How is this done?

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http://morganmaassen.com/files/gimgs/39_morganmaassen35mm5.jpg
http://morganmaassen.com/files/gimgs/39_morganmaassen35mm3.jpg
http://morganmaassen.com/files/gimgs/39_morganmaassen35mm19.jpg
http://morganmaassen.com/files/gimgs/39_morganmaassen35mm9.jpg
http://morganmaassen.com/files/gimgs/39_morganmaassen35mm26.jpg

They are all from the 35mm series by Morgan Maassen: http://morganmaassen.com
There is something about the film that adds this amazing quality to these photos, through visual artefacts or I don't know what. I'm hoping for some insight into how this is done, like what kind of equipment is being used, what techniques etc.

Grateful for any help :)
 
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I should add that I am completely new to film photography, having only shot with digital so far. I know next to nothing about it so could probably use some babysitting through the terms if anyone is willing!
Thanks for the reply Liam.
 
Number 1 looks as thought it was just shot into the sun and taken with some cheap film to get the surreal colours.

Number 2 looks like a light like, it might have been the first image on the roll.

3/4/5 just look like cheap film, with number 5 shot into the sun. If you want to get similar effects buy some cheap poundland film or out of date film from the ebay.
 
Hi Adam, welcome to Film and Conventional.

As above the shots look like they're the result of poor quality film, badly treated, and resulting shots are to be considered "happy accidents."

Incidentally, unless images are your own copyright, you shouldn't actually post the image, but should provide a link to them. You may find that the shots get broken to links by "da management"

For more information on how to get these accidental effects, I suggest you google "lomography" and have a bit of a read... there really are lots of different ways of getting these effects - most of us filmies have had similar results - though we typically call them mistakes!
 
It's hard to tell really as you don't know how much has been done in post.

If I wanted to make pictures like these I would choose an old lens with either no coating or just a single coating to achieve the flare and low contrast in most of the pics. The vignette you can add in post, or add a step down ring.

They are all very warm as well, so either a warm balanced film or stick a warm-up filter on there, which would also help with the vignette.

The light leaks and streaks are just artefacts of a broken camera (possibly intentional) and poor processing (got to be fluke, you can't control streaks that well)

as TBY says above, it's an inexact process but it does give very nice results, and has the benefit of being very cheap to achieve :D
 
erm Artistic licence ;) I've had shots like that over the years and threw them away.
 
Ah I see there is mixed opinion on the quality of these photos! :p different strokes I guess.
Thanks everyone for the replies, just a result of experimentation then. I will be mucking about with out of date film then!
 
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