Film Look

The $199 Camera That Makes People Actually Want to Talk to You
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The $199 Camera That Makes People Actually Want to Talk to You

I spend a lot of time in coffee shops staring at screens. Laptop screen, phone screen, occasionally the menu board because I’ve been awake since 5am and still can’t decide if I want a cortado. So when I came across a camera designed with zero screens, I stopped scrolling immediately. In Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Tony Northrup walks through the CampSnap CS-8 – a $199 video camera that shoots Hi8-style footage, has physical analog dials for battery and storage, and deliberately gives you no way to review your footage until you get home.

Lifting the Blacks: How to Nail That Moody Dark Film Look in Photoshop
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Lifting the Blacks: How to Nail That Moody Dark Film Look in Photoshop

Client work has a way of forcing you to learn things fast. I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to fake that moody, washed-out film look by just dragging the exposure slider down and hoping for the best. The result was always the same: muddy, flat, and nothing like the cinematic shadow work I was going for. The problem wasn’t my eye. It was that I was using the wrong tool for the job.