How does petra collins edit her photos?

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I would love to figure out how she creates her images. I understand it’s the lighting to a certain extent. But there’s often this cool haze and it also looks like the colors are bleeding, and like the highlights are blown out, which i feel has to be the editing. Can it be just using fill layers with different blendingmodes and tinkering with the color channels. If so, HOW more specifically? what other adjustments do you think she makes?

im very clueless as to how she goes about to achieve this hazy but still intense and sharp and colorful effect.

here are some more examples:

gener7 · Accepted Answer

Classic definition of a blank stare, Trevor.

To answer the question: She doesn't use Photoshop. She uses 35 mm film exclusively and does not retouch.

The information comes from this article and explains why others have been going back to traditional film.

Have We Reached Peak Digital Photography?

Trevor.Dennis · Answer

Those are artful images indeed, but I prefer this amazing triplet. It has a wonderful sense of open space, and the flow from one canvas to the next, is breathtaking. It has an adolescent 'cow eating grass' quality that is pure innocence, and the brushwork is beyond subtle. I have agonised for hours on whether the predominant colour in these inspirational art works is Mountain Snow Fall, or a masterful shade of fully desaturated terracotta?

Modern "art" comp. - It's just god damn ridiculous. Pretentious retards looking at "art" made by money sniffin jews... I screwed up a piece of paper and left it on an empty pedestal in the artroom in my college. It sat there for 3 weeks before it was removed

I have just realised that in the time it took to type this, the young gentleman is so transfixed by these paintings, that he has barely moved.

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