This Video Shows You How to Take Photos That Look Like Wes Anderson Movie Shots

For those who enjoy the style of director Wes Anderson films and want to incorporate that style into your own photos, here’s a video from Imitative Photography that explains the process of fully capturing Anderson’s aesthetic. There are a variety of specific techniques that involve location, proportion, props, lighting, focal length, symmetry, and color saturation.

It’s hard to find a director with a more distinct visual style than Wes Anderson. In this video we’re going to learn how to recreate it photographically. …What are the elements of Wes Anderson’s visual style that make him so recognizable?

There’s a whole photographic community based on this photography style, and the video describes how “Accidentally Wes Anderson” came about:

It’s an Instagram page started in 2017 by Brooklyn-based couple Wally and Amanda Koval. They came across a similarly named subreddit of photos of real places that looked like they had been plucked from Wes Anderson’s films. They then started their instagram account as a sort of travel bucket list of places they wanted to explore.

Check out the video below and go out and start taking Wes Anderson-style photos!