6 Ways to Make Your Photos Look like You’re in the 1990s
If you haven’t noticed, 90s fashion is back. This is fine with me because I don’t know why we all were wearing such low-rise jeans in 2004.
Here are some tips to make your photography look like it’s not 2021 because no one actually wants to be here in this decade.
Flash. It’s in your face, it’s really yellow, it’s bright, it’s in your face, everything looks kind of shiny.
Film grain. Use just a little bit, not too much, because you don’t want it to look like it’s 1950. Just a little bit just to take away the digital edge that iPhones and digital cameras have these days.
Bright, intense, primary colors (red, blue, yellow).
Landscape orientation. This is kind of arbitrary, but it feels like people forget they could turn the camera vertically.
Don’t try to be perfect. Film was getting cheaper and disposable cameras were becoming the norm. You didn’t need to be perfect in every photo. You know that half the people in a candid photo looked silly and had one eye closed.
Fashion. Lucky for us the 90s are back. Go to any thrift store, or even new stuff online, it probably will have a 90s vibe. So, we’re thinking bright colors, oversized everything: oversized flannels oversized shirts oversized pants, side hair (with a scrunchie, of course), chunky sneakers with big chunky socks, leather belts with big buckles, high-waisted mom jeans, and a nice dark burgundy red lipstick.
I mean, we had giant cell phones and there was no Facebook. What a time to be alive.
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