Is it possible to achieve this look with RA4?

Petr Polyakov · Oct 21, 2021

Hello everybody! I'm quite new to RA4 printing, but am experiencing with pre flashing and soft filtering the images.

I'm a huge fan of Quentin De Briey work, and I know he shoot film most of the time. (Here is his Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/quentindebriey/

Or maybe he uses 85B filter on a daylight balanced film? Or any other trick, or simply the digital editing...?

I really want to achieve some kind of this yellowish/grainy look with the film.

I did try RA4 printing with 110 format, it did give the grainy look, but still is different...

Looking forward to your experiences and examples and suggestions

koraks · Oct 21, 2021

Looks like part of the time he's using instax. Otherwise I see nothing very extraordinary; the color shots don't look all that grainy to me and in terms of color balancing it's all skewed quite far towards yellow with a generous dash of magenta as well. He seems to prefer late afternoon/early evening light as well; warm and soft.

Petr Polyakov said:
Or any other trick, or simply the digital editing...?

I don't see tricks really. He just has a preference for certain compositional styles and scenes. Digital stuff? Undoubtedly, yes. But it's not a requirement to make the kind of thing he shows.

DREW WILEY · Oct 26, 2021

Hard to say. But lots of amateur color neg films, or even some of the older professional ones, could produce an exaggerated orangish or pumpkin effect with Caucasian skin tones, in combination of cyanish off-greens. It was the characteristic signature of older Vericolor portrait films, for example. Warm evening light would exaggerate it even more. A warming filter wasn't necessarily involved, but could have been. A neodymium enhancing filter would do it under normal lighting. Printing that kind of thing RA4 is easy if that is the kind of color balance in the original shot itself.

Petr Polyakov · Nov 3, 2021

DREW WILEY said:
Hard to say. But lots of amateur color neg films, or even some of the older professional ones, could produce an exaggerated orangish or pumpkin effect with Caucasian skin tones, in combination of cyanish off-greens. It was the characteristic signature of older Vericolor portrait films, for example. Warm evening light would exaggerate it even more. A warming filter wasn't necessarily involved, but could have been. A neodymium enhancing filter would do it under normal lighting. Printing that kind of thing RA4 is easy if that is the kind of color balance in the original shot itself.

Hi! Thank you for your feedback. Really appreciate it. Was trying to get some information about the neodymium filters, but so little on the internet, especially during the daylight shooting. But will try to do some more research.

Is it possible to achieve this look with RA4?

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