Tom Sawyer Island, circa 1907

zackiedawg

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Old color photographs lose their colors a bit, and some of the colors can change as they fade and yellow - but they've still got impact. ; This old photograph of Harper's Mill, on Tom Sawyer island, was dug up in Mark Twain's house...possibly taken by him with an early color camera before his passing:

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OK...maybe not. ; :) ; Inspired by a movie called "Oh Brother Where Art Thou", which was post-processed digitally to wash out the colors and impart a 10% sepia tone over the washed color to give a feeling of 1920's Mississippi...I decided to use the same color-wash and partial sepie process to age a color photo of Harper's Mill. ; Nowadays, Nik has some filters that achieve various aging effects...but this wasn't all that hard to do and it was fun to play around.

Comments or critique welcome.
 
i am a man of constant sorrow, mostly over how much i still don't know about post processing, how about showing a 20% fade, my personal taste runs a little more towards the browner sepia look
 
I should have known you'd know Oh Brother...what with the musical connection! ; A Dan Tyminski reference too. ; My boy Flux played on that soundtrack too. ; I did leave the sepia a little light...that film was a complete revelation to me - artistically and comically. ; Totally a brilliant stroke to remake Homer's Odyssey in depression-era Mississippi in hand-tinted film style, as a comedy, and root it all together with bluegrass music.
 
flux, for those not knowing, is the nickname for jerry douglas, master of the resonator guitar, aka the dobro
i love the movie simply because it helped my beloved bluegrass become even better known, has been a real shot in the arm for the income of dr ralph stanley, one of the last living performing performers of the old timey string band music. it even meant a new bus for he and his band, the clinch mountain boys
i wept when carter stanley died
 
Ralph's "Oh Death" was spine tingling on that soundtrack...I was not familiar with this legend until the movie, but definitely gained an appreciation.

Here's a crazy link for you all...

My father, a one-time singer/songwriter in the 60's mostly unknown outside of the NJ/NY metro area who now works in the film/video industry, got together with his old bandmate friend to write and perform a song for the California School board and L.A. Dermotological Society in collaboration with Disney channel - his video company was working on a school safety video project to distribute at schools for sun safety. ; He hadn't recorded in decades, and figured it would be fun - and he called in some favors from friends he knew in the music industry to be his backing band. ; Jerry Douglas, Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Darryl Jones (bass), and Deniece Williams make up the backing band behind my dad and his buddy, both singing and on acoustic guitar.

You can hear a clip of the song and a part of the video at the link here:

http://www.sunsafetyforkids.org/videos/ ... oomuchsun/

The dobro stands out pretty easily! ; All done charitably - and for my dad, a thrill to play with such legends.
 
Here is what I was able to creat using NIK Color EFEX.
The first is the starting image: These were all one click, one layer changes
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Then here are the different versions of "old Photo"
Option 1:
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Option 2:
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Option 5:
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Option 6:
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For this one I converted using nik silver fx, and put it on a duplicate background layer. the b&w layer was set to 59% transparency.



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Craig...of the 'old film' treatments...I like #1 the best. ; Though it's fun to try out all different kinds! ; The separate one you posted is more like the technique I used.

Goofmick - thank you. ; Did you check out the song link too? ; ;)
 
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