OH MY GOSH, ok ok ok, so! I got a Kodak Duaflex 2 a while ago, but never really used it, just had it because. Anyways, i load a reel of modified 120 colored film in the camera and go shooting. When these were developed i was in awe at what i was seeing. only 4 photos out of 16 came out, which was alright, first roll was expected to fail miserably, but god it didn't at all.
The first two images above are from the roll of film. something about the square crop and the dirty lens just makes the photo so interesting. i could easily duplicate this effect in photoshop but there is just something about shooting with a medium format camera that is just so cool. sorry, right now i am so happy with this project!
Anywho, because it cost me $13.65 to buy and have the roll developed i decided that i needed to create a layer and action in photoshop to duplicate this effect. I started by created a tube that lead from my macro lens of my rebel xti to the view finder on the kodak duaflex. this is called 'through the viewfinder, ttv'. i faced the duaflex to a white wall and took an over exposed image on my digital slr. i took this photo to duplicate the look of what you would get from shooting film. i could of just easily just cropped a regular image and added a border around it, but no, this way way cooler.
after taking a photo through the view finder to capture the unique border the camera gives and the dirty lens i cleaned it up in photoshop. the last image shown is an image i took last month out in napa, ca. to get it to look like it was shot through a duaflex 2 camera i cropped it to a square, messed with the colors of the image to give it that older film look. i then took the image i got from the view finder and adjusted the blending mode to have it become transparent.
Surprisingly, it worked really well. no one seems to know the difference, well... until now. WOO!
if you are interested in using the layer for your own projects, send me an email at photo@ryanjay.com. i can hook you up.
i love you all.
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