Turn Your iPhone into a Film Camera with Adobe Lightroom

1. Introduction: You know that you can take some of the best film photographs with your phone? Welcome to turn your iPhone into a film camera. So this course, we are going to be talking about film photography, and I'm going to be showing you my approach to creating film like photos with my phone. Now, this course is for anyone, which is why we won't be going deep into the topic of film or focusing on the art of creating these photos because it is so simple and exciting. I'm Ab Camoi a photographer and filmmaker who's been shooting for ten years now. I'm a Skillshare top teacher and adobe rising star and ambassador. I've been shooting with my phone for a couple of years now, and I've enjoyed the process. Shooting with the phone makes things a lot easier in cases and scenarios where you can't bring out a bulky camera setup. In my photography, I like to stand out. I like to do things that are different, and I like to think outside the box. Film photography is much like my operative photography, which is it's different. It offers a new perspective into photography and the way you view things. The grains, the halation, the dust and scratches makes things look beautiful. And we're going to be learning how to create those beautiful photos. At the end of this class, you'll be able to create film like photos just with your phone, edit them, and post them from a beautiful portfolio of film photography. Yeah, I know you're excited already and excited, too. So let's get started. 2. Class orientation: Hi, guys. Welcome to class orientation. In this course, you'll just be needing a phone and the tram application. Optional accessories include tripods or phone lenses, et cetera, but you would just be majorly needing a phone and the tram application. Some other applications you can use to edit are VACO and RNI films. But for this course, we will be using Adobe tr. Showing you how I shoot film photos, edit film photos, and even make up my film effects. We will also create a film portfolio on Be hands, which demonstrates how you can use your film photographs to actually build a professional portfolio. Your class projects will be to shoot and create film photographs using your phone. Be sure to share your projects. I'd love to see them. Let's get started. 3. Understanding film aesthetics: Guys, welcome to Understanding film aesthetics. For this lesson, I'll be making a list of things I would love to see in my photos if I'm taking film photographs. I think this is what you should do, as it helps you draw inspiration from the photos you categorize as film and recreate them effortlessly. With this list, I'll be teaching you how to use these elements to make my photos look like film. Here's my list, grain, dust and scratches, halation and bleeding effect. For me, one of the major characteristics of film photographs is grain. And that's how I envision my photos to be when creating film photos. I want to have grain in them. Dust and scratches. That's another additional characteristics or thing or component of film photographs. Not all of them have it, but it's a plus when creating film photos, and it's very easy to make Halation and bleeding effect. So rather than explain halation, I will show youhlation. So take a look at this frame right here. This is without halation. And this is with halation. As you can see, there's a subtle bleeding effect on the overexposed bits of the frame. This is going to be happening with your photos, and that's the halation and bleeding effect. So, for instance, this is a photo without it, and this is a photo with it. Film artifacts and how to create them, dust and scratches. This is how to create dust and scratches by yourself, so you don't have to go online to search for templates and PNGs. Take photos of subtle textures like paper or fabric, adjust the contrast, then overlay them onto your images. I the next effect is creating light lik and here's how I do it. I set my camera to a very low shutter speed, and then I just wave a torchlight or a lead light at the camera and capture. So you get a couple of, like, light streaks and everything, and then you carry these images and overlay them again to your photos. When applying this effect, being subtle is key. Real film artifacts are not usually overwhelming. They add character without dominating the image. The goal is to enhance the vintage film without making it look like a heavy handed filter. Morning. So now that we've learned how to add some effects that make your photos feel like film, let's go to camera techniques and things that we do on set when shooting film photos. 4. Let's shoot: Hi. Today, I'll be showing you how a set looks when creating film photos. I've shot numerous models and friends using my phone with the aim of shooting film photos. It's always fun, weird and experimental, but in the end, the results pay off. I go from shooting backlit photos to adding my own artificial lights to make the subjects pop. Different scenarios and environments offer different opportunities to be experimental with your film photos. Don't be scared of trying out new angles and composition techniques for your film like photos. Go out, experiment and have fun while shooting photos. That's the main thing you're having fun because what's it if you're not having fun? If you're not able to go out and shoot, I've provided some sample photos that you can follow along with and edit with us. Have fun shooting, and I can't wait to see you in the next class where we talk about editing. 5. Editing: Hi, guys. Today we're talking about editing. We will be adding green, light lakes, and other film characteristics. We'll also be doing basic color correction to make your photos look like film. Let's go. So first things first, we have a Adobe lightroom here. And for those who have watched a few of my uses, you know how I like to edit. Um, I always encourage people to go through every single thing 'cause you never know what you might find that is unique to you. So the first thing we're going to do is just try to adjust this a little bit. And we're going to lift the shadows and the whites and also the blacks. Next, we're going to reduce our clarity just a little bit. As you know it film cameras aren't, like, perfect. So you tend to have, like, a few out of focus, like, places. And reducing our party just helps us get that imperfection in there. And then we're just going to just bump up our texture just a little bit. Next thing is we're going to play around with our curves, and it's just going to be a simple curve. So we just got this. And then we're just going to crush the blocks tight. Okay, perfect. Next thing is we're also just going to play around with this. We make three points and then just drop this down a little bit. Do the same thing for our greens. And the same thing for our blues. After that, we're going to check out our color grading tab here, and this is why I like to just make things a little bit spicy or cinematic. So I add, like, a few things to my shadows, highlights, and, like, me toned, and I just go with what I feel like that in that moment. The next thing for me is just scrolling. I don't think I want to do any extra like sharpening. I'll just use this blending to see if there are any changes or significant changes. And yeah, I think that. The next thing here is our green. And you always want to just bump that up. I think I'll just take it up to 60 and then increase my reference just a little bit as well and my size. Yeah, I think this is perfect for me. There you go. So that's about it, just for, like, the basic color correction and just like getting it like set for work. You can now come back here and now adjust, like this a little bit to suit the mood. I'm having some really bright edges around here, and I think I want to adjust that. So I'll just go to my mask, and I think I'll pick radio gradient and I'll just, like, play around with this. Let me see how it looks. What I want to do here now is I want to add some dehaze. Yeah, something like that. I think feels perfect. And I think one thing I want to just add just for the fun of it, as well, is just to make it dramatic, I will add a masker making this a little bit duger. And that's about it for this image, really. This is the before and this is the after. So the first thing I want to do when it comes to editing portrait test, I will adjust my crop. I like the skyline, so I'm just going to leave that in there. I'm going to adjust her legs. And then the next thing I'm going to do is just bump up my shadows. White, not so much, but a little bit and then my blacks. I think I can bring down the shadows now slightly. This is good. From there, we're just going to adjust a little bit of the clarity. I just a little texture. Next, I'm just going to come here and play around with my hues. Think I will make the aquas in this image more blue. And then this one, I think I'll make it a little bit. The next thing, of course, remember, just max this out, and then you can adjust as you're going. So let's just move this around and see what we like. This looks good. And then we move this around and see what we like. This also looks good. Then let's see somewhere between here, actually. Let's see. Okay, so we bring this down just a little bit, and we also bring this down with this down a lot. And then for this, let's see, we bring it down just a little bit and make it yellow. So this is where the please. Okay. The next thing we're going to do is our grain. I'm just going to come over here and then bring in the mystery. So this is it's, like, my style. So that's why I enjoy bringing it in. Then I try to remove the subject from it because I don't want her dress to be off. Adjust this and then pull this down slightly. The next thing I want to do is, I want to make advantage of the beautiful light coming from the sunset. So I'm just going to go here, increase this a little bit, and also play around my Dehaze, like that. This is beautiful. I love how it looks already. Going to stretch this slightly. And then that's beautiful. I think I'll just adjust the crop and a bit more. So this is your before and this is your after. I have something for to do with this image. So I think I should do that before I start adjusting many things. I'm just going to add a mask behind her, something like this. Going to get her out of the frame. And then I'm just going to do this, increase my exposure slightly, increase my plaques, as well. Something like this. This is good. And then we're just going to now make our adjustments here. Going to increase our shadows, whites again and blacks. I think we can decrease the exposure slightly as well. This is good. And next, we're going to reduce our clarity. I think for me, I'm just going to, in general, reduce the dehaze and then add some texture. The next thing is we're going to use curves for this one because we really want to get some of those blocks back in. And this looks good. Yeah, this looks good. I don't think I'm going to do much on the color mixer. I'm just going to head right up here and see what works. This looks good. This looks like a film. Then we're just going to add some of the ws back in the frame. And let's see what works for us. Highlight ones. This is good. So I'm just going to reduce it here. Slighting. Think that's good as well. And this is This is nice. Perfect. I like how it looks. I love how it looks. Now, the next thing we're going to do is green, of course. Going to make this 60. We're just going to do this a little bit, and then that's beautiful. What I want to do now is something very spectacular. I want to just select a sweater to make it, like, pop and need to be saturated. So we're just going to drag this across. Perfect. And then we're just going to add some saturation to it. We're also going to play around with our hue tab just to see how we can make the green pop slightly. That's perfect. It's perfect. I love it. Now our mystery, as usual, going to drag this along here and select our subject out of it. And then we're just going to make this dark slightly. Perfect. And that's it for this image. You can see the before and you can see the after. I love it. Now that you've learned how to edit and make your photos look like film, I can't wait to see a project. Go out, practice and shoot some more. I'll see you in the next class where we talk about building your film photography portfolio. 6. Creating a portfolio: Hi there. So today, we're going to be creating a film portfolio using B hands. This is my B hands portfolio, and these are projects that I've found. It's a beautiful place to put your pictures and share your works with people. So we're going to go to this tab called Share Your Walk, and we're going to create a project. For this course, I'll be showing you how to create a project. The tools I use on B hands and how to make it look aesthetic. The first thing I normally do is put a bold text. And then I try to center my text. To change your background color, you just simply click on Styles and you can see I can easily adjust it however I want. So I'm going to go back here and I'm going to try and make my text a little bit bolder and also make it black. Next thing I do is I like to put a single going to go here and I'm going to click on this. So I'm just going to put the text, and I'm going to type Now, the next thing I want to do is I like to add a grid shortly after the image. So in this grid, I can just give some extra information. After that, you can choose to either have a write up where you can say So after this, I either put a single photo or I go all out with a grid. I think I actually want to go with a grid because I have some aesthetic looking photos that I want to put in a grid. And it's creating that right here. We're just going to delete this tile, and this is how you delete it. After that, I'm going to give a single image that I've already graded in Photoshop. So just to give it like drama. Now, you can click this to give your grade some breathing room. So if you want your photos to look like this, you can do that, and you can do this. So we're just going to do this for him. And then you can choose to reorder the positions by going here and then just dragging it across to where you want it to be. If you have a song that is related to the photos or the session that you had, you can easily just copy the embedded link and paste it on here. And he adds that. So people can click on it while viewing your photos. Very interesting, very lovely because there are so many times you just want to have, like, music playing in the background, and then you can just have this playing. That's beautiful. I would encourage you to use platform. I would encourage you to use platforms like Behind Instagram, Twitter, Facebook to create your portfolio, but especially Bhant. Once you're done, you can either save your draft or continue. I choose to continue. And then here you can see where you can edit your cover image, pick what you want, and I'm going to pick this, and then you can give it a title. And then you can add a few tags related to what you're doing. And you see them. You see photography, they give some recommended tags as well. And then you can click everyone or private. I think I'm just going to stick to private. And then, um, there you go. It's as simple as that. You publish a project. And this is our final project right here on Bands. I encourage you to try it out and create a portfolio using your photos with Bee hunt. I'll see you in the next class. 7. Conclusion: Hi, there. Congratulations on rolling up this course. Mm. Oh Now that we've learned how to create film photos with your phone, I can't wait for you to go out there, experiment and have fun. Try out new angles, try out new composition techniques. Feel free to play around with your editing style as well, and just have fun with it. Bring out your phone in certain conditions and places and shoot away, capture every moment as it comes. If you haven't uploaded your project by now, I'd still love to see it and give you positive feedback. You can check out my other courses where I teach on shooting portraits with an iPhone and creating marvelous stunning portraits. I can't wait to see you again. But for now, bye.