Re: Aging a fraud-o-graph

Tough crowd. After spending hours cloning out all the wires out I get dinged for no wires! Dang. With regard to the sharpness, some of of the digital filters reduce the sharpness but I kinda liked keeping at least the center of the photo reasonably sharp. I never thought much about why I was doing this but I certainly wasn't expecting to fool anybody. I think it boiled down to here is a digital tool, why not use it. I kinda like the result. But the feed back is appreciated. One of the things that fascinated me about the photo ops with the 18 at Laws was the "authentic" ambience of the museum grounds. Even though much has been changed, the grounds just feel old time. Most of the stuff on display as well as the building s have a patina of age that any modeler could envy. My pix seemed to capture some of that ambience, but the digital technology made them too "perfect". So "aging" the image was kind of a natural extension of the experience. But I guess I liked the sharpness too much to "age" that too much. In general I am not a fan of taking digital images and transforming them to B&W much less this aging process, but occasionally there seems to be an exception, an image that just begs for it. And it is so easy to do with all the modern digital stuff.

This is one that I thought would look good in B&W with a filter but no "aging".



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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2017 05:42PM by John West.