My Brownie Revisited

[Patti Edens]

I attempted to recreate the "look" of some of the old photos I took with a Kodak Brownie many years ago growing up in Galveston. I tried to duplicate the yellowed color, the graininess, the lack of sharpness, the lack of dynamic range and that ratty scalloped border of the old prints.

I converted to B&W, added a sepia tone, added noise, blurred, increased contrast to reduce dynamic range, added white canvas for the border, grunged it up and cloned the border scallops from an old scanned photo.

[denise ippolito]

Patti, You really aged this one! I like the comp. but might take a bit off the bottom if it were mine. The scallop border is a nice touch. You really get a sense of an old photo when viewing this w/ the grain and OOF left area. The color toning looks good.:)

[Dave Woeller]

I agree that you have achieived your goal. Nicely done and I agree with Denise about considering a touch off the bottom. Still a pleasing image. Congrats

[Barbara Kile]

Ditto on the comp; great work on the 'old.' Your edge treatment really compliments the theme. Nice work!

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Patti.

While I agree with Denise, I would like to keep the grass in the lower right to fill that area. Personally, I think I would leave it uncropped. But ...

Your image ... Your vision.

[Christopher Miller]

Nice work, Patti! Definitely looks like an old photo :). I especially like the scalloped edge.

[Patti Edens]

Thanks all for the comments and cropping suggestion. I also feel that the bird needs to come down and bit and I have way too much of the posts in the comp. The problem I had was that, as Mark mentioned, I wanted to keep the grass and I also needed to keep the square aspect ratio because that's what my Brownie shot. I suppose I could have cloned the grass up... but I would have lost my nice blurry left side of the posts and anyway, all that cloning would have been too much like work. :eek::D

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

You did well Patty. Love the grain and feel of this image. :)

[Cheryl Slechta]

Patti, I like it the way it is. I love the blurry left side and the grain and the composition. Well done.