In April 2019, I published an essay entitled I Reject the Tyranny of Precision, in which I described 1) an encounter with filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroid images (1); 2) the Instax Wide experimentation that followed; and 3) my attempts at emulating instant photography, through post-processing.
EXP 77 is the result of this work.
The set includes 11 individual looks, available as both presets and profiles:
BLACK-01 - Soft, high contrast black and white.
GOLDB-01 - Blue shadows and grain.
GOLDB-02 - Purple shadows and sharper structure.
GOLDB-03 - Warm monochrome with positive vignetting.
TARK-01 - Soft and slightly pink.
TARK-02 - Soft with aquatic greens.
TARK-03 - Soft with deeply saturated tones.
TARK-04 - Soft, yellow, green and purple.
TARK-05 - Soft and earthy.
TARK-06 - Yellow mids and highlights.
TARK-07 - Orange and highly saturated.
All presets and profiles can be used on JPEG or raw files.