Creating the negative sheet

I start off by selecting an image and process it, to give it the image a certain look similar to what it would be like on an old disposable camera or an old film point and shoot. I did this by essentially turning the contrast down and bringing the highlights down and the shadows up in the raw processing window.





What I did then was add a noise filter to simulate film grain that you see on the old images.

I then duplicated the layer onto the correct document

I then resized the image to the traditional 35mm format (as close as I could) I did this so when the final image prints at a3 size the negatives should be the same size as standard 35mm format.

I then adjusted the image so it would fit into the 35mm template.

For the non raw images I took I used levels to create a similar effect as in the raw processing.

With some of the images, due to the wide end of the lens creating some distortion on the image (a slight fisheye effect at 16mm) I used a lens correction tool in photoshop when shooting architecture so it was more accurate as to what the building was actually like.

With some of the images shot at 16mm where I feel there wasn't too noticeable of distortion I didn't use a lens correction tool but there was quite a big vignetting effect. So here I cropped into the image and also rotated slightly as the image wasn't totally horizontal.

Just to experiment with an otherwise quite a boring image I decided to overlay one of my previous images, it's just an image of traffic hugely out of focus to capture these light spheres. I overlaid this and used the 'screen' layer style and turned the opacity to about 30%







Overall I think this went quite well, and I really like the outcome of the entire piece and does have a classic, vintage style. I haven't gone as far as inverting the images to make it look like actual film because then the images would loose huge amounts of quality and would be quite difficult to decipher what they are (being only 35mm big when printed) I am also thinking of doing a small a5 booklet of all the images.