Is it considered too amateur to play with pictures like this?

[DennyCrane]

I think the effect works... having just gone through a really big pile of my bad photography from the early 80s... I'd say you achieved the effect of an old film photo from that era well. If not for the new buildings. I'd believe that was a scan of an old picture.

 

[bdroberts]

to straighten the buildings---
In PhotoShop.....Crtl A to select all
Crtl T to go to transform
Edit Transform..select perspective
Click either the left or right top handle and adjust.
Re Crop..and save as......
Done!

 

[rodnunley]

to straighten the buildings---
In PhotoShop.....Crtl A to select all
Crtl T to go to transform
Edit Transform..select perspective
Click either the left or right top handle and adjust.
Re Crop..and save as......
Done!

Thanks.

 

[LokiZ]

To add to Bob's post if after you are done with the transforming you want to check your work a quick and easy way to do so is to use the selection tool. Use your mouse and select a start point at one end of the horizon (or whatever you straightened) and then mouse over to the other end of the horizon and you'll have a quick and dirty way of seeing if your image is square or not.

I agree with Denny's comments as to your effects and the success you had in mimicking the colors of prints for the 80's era.

 

[filmshooter]

Another "dirty" way of checking if you are square is to take another window, like firefox, msie, et cetera, and put the edge over top of the horizon or along the edge of a building when you have the picture open on the computer. I do that quite often rather than selecting different tools and the likes.

 

[David Dvir]

Not amateur at all.

 

[LokiZ]

Another "dirty" way of checking if you are square is to take another window, like firefox, msie, et cetera, and put the edge over top of the horizon or along the edge of a building when you have the picture open on the computer. I do that quite often rather than selecting different tools and the likes.

Great tip filmshooter! And that works even if you are only in a browser not just an editor. :thumbup:

 

[humpty]

Nothing wrong with being 'amateur' is there ?
Anyway, there's a free tool from mediachance that does that sort of thing.
BWorks

 

[filmshooter]

LokiZ, I'm always happy to help! =]

 

[DirtyDFeckers]

I'm sad that you would have to ask whether this is too "amateur." Since when did photography stop being fun? It's never a bad thing to try something new... Don't worry about color clashing with the 80's or any of that crap dude... Try what you want, who knows, you might stumble onto the next big trend

 

[dcmoody23]

I guess I should have asked the TPF community if it was amateur to add sepia and film grain to some portrait shots I did of my girlfriend with her modern style clothes on .. Rules are meant to be broken, my friend. Ooh and Dirty D hit it on the money with his last sentence .. Will you start a trend? Probably not - but that doesn't mean people won't like it.
That and imagine what the HDR pros were saying when they saw the first version of HDR that was full of exaggerated, saturated colors.. Now it is the big thing among HDR users. So who knows, or better yet, who cares? DO what you want. If your target audience likes it, then who is Joe Shmoe photog extraordinare to say about your work?

 

[beeswax]

Looks great, I love the old-style photos. Such as the ones that get submitted at my website Beeswax you should go check it out, maybe try to win something.

 

[Warren Peace]

I think you have achieved what you were going for. It is not amateurish at all, but your view of something. Since I have been on forums, and being an amateur myself, all the purists are always on to people for what they do. As long as you are happy with your image, who cares what others think.