On 12 Dec 2004 at 11:26, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I took a different approach with your pic. Using Rob's action, I went for > a somewhat more conventional look, not quite sepia so much as warm toned, > making adjustments to hue/sat, the "film curve" and the amount of sepia > tone. The lack of grain didn't bother me so much as the photo had plenty > of detail in it to offset the digital smoothness that you found > objectionable. IMO, your use of the grain filter detracted from the final > result. Here my thought was that, in going for an "old tyme" look, a > larger format negative would have been used, and grain intrusion would have > been > minimal or non existent. I set the warm tone to look more like some older > prints I've seen, rather than the colder B&W silver prints that are more > contemporary.
I went for an older look but I had to mess about with the "film curve" to preserve the detail in the roof shingles, I guess it lies between Josteins version (which looks like a very early pic and is a bit too saturated in the highlights for me) and yours which looks like it's circa 50's?: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/imgp2489c.jpg > I tried Rob's action straight from the can, but it didn't cut it for this > pic as far as I was concerned. I did design it to be interactive :-) I've done some more quick conversions myself, some worked some didn't and some that did work never would have made it to print as colour images, they were essentially record shots or particularly bad exposures for one reason or another, so I'm happy: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3895.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3895gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3855.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3855gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3770.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP3770gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4026.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4026gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4067.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4067gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4074.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4074gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4600.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4600gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4548.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP4548gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP5544.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP5544gs.jpg Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
