How to achieve this retro aesthetic look on C1?
Hi!
I want to replicate this style in Capture One. Photos seems film but are digital so they have edition.
I think it's more easy in lightroom (dehaze slider on negative values helps a lot) and in C1 I don't know what settings to play more.
Overall I find that C1 seems quite difficult when it comes to giving a retro and vintage look to the photos, how do you usually do?
Thanks for your feedback!
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I don't usually do this retro style, but I wanted to reply so that you don't feel being ignored.
The easy way is probably buy a film style pack, assuming you find one which you like.
Or you can try to fiddle with C1 color tools, maybe curves, and the grain tool, and save your adjustments as presets or styles, so that you can apply them on other images easily.
regards
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Thanks for your answers guys
Keith, I think these photos are not banal or bad. Photography often it's not about fine-tuning colors or taking a perfect photo, it's about transmitting sensations and emotions, and for that we may need a more "organic" feeling. So it's true that C1 it's a perfect software for optimize a good photo from camera, but it's so frustrating when we have to achieve some types of aesthetics
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Enric,
It looks like you favour a very flat profile for that look.
If so using a "standard" curve in Base Characteristics will cause you additional work since they are intended to reduce "flatness".
Try the Linear "curve" as a starting point.
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BeO is right.
Some aspects might depend on what you are starting with..
I might choose to study the Histogram of the starting point as a first step to deciding where to start.
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SFA
Many thanks dude, yes you're right, I've sometimes tried to use the linear curve, the photo turns underexposed but you have more freedom to play with the dynamic range and leave a flatter photo. It's a good starting point for that purpose!
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Hi,
Finally I've edit portrait with linear response curve, play with exposure, contrast and HDR, and make low contrast curve on RGB curve. Not bad I think!
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It's certainly an interesting look.
In the right place with the right light I can see it being a result that differentiates your style from what most others may be doing.
Reduce contrast, slightly compensate on saturation and using Auto-levels (in separate channel mode) are a regular starting point for me. In your case I would probably skip the increased saturation and maybe do something more specific to experiment with the stronger colours of an image, either with more or less saturation according to the image's needs, later in the post processing steps.
As a small observation I find the shadow/bright areas in the face in your image a little distracting. Some of the skin shadows seem to shift the skin tone just a touch too far from the more illuminated areas. I'm wondering if the skin tone adjustment feature of of the colour tool could soften that effect a little. You do run some risk in a "flat" and "light" file for suffering from the effects of colour compression when exporting to jpg. It may need some careful handling - depending on your ultimate requirements or those of a client.
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this is the look I ma after. I would like to know how you create this look on the last photo you post here. I know this is a very old post , if you don't mind to share.
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I might choose to study the Histogram of the starting point as a first step to deciding where to start.
Regarding the other conversation, with a vectorscope in C1 you could load that target image, see how colors are distributed on the image, and then you have a good aid in pushing your colors in your own image into that direction. A vectorscope is utmost useful for the hues and saturation, not so much for color lightness and other properties of the image like contrast, but here you have the histogram.
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Besides, Capture One isn't really about making already banal images look even worse...
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