Having a little time on my hands this morning I was going through my RSS Subscriptions. Donncha’s post which mentioned Lomography. Not having GIMP I went searching for a Photoshop action, finding Emanuele’s Action for download.
Playing with the Action in PS was an interesting experience, although I can’t say I’m a great fan of the style. I can’t get the action to reproduce anything like Donncha’s but what I did achieve was something I think is pretty cool.
I played with a couple of photos that I took at Brooklands Mini Show in March ‘07. First up, the original photo (click any of them for a larger version)
The first run through of the action produced this result:
I didn’t particularly like the wash-out of the colour and there was an unsharp mask (USM) that was just over sharpening the image.
I played again, turning the image sepia and deselecting the USM filter getting this result:
Not too bad I thought!
I had a play using the same effects on a different image and this resulted:
What do you think? Is there any way that I could improve these? How about forgetting the technique altogether?
#1 by Donncha O Caoimh on November 5th, 2007
I love that last image! The bright stripes and the “FUN” reg plate totally stand out. I think the second shot looks a bit “too sharp” and might be better if it was brighter.
Love that cute last image though :)