How do I achieve this look? Lens or movement?

**wallpaperviking** · 15-Jul-2020, 18:49

Yes, his lighting techniques are anything but conventional, that and the use of a 8 x 10 Deardorff and 809 polaroid gave his images a very unique look in the fashion world... Since switching to digital (due to Polaroid becoming unavailable) I am less of a fan of his work unfortunately...

I would like to think that there really was not that much digital manipulation occurring but who knows.... It was also shot in 2006, so was not as common to be messing with images as much as today...

I have tried blurring parts of an image before and it is extremely hard to do. I am no heavyweight in digital manipulation but even other friends of mine who are say it is very hard to do and make the image look natural.

Here are the other shots in the series...

http://infashionswetrust.blogspot.co...alia-2006.html

I originally thought that this was shot on location but after looking at the backgrounds again, it could easily have been shot in his studio, which is where he still does the bulk of his work...

What do you think about the backgrounds? A projected image? Or maybe a fabric with these cathedral type images as the image?

Thanks!

**Ulophot** · 15-Jul-2020, 19:12

Perhaps it's possible that the poster on the linked page created some of that look himself. It's a kind of posterization in parts of the image, which can be caused by limiting the color pallete as a mean of compression.

**wallpaperviking** · 15-Jul-2020, 20:37

Very possible, as it could have been scanned from a magazine or simply rephotographed....

I don't see the issue you are talking about but could also just be a limit of the Polaroid 809 itself...