Digging through the old family album looking for a photo to replicate, I was amazed by the interesting photos that I found, especially the “bad” and ambiguous ones taken by my siblings and I when we were young and were just messing around with the compact camera.

The first photo I attempted was taken in my room back in Shanghai by my sibling. I tried to imitate the blurry image with slow shuttle speed and a window light shining from the right side of the picture.

I managed to achieve the blurry image with a shuttle speed of 1s (and a small aperture to avoid overexposure). I didn’t manage to get the fall off on the wall in the background, perhaps due to the distance between the wall and the light source.

 

 

The second photo was me in relative’s house in Taiwan, the strong backlight makes it a horrible picture, my facial feature is barely visible. I wanted to try imitate the strong backlight,

 

I was using the noon/afternoon window light, however, it was still not strong enough to get the overexposed effect I want(or rather the interior was not dark enough). I had to increase the contrast in photoshop in order to get the contrasting image(of the overexposed exterior and dark interior)

 

The last one was a picture of my brother when he was younger. It was shot from a lower angle, in a dimly lit room with a flash.

I am quite happy with the result, however as Elke mentioned, I missed a light source from the left side of the picture that casted a faint shadow on the wall in the original photo,