I’ve been playing around with Nik Software’s new Analog Efex Pro 2 photo processing software (brought to you by the good folks at Google) all weekend long and I’m super impressed. The purist film photographers out there are probably going to hate this new software, but for you digital photographers who dig an analog look and feel, you are going to love this.
I shot film exclusively for about 15 years before switching to digital in the early 2000s. While there is an absolute undeniable romance with rolling your own film, hanging out in a darkroom with your college girlfriend, and licking the fixer off your own prints you made yourself, it’s not something I think I’ll ever go back to — unless and maybe when my hipster buddy Daniel Krieger finally convinces me to buy a film Hasselblad.
I used to joke around with anyone who asked me what camera I shot and tell them a Holga. Now it’s like I really am shooting a Holga, just with my Canon 5D Mark III. 😉
Anyways, check out 20 different looks you can create with Analog Efex Pro 2. I’m a fan. You can buy it here if you want.
Motion Blur. It’s like owning a lensbaby without having to actually use one of those horrible awkward things. Just kidding, lensbabys are great!
How did I ever get a double exposure of this classic neon sign? I’ll never tell.
Hey It’s Amanda Morgan shot with my cool Toy Camera #9.
Wet plate photography, without all the sticky wet plates.
Jenna Jamieson shot with Toy Camera #1.
Every respectable concert photographer brings their Toy Camera #2 to the photo pit these days. Chvrches rock!
Instant triptychs.
Classic Camera #7 has such a nice warm film feel, doesn’t it?
Hey tilt shift and I didn’t even have to buy the $2,500 Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lens! Which is a totally awesome lens by the way that I actually will buy someday. Canon L lenses are the best. I cannot say enough positive things about all my Canon glass. I’m not being sarcastic there, I’m being serious.
One of my neon signs that I took back in 1972 while on a photography junket across America with Stephen Shore.
Motion blur with Jeremiah Owyang. It’s just like Star Wars only better because it’s got Jeremiah in it.
Colorcast #2 makes butterflies look so pretty.
Colorcast #2 makes models look so pretty too, but this one was already pretty to begin with. 🙂
I think this painting from the Met in New York City looks better this way, don’t you? I could totally print this up and hang this in my house. So can you too, because I licensed it Creative Commons non-commercial. Friends share right? 😉
Oopsie, a little light leak thing happened in my Holga again.
Doing wet plate photography in Holbrook, Arizona.
Love the authentic real life colors from Classic Camera #2 on this San Francisco victorian in the Mission District. A couple million in stock options and this too can be yours.
Smoothdude let me borrow his Hasselblad to make this photo on our Route 66 trip last year.
I took a photo of my Kodak Instamatic with my Kodak Instamatic. Get it?
More Seattle fun with Toy Camera #2.
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