My get-pushed challenge for this week, from @simster, is to create photographs that have a vintage feel. Given all the beautifully colored flowers that we've been posting, I decided to work with one tonite to see what is lost/gained in moving to a more vintage feel. I processed with Silver Efex Pro, then imported back to Aperture to do some final tweaks with it.
So, what is lost and what is gained? I'm curious what you all think. Obviously we lose the beautiful, rich purple of the flower on the left, but I am sort of liking that I'm focusing more on the flower structure/form, which is especially interesting in the darker flower. Needs to be seen larger to see the detail in the white one.
The title probably doesn't make any sense, but I thought the darker flower looked like s/he was holding a finger up in the universal sign to 'be quiet.'
Lovely tones here for your challenge. Would like a little more detail in the white. (Now that you've said that about the darker flower, I can't stop thinking of it saying Shh!)
@archaeofrog Hee-hee...the 'shhh' look was one of my reasons for choosing the shot -- I thought it was kind of funny. I need a better program (or learn more how to use the ones I have) to do selective highlighting to make the white details show up better without enlarging.
@ness50 Thanks Vanessa! @kazlamont@timandelke Thank you Kazzy and Elke -- b&w is so interesting to me, the way it changes how I see the things in the photo.
@kazlamont @timandelke Thank you Kazzy and Elke -- b&w is so interesting to me, the way it changes how I see the things in the photo.
Also interesting that I saw the next day's photo first, and thought the sepia looked vintage and now I read why . . .