anyone know how to achieve a similar aesthetic to these shots? like, are they taken on a digital camera or film? how do i achieve that 'grainy' effect?

mods pls don't move the thread

film camera. i have a yashica t4
has a great lense for a small camera

casualphotophile.com/2019/05/06/yashica-t4-camera-review

mickeyalicekwapis.com/blog/yashicat4

Post-editing in Lightroom (digital, working with RAW files)

those were taken with a medium format camera (bigger film negatives than your typical point-and-shoot camera) . it needs the knowledge about lighting techniques, shutter speed/aperture/ISO, film exposure, developing, scanning to achieve this look. Or you can get your film developed by professional labs.
but this was 100% not digital, look at the colors and the dynamics. the pictures don't look as flat as those hyper sterile digital photos.

a couple of those photos you linked are definitely from a film camera, you can tell from that nice a***og faded look, and the rest is from digital.

I mainly work in digital its the easiest to get started working with right away. I need a new camera and more lens but I use a Nikon d3300 mask.

you're gonna need a tripod to get the best crisp shots you can.

I'm anti Adobe applications so I don't use Lightroom, I use Affinity Photo and that works great for me.

Honestly its really just about composition when it comes to photography, I always shoot in manual. Learn Aperture and Shutter speeds and ISO.

And it's Ideal to learn more about your camera and all the in's and outs and just experimenting in the editing process. Kinda why starting in digital is better cause you can just cop a 64 gb sd card and take thousands of pics and practice.

bro i JUST saw a tik tok tutorial on that red overlay for the third pic using an iphone. basically he put a tape over his flash, colored it red and had some kind of light refractor on it, the rest is post editing

here it is vm.tiktok.com/ZMe81DXfW

dam I’m a sucker for a slightly over exposed portrait lit by brake lights.

Bookmarked.

these are so dope

thanks so much for the info! i definitely think i'm gonna shoot digital gotta look for cameras too though.

is there any major differences in the camera you use?

you cant just buy a camera and expect to take photos like these. those photographers had practice for years.

I always wanted to get a film camera because I think pictures from film have this nice aesthetic.

But how do you transfer pictures from film to your computer? Do you go to like cvs scan them onto cd/usb and then go home and transfer onto pc?

Yeah when u get them developed they can put them on a CD or USB

Who does that, besides CVS?

just gotta look up "film developing" in your area. I use Color Resource Center (CRC) in NYC but haven't gone there in a while.

thanks

how much are they charging?

Imagine shooting digital

and missing out on the experience of paying $23 to develop and scan a roll like this

All these shots are color graded for sure you can probably replicate this with a DSLR, a lens with good depth of field and photoshop

Film is the better option