How to take Hamada-style photos with iphone?

Hideaki Hamada, a representative of Japanese family photographer and a small fresh photographer, loves Pentax 6 7II, a 67-piece SLR camera, and often uses Kodak Portra 400NC and 160NC films. His masterpieces include Haru and Mina, which recorded the daily life of his two sons. There is also a long-term photography project "One Day", which records the daily life of a family and their dog.

Of course, it is difficult to use the iPhone camera directly. No matter the image quality, color contrast and exposure, it can't achieve this effect, even digital SLR. Therefore, to take this style of photos, you need to use some retouching software. Here we recommend three iOS retouching softwares, namely VSCO, Snapseed and InstaSize.

First, you need an iPhone, and then download the VSCO application. The application has several free filters built in. If you want to get more filters, you must go to its filter store to buy them, or you can add filters through other channels. When everything is ready, we will start shooting.

When shooting, it is best to choose sunny days. At this time, blue sky and white clouds, flowers, mangroves and green trees, and sufficient light flood into the iPhone camera. In addition to a good environment, you have to have good photography skills, which involves unfathomable things such as composition and artistic techniques. However, some simple techniques can quickly help you improve the artistic character of taking pictures. For example, you can open the grid in the camera and try to put the subject in a third of the grid. This method is also the legendary golden section composition method.

At this time, you can get a photo with balanced colors, but to realize the style of Hideaki Hamada, you need to color it with VSCO. Using group C and group E filters can increase the contrast and saturation of photos and simulate the style of film, while the E 1 filter is used more frequently. When E 1 filter is selected, it defaults to 12 filter. But in order to avoid too many filters, it is usually enough to choose 6- 10. Then switch to the color matching function. The basic steps are exposure, contrast, clarity, saturation, highlight dimming and graininess. Of course, you can adjust the details according to your photos.