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spannerdude
12-09-2007, 17:32
A) It could have been taken in the 1950's
or
B) Like some prat with a digital camera desaturated and blurred it a bit and stuck a load of fake noise over it?

Answers on the back of a ten pound note please.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l106/the_spannerdude/Motorsport/Revival%202007/50sstylecopy.jpg
Marcel
12-09-2007, 18:10
A, most definitely IMO :)
Jimmy_Lemon
12-09-2007, 18:14
Very nicely done :D A for me too!
Slapo
12-09-2007, 18:20
Too much detail there, so it's B for me.

EDIT: Just had a look at the exif info, it's nice to see not everyone bows to Nikon or Canon only ;)
Ajophotog
12-09-2007, 18:23
Give it a bit of vignetting to finish it off I reckon ;)
GAELICSTORM7
12-09-2007, 18:43
good, but it's abit too sharp for an oldy worldy photo in my oppinion

Alan
oldgit
12-09-2007, 18:46
Quite a good conversion that. Bit of vignetting and more colour toning would push it a bit further
spannerdude
12-09-2007, 19:06
Give it a bit of vignetting to finish it off I reckon ;)

Mmm Vignette :thinking: Good idea.

Too much? Not enough? I'm never quite sure.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l106/the_spannerdude/Motorsport/Revival%202007/50sstylecopy2.jpg
Slapo
12-09-2007, 19:09
Not enough, imo.
badgerbaiter
12-09-2007, 20:29
A+B
the first car looks like authentic, but the second car looks too sharp.
talk about sitting on the fence :)
Ajophotog
12-09-2007, 20:46
Here you go more vig, more noise, be brave :D

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/1368041948_0b80edd65e_o.jpg
spannerdude
12-09-2007, 22:50
:thumbs:
mole2k
13-09-2007, 01:49
I think it looks pretty genuine in the editing you have done, the curbs look very modern to me for some reason. I'll be the first to admit I dont have that much knowledge as to what curbs looked like in the 50's but they look out of place in the photo to me.

I would also agree that the first car looks more authentic than the last because the last is a tad too sharp.
Hoodi
13-09-2007, 02:00
You lot have some funny ideas about what 50's gear can produce:lol:

I have gear from that period which produces lovely sharp images. Admittedly emulsions weren't as good back then, but I have period negatives which, also, are pretty sharp (and low on the ol' grain!).

Still, the content looks pretty good to me!
nilagin
13-09-2007, 08:10
I think it looks pretty genuine in the editing you have done, the curbs look very modern to me for some reason. I'll be the first to admit I dont have that much knowledge as to what curbs looked like in the 50's but they look out of place in the photo to me.

I would also agree that the first car looks more authentic than the last because the last is a tad too sharp.

I have to agree, I don't think there would have been any kerbs. Perhaps a few straw bales instead.
InaGlo
13-09-2007, 08:12
I think youve done a fab job, :thumbs:
Only minor citicism jumping out for me is that the whites are a little too ... well ... white.
Ratty
13-09-2007, 15:07
Like the pic but TBH it'll never look like a '50s pic while it's got those kerbs and white lines on the track !
(to be really picky the tarmac is very wrong and the surroundings are questionable)

Still a pleasant pic.
Ross
13-09-2007, 15:12
Like the pic but TBH it'll never look like a '50s pic while it's got those kerbs and white lines on the track !

Only to people who know motorsports I guess. Still a good take on the subject but spannerdude YOU AINT FOOLIN' NO ONE BUDDY
dod
13-09-2007, 19:45
I like the treatment in the last one, good stuff :)
spannerdude
17-09-2007, 12:14
Like the pic but TBH it'll never look like a '50s pic while it's got those kerbs and white lines on the track !
(to be really picky the tarmac is very wrong and the surroundings are questionable)

Still a pleasant pic.

Thanks, TBH I wasn't really to concerned about the subject, it was the PP I was trying to get right. There is a lot of cloning to do on most of my shots to get the subject looking right, I can clone out the kerbs, kill switch and extinguisher cable toggles and the endless stickers once I've got the feel right. I kind of like to leave something in though, like the anachronistic detail in a Sam Peckinpah movie. ;)

Hoodi, I know what you mean. I've been looking at vintage picture galleries and a lot of the images are every bit as sharp as today.
surrealillusions
20-09-2007, 14:45
You did a good job..but it does look like a modern photo. The last edit looks to be alot better and more of a 50's feel to it.

Agreed about the curbs and white lines, not much you can do about it..unless your very good at PS and able to clone them out and stick a few straw bales near the side of the track.

:)
Bob
20-09-2007, 20:36
Agree the edtied photo has that feel of the fifties perhaps try to clone the grass over the markings may help
Bob
inaneredstripe
21-09-2007, 21:36
yup. the last one ,it is.