Antique Lighthouse

[ToddM]

I tried to make this image look like an old antique photo. I desaturated to black & white and added sepia tint. Then I used blur tool on edges to make it look worn then added border as if it were an antique print. Might look cooler with a slight page curl.

Ocracoke Island lighthouse N.C. Canon Rebel 2000, fuji 200. Scanned from neg.

 

[santino]

looks quite good, I'd add some scratches, dust and that kind of stuff.

 

[Sk8man]

looks good. try adding some noise and "scratches" to show the age of the photo.

 

[mentos_007]

add noise here

 

[craig]

The form and texture of this photo seems strong to me. I am swinging toward seeing the original.

 

[2Stupid2Duck]

I'd down the brightness a little - that one side of the lighthouse looks a wee bit "blown".

 

[ToddM]

>Craig - I went into some old storage CD's to find the original scan but it seems I did not save the original color scan. As I remember, I was not happy with the color and as duck said, I also thought it seemed overexposed and I believe that is why I decided to just desaturate the color alltogether and make a special fx photo out it. I wished I had used a polarizer on that shot as it would have brought out detail in the sky and so forth.

 

[Digital Matt]

Beautiful shot, and i must say, it does look like an old print. I thought this was film until I read your notes. Well done