Thanks, Stan. As a general rule, I like creative filters. They don't work for all photos at all times to be sure, but I'm not a strict traditionalist and enjoy playing around with them. If I ever used an aged/yesteryear photo etc filter, I'd never try to pass it off as an older photograph; these are just rendering names. I agree either one photo or a gallery of photos with similar rendering works best. Cheers, Christine
On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > 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. > -- 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.
