Anyone tried intentional Lo-fi with modern DSLRs?

[Orangecroc]

I have been thinking about playing around with settings. Was wondering if anyone had had a go at it.
I was thinking that intentionally using high ISO to add grain and narrow apertures to introduce distortion. Haven't actually done anything so far.

 

[Orangecroc]

Something a bit like this. This was with my phone camera with the ISO intentionally pushed to the maximum with white balance also "off"

 

[MatBin]

50D at max Iso and harsh it up in PS gives you a very Monet ish result.
Matt

 

[johnf3f]

I often deliberately shoot at high ISO in Mono - like the effect!

Coupled with my pinhole lens it can give some very atmospheric results if I do my part.

 

[alfbranch]

Try Lomo plastic lens or pinhole

A dessicated dogfish by Alf Branch, on Flickr

There is also fre lensing hold any lens whether it fits the camera or not in front of it and compose and image tilting it up down left or right gives different effects these were with a 28mm f2.8 Olympus OM lens lens that did not fime 4/3 SLR

Free-lensing-1 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Free-lensing-2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Free-lensing-3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[Orangecroc]

Very cool ideas, thank you guys.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I have been thinking about playing around with settings. Was wondering if anyone had had a go at it.
I was thinking that intentionally using high ISO to add grain and narrow apertures to introduce distortion. Haven't actually done anything so far.

Small apertures do not introduce distortion, but they do increase diffraction and depth of field whilst at the same time reducing some other aberrations and vignetting.

 

[ABTog]

This was a pinhole shot taken on my 60D last year. I used an old body cap and made a tiny hole in a piece of aluminium taped over it.

Pinhole Street Style by Alistair Beavis, on Flickr

Here's what the body cap looked like:
pinhole lenscap by Alistair Beavis, on Flickr

Here's a guide too: https://www.howtogeek.com/161794/how-to-take-pinhole-photos-with-a-digital-camera/

 

[ABTog]

I have been thinking about playing around with settings. Was wondering if anyone had had a go at it.
I was thinking that intentionally using high ISO to add grain and narrow apertures to introduce distortion. Haven't actually done anything so far.

If you want the grainy look, you can just add that in Lightroom afterwards. As for using apertures to introduce distortion, I'm not entirely sure you'd be able to do that without cutting down the light too much. IE, at f22 there won't be much light getting in at all, but you may not see much distortion either. If that's your intention, I would suggest getting a vintage lens, just something cheap off ebay to give you distortion and unique lens characteristics.

 

[Orangecroc]

If you want the grainy look, you can just add that in Lightroom afterwards. As for using apertures to introduce distortion, I'm not entirely sure you'd be able to do that without cutting down the light too much. IE, at f22 there won't be much light getting in at all, but you may not see much distortion either. If that's your intention, I would suggest getting a vintage lens, just something cheap off ebay to give you distortion and unique lens characteristics.

I've got a couple of vintage lenses to play with. I can only learn what effects these things have if I try, I won't be losing out by doing it

 

[weybourne]

When I first got my 50D I upped the ISO to 12800 and used some aggressive sharpening to increase the grain on this image:

 

[LC2]

I did a bit of pinhole with my old 1100d which came out ok (ish) if a bit washed out, but gave that body and kit lens to my old dad when his Fuji bridge died.
Tried it again a bit later with a 350d we had kicking about and it was a dust spot fest!

Fun though. Creating images like that.

 

[woof woof]

One thing I tried was inspired by photographs I saw at non photography exhibitions at museums. Pictures that were enlarged way beyond what the original shot would look good at, pictures with too much or too little contrast, that sort of thing, just technically bad pictures that had a certain charm. I had a go at making pictures that looked something like them, I shot with my Panasonic G1 and an old Minolta Rokkor 50mm lens, cropped the pictures very heavily and spent time in CS distressing them

Some examples...

 

[Ste_S]

If you want the grainy look, you can just add that in Lightroom afterwards.

Yup. For most 'Lomo' style effects, there's a filter for that.

Rather than adding effects (either physically or digitally) to modern DSLRs, I wonder if older (are they retro yet ?) digital cameras and the look you can get from them will come into vogue. Old phone cameras becoming the modern toy camera ?

 

[Orangecroc]

One thing I tried was inspired by photographs I saw at non photography exhibitions at museums. Pictures that were enlarged way beyond what the original shot would look good at, pictures with too much or too little contrast, that sort of thing, just technically bad pictures that had a certain charm. I had a go at making pictures that looked something like them, I shot with my Panasonic G1 and an old Minolta Rokkor 50mm lens, cropped the pictures very heavily and spent time in CS distressing them

Some examples...

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Those are very cool.

Yup. For most 'Lomo' style effects, there's a filter for that.

Rather than adding effects (either physically or digitally) to modern DSLRs, I wonder if older (are they retro yet ?) digital cameras and the look you can get from them will come into vogue. Old phone cameras becoming the modern toy camera ?

I hate adding effects afterwards. I would rather teach myself to make an image look the way I want it to.