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sdw

my long, unbroken obsession with taking moody iPhone snaps in airports

38 comments
Jonathan Nicholson

@sdw@mastodon.social I love the colors on these! Did you use Darkroom for these?

Simon Harper

@sdw lovely snaps Seb. You have a grading recipe you’d like to share?

sdw

@simonharper these ones are old native RAW which I doubt is worth the writeup today. But I do love their look

Simon Harper

@sdw They do look great agreed. Would still love you to do a grading vid/tutorial one day.

Mark James Adams

@sdw @simonharper I vastly prefer the grain of a normal RAW (though a smidge of color noise reduction is still needed) to what ProRAW produces in low-light settings.

In good lighting, though, the extra degree of freedom from manipulating the Profile strength in ProRAW is a nice feature.

Gui Neto

@sdw can you explain how to add grain to photos taken from iPhone?

sdw

@guicane I don't, these were shot in native RAW which is pretty grainy.

Gui Neto

@sdw sure but I meant if I want to achieve that the phone will the to use night mode, I will turn it off and then it’ll become a dark mess, so I just bring up the exposure?

Penguin

@sdw A part of travel I don’t miss: waiting in airports. Except in Shanghai & Tokyo when I needed 30 minutes to find a souvenir coffee cup 🙂 And how did you get a photo from the 1960’s TWA Terminal (in JFK?) with a Lockheed Constellation, my favorite airplane to fly as a child?

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅

@PenguinToot @sdw The TWA terminal 5 at JFK was converted and rebuilt into a hotel as “TWA Hotel” with a Consti in front and a lot of attention to the detail including a working flip board, restored with the help of the French company, which built it in the 60s for TWA.

Penguin

@canleaf @sdw Wow amazing. Must see that the next time I’m at JFK 🙂

Elías Chao

@sdw I would love to see a write up of you explaining your process of taking and editing photos.

Every photo you post look sick, but I have no idea how to get at least similar results.

Michael Edlund

@sdw LOVE the TWA hotel at JFK. Kind of expect to run in to a young Roger Moore or Peter Sellers at the bar.

DELETED

@sdw omg those are beutiful, can I use the first one as my desktop wallpaper?

Lumi Kløvstad

@sdw The second and third have this lovely vintage air to them, like glimpses into another slice of time.

hrx

@lumiklovstad @sdw True - the third picture looks like it's taken out of a glossy paper magazine TWA ad from the 60's.

Leroy

@sdw love all these shots! There is something so melancholy and otherworldly about airports, I love them

LN

@sdw wanna share how you make this? Which adjustments you apply to make them look like this? 😁

James

@sdw Fantastic! Which airport is the third one?! Looks like you’ve gone back in time!

ElektroBento

@sdw amazing. I really have a habit of shooting monochrome pics with my iPhone during summer if the light is really harsh and creates super contrast.

sdw

1. CDG, Paris, France - ✈ AMS - CDG - TUN
2. CDG, Paris, France - ✈ CDG - HKG
3. TWA Hotel, JFK, New York, USA - ✈ JFK - SFO
4. OSL, Oslo, Norway - ✈ OSL - AMS

All shot in beautiful iPhone native RAW with @halide for that natural grain and crisp detail.

WeeWoo

@sdw @halide is that native raw as opposed to proraw?

Pixel Doge

@sdw cool pictures! Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal definitely lends itself to be photographed :blobhearteyes:

Nino Kadic

@sdw Sort of like the 'liminal space' aesthetic. Great photos!

TK_UK

@sdw @Gargron What/where is the “1962” image from? Share more …. !! Love this.

lorano

@sdw those snaps kills, well done ! It's kinda sad that all of them are in portrait but i guess it only makes my new desktop image more special haha

Sebbe

@sdw oh the itch to reorganize those cauches in shot 2. Hehe.

Tom Farmer

@sdw Was anyone patronizing the TWA Hotel? It’s a magnificent rehab with eye-popping prices and IME chronic service issues.

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