Anyone knows the name of this specific editing style? Photo from Shortstache from Instagram

Posted Mar 8, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC

Posted Mar 8, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC
In all honesty, it's not hard to reproduce. I have some of his Lightroom presets. They are nothing fancy. The biggest take from these edits is the soft blacks. You'll notice they are dark grey. This instantly gives you a more cinematic look. If you use Lightroom raise your low end shadows in point curve to around 90%. You'll also notice this guy loves destroying clean shots with grain to make it look more vintage. So add some grain. Desaturate colours. Greens to yellow in colour mixer. It's just a take on orange/teal with less bright teal and deeper blue.
it is called “everyones instagram last three years”
Some muted orange and teal (the teal is quite desaturated and might lean towards more blue than usual) + the black point is lifted to have dark grey instead of pure black.
While this is obviously desaturated a bit, and more teal and orange, he sells his actions/presets for this look. There's a link in his bio. He does a lot more than just make it teal and orange, so maybe worth checking out if you want to get it exactly.
It's also not difficult to find on google.
Brown
Just kidding I don’t know, that’s just all I see looking at this. I totally get the appeal though! My guess would be to add a dark orange/brownish tint to the shadows and drop your whites down a bit. Or a low opacity just brown color over the whole top of an image would give a slightly brown tint and would knock highlights down for more of this look. Also maybe add grain? Maybe?
Edit to add- also I think lower saturation on yellows
Adding even more- I commented before reading other comments and there’s some good advice in there. Personally I think everyone should save their money and not buy presets. If you have an afternoon to kill, go through all of your possible adjustments in Lightroom and see how it changes your image and fiddle with things until it looks close to how you want it to look. It’s a slower method than being told or buying a preset, but it will help you actually understand what everything does so you’re able to replicate styles by looking at them
When I got hold of with his presets I hated it. They only work some specific type of photography and conditions that clearly aren't mine :)
As 90% of the presets.
Thats why I never buy presets.
Add a bit of grain, make sure subject is soft lit, so highlights still got color. Fade blacks a little, lower brightness of yellows and orange. Move colors red and yellow more towed orange. Probably doing some color gradients as well mixing with the blending and what not. Probably some YouTube videos you can find mimicking his style.
It's just made to look more filmic. Probably orange in the highlights and lots of grain added. A Canon G7 Mk II can do stuff like this without a lot of editing in Lightroom. But really, many filters can get you results similar to this if you know how to take a proper shot to begin with. The white balance is important.
Selling shortstache RGB Lightroom presets 2023 £50
im sure you could get close to this or this exact look with VSCO presets.
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Please take your feet off where someone else will eventually sit.Very now, but very indulgent and selfish.
I don’t think there is a name for a specific editing style in general, let alone for his. He is a master of his craft and understands both his camera and editing software well. As others have mentioned, he sells his rbgpack, which might help imitate his look. I haven’t purchased his presets, but I imagine he does more than just mess with hues/saturation/luminance.
I remember him explaining that he manually sets the white balance temp for all his work. I imagine he does quite a few other things, including careful subject selection, to achieve his look.