Stage Three - Neo-Vintage

With this stage, the primary goal is to capture a camera in high detail, by putting the camera in a reversed perspective. Adding further depth from the start, using an older vintage Kodak camera, it made more sense to use it as it enabled me to highlight and define the intricate values, marks, buttons and engravings on the camera itself instead of the more smooth and clean look of a modern Canon DSLR. Keeping the camera as it originally is, the wear and tear of time was also an added bonus of detail to the camera and effectively conveys it's vintage atmosphere and authenticity. Primarily focusing on the camera lens itself helps to reinforce the development around 'The Lens' and helps shift from modern perspective-twisting images to a sudden vintage drop.

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Developing these images led me to take the route of alternatives and turn 'vintage' into a more retro-futuristic/cyberpunk theme, taking dark and sepia tones then adding colour and exposing certain areas to help convey the disjointed use of colour that follows the cyberpunk theme. Carefully selecting key areas of text and lines and making them glow with an exposure brush helps in putting across the retro-future atmosphere; juxtaposed with a vintage camera subject.

Artists:

Michael Spano,

Lee Friedlander

Focus:
Vintage camera,

Macro,

Lighting/sepia

Development:

Adobe Photoshop,

Adobe Lightroom