Civil War Picture

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited November 14, 2005 in People
Dixie suggested to try sepia. Here's a quickie:

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Something like that?

EDIT: here's the color original:
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2005
    Cool. And, I can actually focus on the shot. Too many to enjoy in the other post IMO - you can help your viewers out by "editing" your keepers a bit more - and then just giving the link to your galleries for more deal.gif

    Just trying to help you get more comments etc Nik,
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2005
    Thanks, Andy!
    andy wrote:
    Cool. And, I can actually focus on the shot. Too many to enjoy in the other post IMO - you can help your viewers out by "editing" your keepers a bit more - and then just giving the link to your galleries for more deal.gif

    Just trying to help you get more comments etc Nik,
    I always appreciate your comments!
    I also added the original!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2005
    Does anybody think...
    .. it needs "more authenticity" added?
    Warped? Cracks? Torn/damaged edges?ne_nau.gif
    I'm open to suggestions...:):
    Thank you!thumb.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2005
    thumb.gifthe sepia looks very cool shot like a meusum
    if you tear the edges it will look like a photo printed from PAST and will be super cool
    i was just going to ask "did you scanned an old shot ? " iloveyou.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2005
    I do like it in sepia! It would not have been my pick, but I am sure you plan to do more.........................and show us all.:D

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2005
    The sepia is wonderful!!!

    N.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2005
    I want my book back, a recent best seller that I loaned out: A Southern Widow!

    Such writing, a novel of a true story if anyone is interested that writing is out of this world.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 8, 2005
    Thanks, Awais!
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    thumb.gifthe sepia looks very cool shot like a meusum
    if you tear the edges it will look like a photo printed from PAST and will be super cool
    i was just going to ask "did you scanned an old shot ? " iloveyou.gif
    I will try some more in this direction:-)

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 8, 2005
    Ginger,
    ginger_55 wrote:
    I do like it in sepia! It would not have been my pick, but I am sure you plan to do more.........................and show us all.:D

    ginger
    I picked this picture becuased it had distinctive shapes of the rifle barrels. Many other pictures do need color to accentuate the details.

    Thanks for looking!thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 8, 2005
    Thusie,
    Thusie wrote:
    The sepia is wonderful!!!

    N.
    Thank you very much, apreciate it!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2005
    Now with the torn/burnt edges
    44203373-L.jpg

    Kinda gives it a little more kick, IMHO...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2005
    Sepia does it ,edge treatment is edge treatment the picture does all the work for me.
    Thanks for sharing

    Tim
  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2005
    Thanks Nik, I like it. thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2005
    Tim,
    Shakey wrote:
    Sepia does it ,edge treatment is edge treatment the picture does all the work for me.
    Thanks for sharing

    Tim
    Thanks for looking!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2005
    Dixie,
    Dixie wrote:
    Thanks Nik, I like it. thumb.gif
    Thanks for the idea:-)thumb.gif
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Like I said Nik, a regular Mathew Brady. mwink.gifthumb.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    actually, though I had said I would not have picked that particular one to do, I love it now that it is done!

    I saw it last night on the challenge.

    How did you do the burnt edges? Not that I want you to have to give a tutorial, but was it a program, or in a book, or???

    looks wonderful. And i also like the fading sepia, it is not your average sepia treatment, it truly looks "old".

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    The sepia version would work better, IMHO, if it had a true white highlight and true black shadow, perhaps:

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    If not now, when?
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Yes, but if it were technically "good" would it then look "old"?

    ginger (I don't mean it isn't good now, I mean how best to show the effect of age.)
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Burnt edges, etc.
    ginger_55 wrote:
    actually, though I had said I would not have picked that particular one to do, I love it now that it is done!

    I saw it last night on the challenge.

    How did you do the burnt edges? Not that I want you to have to give a tutorial, but was it a program, or in a book, or???

    looks wonderful. And i also like the fading sepia, it is not your average sepia treatment, it truly looks "old".

    ginger
    Ginger, thanks a lot for your kind words!

    Burnt edges kinda came free with "tearing". My main layer had a couple of adjustment layers (which in essence provide the sepia look) AND style layer that drops tha shadow. After than I simply picked up an small soft eraser (I know, I know: a big "no-no" in a modern "non-destructive" workflow, but sometimes you gotta break out of what experts say and do what you yourself think would wrok best) and kinda "walked my way" through the edges, trying not to be very accurate:-) Since the "shadow" dilligently follows the non-transparent edge, I got my "uneven edge". And since my adjustment layers were above my style one, the shadow/edges also got this burnt look, which I immediatley liked.

    HTH
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Rutt,
    rutt wrote:
    The sepia version would work better, IMHO, if it had a true white highlight and true black shadow, perhaps
    I will try it, but I kinda like the way it is now ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Dixie,
    Dixie wrote:
    Like I said Nik, a regular Mathew Brady. mwink.gifthumb.gif
    I'm flattered:):
    Thanks, man!
    BTW - are you coming for the post-shootout? Didn't hear you on it for a long time...:cry
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    My thoughts, too
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Yes, but if it were technically "good" would it then look "old"?

    ginger (I don't mean it isn't good now, I mean how best to show the effect of age.)
    What ginger said deal.gif
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Nikolai wrote:
    I will try it, but I kinda like the way it is now ne_nau.gif

    Actually, I don't know that much about duotones. I'm just regurgitating some DM stuff from Chapter 8. There is a sort of long digression about why not to make sepias in LAB, basically that you can't get clean whites and blacks. Take a look, it's sure to confuse at first and then enlighten in the long run.
    If not now, when?
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    I will:-)
    rutt wrote:
    Actually, I don't know that much about duotones. I'm just regurgitating some DM stuff from Chapter 8. There is a sort of long digression about why not to make sepias in LAB, basically that you can't get clean whites and blacks. Take a look, it's sure to confuse at first and then enlighten in the long run.
    I got stuck in the middle - again..ne_nau.gif
    Funny, with Scott's and Kevin's books I went straight from cover to cover. But with Dan's it seems to be the whole different story.. Prolly because the subject is so much more complex..
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  • leebaseleebase Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2005
    Definately the sepia! Love your work :)

    Lee
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2005
    Lee,
    leebase wrote:
    Definately the sepia! Love your work :)

    Lee
    Thank you, appreciate it!
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  • illuminati919illuminati919 Registered Users Posts: 713 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2005
    I really like the sepia, especially how it goes from bright to higher contrast. It really does it for the photo. Keep it at sepia and do more to make it look older. It looks excellent right now but I am sure you will make it look even better. thumb.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2005
    Well, you could bleed on it!

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2005
    Thank you!
    illuminati919 wrote:
    I really like the sepia, especially how it goes from bright to higher contrast. It really does it for the photo. Keep it at sepia and do more to make it look older. It looks excellent right now but I am sure you will make it look even better. thumb.gif
    I'll probably stop fiddling with it for now - there are more pictures to process:-)
    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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