May 2009 Photography Assignment - Nostalgia

[Ray]

ttv of an old house

[Siejones]

Siejones: Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it.
I can assure you that this is NOT scanned from film. I haven't used a film camera in over 10 years. It is in fact a digital photo from start to finish. The end result took me about 10 mins in Photoshop using toning resembling old news print, and Layers with Overlay as the blending mode and 40% opacity. The only thing I didn't do here was add a gradiant, but I did darken the edges of the photo to get that "old fashioned photo" look. For this particular shot, both the location and lighting are worth more than the processing. Oh yeah, and having a model helps! :-)

Oh yeah I don't take anything away from the tehnical, lighting and good composition of the original. The shot was great as it was I am sure but the old film look suited it superbly and it's that look I find myself more and more attracted to these days. I am a mostly a landscape photographer and I would like to achieve this same look on a landscape image. I have seen it done before but rarely well. The ones that did work though were breathtaking.

Thanks for helping

[Iguanasan]

...I was also wondering what others thought of a bit more discussion about the assignments either at the end of the month or during the month about how images meet the assignment ?? Portrait was obviously a bit difficult to do this.

First off, wow, you skip a couple of days and you miss a lot here! Hard to keep up!

I'd like to know Antz what you mean here. I obviously missed something. Would you mind elaborating?

[AntZ]

First off, wow, you skip a couple of days and you miss a lot here! Hard to keep up!

I'd like to know Antz what you mean here. I obviously missed something. Would you mind elaborating?

No you didn't miss anything.

Maybe it is just me, but it seems that as the new months assignment comes along we forget about the last month. I thought it might be interesting to look at all the submissions at the end of the month in the context of the topic. Maybe the comments we make as each submission is are posted are sufficient?? Maybe a poll? Of course this means more work for someone.

[nomad358]

Oh yeah I don't take anything away from the tehnical, lighting and good composition of the original. The shot was great as it was I am sure but the old film look suited it superbly and it's that look I find myself more and more attracted to these days. I am a mostly a landscape photographer and I would like to achieve this same look on a landscape image. I have seen it done before but rarely well. The ones that did work though were breathtaking.

Thanks for helping

If you have photoshop, here's an easy way of achieveing the same kind of look you can easily do at home.
Find an old (preferably) brown paper shopping bag and photograph the surface of it with wrinkles and creases. (Make sure it is well lit) Then open the shot in Photoshop, resize and convert it to Black and White using the Desaturate option. Open your Landscape image, create a new Layer and then use this Paper Bag image as your overlay for your landscape image and set the Opacity to your preference, I use around 40%. You can use sepia toning for your landscape shot before doing the overlay. Merge the Layers. Next, you'll need to to Burn or Darken the edges of the photo by selecting the Burn tool and using a soft brush paint around the perimeter of the photo (Try to be consistent). And that's it! Good luck with it, I hope it works for you! :-)

[Siejones]

If you have photoshop, here's an easy way of achieveing the same kind of look you can easily do at home.
Find an old (preferably) brown paper shopping bag and photograph the surface of it with wrinkles and creases. (Make sure it is well lit) Then open the shot in Photoshop, resize and convert it to Black and White using the Desaturate option. Open your Landscape image, create a new Layer and then use this Paper Bag image as your overlay for your landscape image and set the Opacity to your preference, I use around 40%. You can use sepia toning for your landscape shot before doing the overlay. Merge the Layers. Next, you'll need to to Burn or Darken the edges of the photo by selecting the Burn tool and using a soft brush paint around the perimeter of the photo (Try to be consistent). And that's it! Good luck with it, I hope it works for you! :-)

Well I would never have thought of doing that!

I will give it a go....thank you

[Iguanasan]

No you didn't miss anything.

Maybe it is just me, but it seems that as the new months assignment comes along we forget about the last month. I thought it might be interesting to look at all the submissions at the end of the month in the context of the topic. Maybe the comments we make as each submission is are posted are sufficient?? Maybe a poll? Of course this means more work for someone.

So, some sort of a gallery or something. That sounds cool. Does this mean you are volunteering?

[jventer]

My part of nostalgia, this reminds me when I was still a small girl always wanted to go on these merry-go-rounds

[Marko]

very cool shot Ray - I like!

jventer, I like this one too really cute! maybe a slight contrast boost would make it pop just a bit harder tho.

[JAS_Photo]

One of our functions tomorrow involves the use of a few props. This old desk was one of the items brought in.

Linda's Desk