Corbijn - How; again

[rashid_janjua]

Hi Folks,

 

There was a posting about a year and a half ago on how to get grainy pictures like those by Anton Corbijn.

I have tried a few options and none have really given any "good" results. Has anyone tried these out and

what have been your experiences? Does anyone have any other suggestions? I have recently purchased

Adobe Lightroom: has anyone tried it out to accomplish Corbijn-esque results.

 

Cheers

[michael_mcblane]

I believe you'll find that his style was done by a traditionaly darkroom technique call "lith printing". I have played with this technique a few years ago and it's pretty labor intensive.

 

Tim Rudman who is an authority on print toning and other techniques has written a few books on the subject.

 

Here is one link:

 

http://www.worldoflithprinting.com/

[william_john_smith1]

Corbijn doesn't use lith, he over exposes and over develops his film and prints on hard

paper. It is a look that was very poplar in the 1970's. The best way to do it is to use film, Tri-

X and Rodinal.

[joey_grob]

I agree with Micheal and William the answer is to use film...i have a few nikon digital slrs and great dx lenses but there is no way to replicate film......so often people show an ansel adams print and say, i'm having trouble doing this with my d70...try carrying a backpack full of glass up a mountain.....and standing in total darkness with poisonous chemicals in order to see each frame....

joey

ps/ i'm 29 (not a 99 yr old film nut)

[steve george]

Yep, agreed that film and darkroom skill is the secret.<br><br>I'm sure I read him in an interview somewhere saying about the art team of a magazine spending a week trying to replicate in Photoshop what had taken him an hour to do in the darkroom and having been unable to do so - as a result he gets special dispensation to use film and do his own darkroom prints for magazine work.<br><br>

 

Can't find reference to that (so may have crossed my wires), though this interview is an interesting chat about his tools of choice:<br><br>

 

<a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1448110,00.html" target="_blank">http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1448110,00.html</a><br><br>

[patricklavoie]

You can also use CS easily. Use a curve to block the shadow, add a little dirtyness on your white, add small amount of majenta on the white (if you like the effect you post) Add a layer in overlay fill with 50%gray then apply some monochromatic noise in gaussian distribution. Use the transform command and enlarge your noise by 25%. Use median to blur it a bit, like a setting of 1. voila.

[michael_mcblane]

I googled this:

 

Not sure if that is what you're referring to

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00GAU1

[michael_mcblane]

Some of Corbijn work WAS lith. Here are a few examples of lith and other users of it.

 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sepia/discuss/64469/

 

http://www.photosig.com/go/photos/browse?id=24349