Eldritch Candid Photography

Candid film photography

Simulating analog photography with an emphasis on film grain (doesn't translate perfectly to this website, see the nota bene below) and flattened highlights/shadows. I now have two versions, one that leans to more retro 1960s-1980s coloring and a second with much less bias in subject matter and coloring, but both lend your outputs a very pleasant analog film feel.

NB: posted images to this site crushes the appearance of film grain quite a bit. This holds for offline-generated images or online generated images. In both, the appearance of film grain is really solid, but once posted, they get heavily processed and flattened.

My preference is for use with the base SDXL. Some fine tunes overwhelm the subtle texture and color influence of the LoRA. But if you find one that you can recommend, please share your experience with me! I don't do extensive testing across many fine tuned models.

Keywords are not usually necessary, but to ensure some stronger influence of the LoRA try any of the following:

• found footage

• analog film noise

• grainy photograph

• light distortions

• lens flare

• grunge frame (does not really work with the unbiased LoRA and only sometimes with the retro LoRA)