On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > I was able to sneak in some photography at the beach today--didn't have much > time, but had some fun anyway. Darrel prefers the traditional rendering. > This the first chance I've had to fool around with Lightroom 3, and I'll just > say wow! Lots of new filter settings to play with. I like'em. The second > version uses the Yesteryear 1 filter--just thought I'd post both--see if > there's any preference; my guess is most will prefer the traditional > rendering. Did I call that right? :-) Cheers, Christine > > > http://aguilapaw.posterous.com
You know I tend to prefer minimal mucking around with images, opting for a what-I-saw-is-what-you-get approach. So it may surprise you that I prefer your filtered Yesteryear version here. Part of that is that the color balance in the traditional looks too cold to me. Overall I think that my preferred image would be the "traditional" with a touch more warmth. But the Yesteryear version is nice on its own. The combination of vignetting plus color changes does an effective job in rendering the look of old slides. So of the two presented, I would take the manipulated version. <begin idle musing> Having said that, I am not sure how one could use such an image. It would be dishonest of course to try and pass something like this off as a rediscovered old photo, so it would need to be presented in a context where the manipulation is self-evident. It might work as one of a series of new images all of which had been Yesteryeared, but I think the trick would quickly become old. As a single print on a wall, maybe. As one in a set of varied images put together as a Portfolio, maybe. <end idle musing> stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
