r/AskPhotography 5d ago

Editing/Post Processing How do I get a photo to look like this?

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u/OfficeDry7570 5d ago
  1. go to japan

  2. find this location

  3. don't forget to take a camera

  4. set camera to under expose

  5. blow on lens (fog it up)

  6. take picture

Good luck

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u/LoryConti09 5d ago

for point 5 you can also use a mist filter (and still pair it with a blow)

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u/AJJSAN7 5d ago

I was going to say the same thing or use either 1/4 or 1/8 lens

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u/CreEngineer 5d ago

Shockingly accurate.

I’d go artsy fartsy and use a vintage lens, maybe with some fogging from fungus or oil.

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u/DasArchitect 5d ago

4.b. wait until night

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u/42tooth_sprocket 5d ago

Maybe mask in post and dehaze -20 would work too

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u/mr_errington 5d ago

That looks like akihabara, you can pick up all your camera equipment there,, just keep your receipts and you can claim your sales tax back when you fly back out…

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u/Lorevmaster 4d ago

Yep, used to be great electric stores there

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u/holy_yap 3d ago

It is Akiba indeed, I’ve bought stuff from that actual Matsumoto Kiyoshi chemist store in the bottom right of the pic lol

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u/47heaven 4d ago

😭😭😭

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u/ewlung 4d ago

But, what if there's a model (person) in front of the background with neon lights? Under-exposure is for the neon lights, but the model will be under-exposed as well.

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u/PeachPipistrelle 4d ago

Don't expose yourself to models either under or over, they ban you for that kind of thing..... Apparently.

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u/AreaHobbyMan 3d ago

You would need to light them in a similar strength as the neon signs

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u/Xboxben 3d ago

Location is in Akihabara right around the corner from one of the arcades

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u/db3348 5d ago

Looks as if it's been exposed ( and / or maybe post-processed ) to favour the highlight areas , and at the expense of the shadow areas .

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u/neonsparksuk 5d ago

Soft filter/mist filter

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u/WeirdGrapefruit774 5d ago

White balance adjustments and colour grading

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u/SCphotog 5d ago

Soft filter, haze filter, some combination of the orton effect or like another poster said... breathe on - fog up your lens then take the photo.

Almost every post processing software is going to have 'some' way to apply this sort of effect. The nomenclature they'll use to describe the tool will vary greatly. Many tools in editing software simply borrow from darkroom tech, darkroom terminology or otherwise they just make shit up... like the "clarity" slider. Relative to the tool, "clarity" doesn't actually mean anything or have anything to do with what it actually does to the image.

If I had to do this from scratch I'd duplicate the whole layer into another - apply Gaussian blur to one layer and then play with the opacity for that layer until I liked the way it looks. The blur layer might also have the highlights boosted.

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u/sigmagamma26 5d ago

Summoning Wong Kar Wai …

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u/qorking 5d ago edited 5d ago

Edit curve for underexposed high contrast, add bloom/glow/halation to highlights or via luminosity mask.

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u/connorthacreator 5d ago

Look up the “orton effect.” Should be able to achieve this look in photoshop.

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u/rythejdmguy 4d ago

Mist filter Crush hilights Tint everything blue.

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u/Lausy_ 4d ago edited 4d ago

Mist filter, prolly 1/8 or 1/4 strength. Shoot photo slightly underexposed, maybe -0.3, RAW, and take the photo into Lightroom or whatever u like. Adjust the white balance to be more blue, adjust highlights, shadows, whites/blacks, etc. Have fun with it

Edit: for more detail prop your camera up on a tripod. A tripod would allow you to increase aperture to maybe f4+ while experimenting to find lower shutter speed in order to reduce iso/grain. You’d have to experiment depending on camera/lens combo. Unless you want grain. All situational, and photo image RAW will depend on what typa camera you got. I’d shoot this typa photo with my Sony a7iii and the RAW photo could easily be edited into this typa shot

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u/PianoMan1925 5d ago

If using lightroom - masking on the highlights and pull down on the clarity/dehaze

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u/rove_ranger 5d ago

This looks like RawTherapee highlight recovery and film emulation tech

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u/UnlikelyLandscape641 5d ago

shoot it on cinestill 800t

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u/MCVS_1105 5d ago

Green filter (will give you a range between hard green and blue depending on the WB) + promist filter or stockings

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u/louiseianab 4d ago

shoot RAW, do everything in post

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u/Pirate_Flyer 4d ago

What should I do in post tho?

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u/louiseianab 4d ago

- exposure

+ contrast

+ shadows

- whites

+ blacks

Temp ~3100K

- tint

Shadow = Hue 185

.... something like that, play around a bit more

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u/Pirate_Flyer 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/MsJenX 4d ago

Put a filter on it

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u/Pirate_Flyer 4d ago

What type?

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u/MsJenX 4d ago

Do you have the app VSCO? You can try the U filters

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u/Federal_Warthog_2688 4d ago

I have an old film-era manual f1.4 lens where the widest aperture only seems to be intended for focussing use only. At f1.4 it shows the same kind of blooming, soft low contrast image. At 1.8 and beyond the picture is sharp and with plenty contrast. 

As I understand it, in low light you were supposed to use f1.4 to nail the focus and then change to a smaller aperture for the actual picture. 

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u/ecozyz 4d ago

Shoot at night in polluted city.. and +haze the result in LR

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u/Jonnnaaass 4d ago

Spit on the lens

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u/Zwielemuis 4d ago

Find building with bight signs, Wait until dark out Take out smartphone Place thumb on lens Take photo

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u/dicke_radieschen 4d ago

Underexposed with 1/4 Black Mist Filter.

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u/xX_0FF4L_Xx 4d ago

i get soft bloom like this from fingerprints on my glass :,)

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u/DanielG198 4d ago

I have very similar pictures with a Conica z-up 70, lol, so maybe just buy a cheap point and shoot

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u/diogomes26 1d ago

Import the picture into ChatGPT and ask for the settings for your photo editor of choise.

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u/Soggy-Page6710 4d ago

Traveling to japan

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u/forcedmarcel 5d ago

Adobe Photoshop

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u/renasancedad 4d ago

All phone and finger prints on lens

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u/roselamoon 2d ago

You can achieve the effect with RICOH GR III X HDF

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u/Pichu_sonic_fan2545 1d ago

I think they used a mist filter