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Warning: My box of 90s star trail prints is giving me a serious case of astro-nostalgia.
I pulled out my old binders of chemically developed star field photos, and the soft glow and occasional light leaks have a warmth that my perfectly stacked digital composites just don't capture. Has anyone found a good way to incorporate some of that analog charm into their current processing workflow?
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val8335h ago
Those 90s light leaks are just technical errors, not charm.
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kelly_west4549m ago
What about the happy accidents that redefine a style? Sure they started as flaws, but so did film grain and vinyl crackle. The value isn't in the original mistake, it's in how a generation borrowed that look to signal a specific warmth and nostalgia. Technical perfection is one goal, but the character of an era often comes from its imperfections. Calling them just errors misses how they've been deliberately reclaimed as an aesthetic language.
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