Old photo look

[sparkie1263]

Here is another edit of the yellow truck. I tried to give it that old photo look.


Frank

Before




After

[Hedges]

Very good, like it

[sparkie1263]

Thanks

Frank

[Honest Gaza]

Perhaps better in B&W or Sepia to get the "old photo" look ?

(Oops...just checked your Flickr link...you've been there done that )

[Peekayoh]

Nice old car Frank but "Old Photo" look means OLD.
Kick out the colour, get some grain in, crop the unnecessary and clone out the crap.
Be ruthless Frank, I know you old "Sparks" can smoke it.


BTW. I'm back.

[DWessel]

I think I know the look Frank was going for with the muted colors. Early color photography. It fits with the time period of the truck.

Check out this World War I color photo. http://askthephotographer.com/wp-con...008/04/wwi.jpg

I would agree though that the majority of people react to the brownish and red-brown tones of sepia, palladium, platinum and the purpleish tone of selenium as being "OLD." Pure B&W gets close to evoking the feeling of old, but I think B&W tends to have a timeless quality to it unless the subject itself is old.

[DWessel]

Here's a 3 shot 2EV HDR converted to a Palladium tone.


A900 w/Sigma 28-90 @ 35mm, f6.3, ISO 100, +2,0,-2EV
Modified grunge effect, PS converstion to Palladium.

Of course, to make this image older looking, I would have to also clone out the graffiti.

[Peekayoh]

I don't disagree Darren. I was as much looking at the lack of grain and the cropping and cloning aspect.

[DWessel]

I'm interested in everyone's thoughts impressions on these images. I use "images" because these were shot for HDR, merged using a modified setting of PhotoMatix's "Grunge" effect. In the first two sets, I further modified the original color version into a mono toned version.




(This one has a split toned effect applied)

[Peekayoh]

Darin, I guess I'm too conventional to make a useful contribution.