It's been pretty crazy lately in school, plus Easter just happened and I got to go home and see some family, which was pretty amazing. I wanted to talk a little about vintage photos and over-editing. Now I am a person who has been immersed in photoshop for a good five years. So I know some really cool things and I'm actually learning a lot more things at Newhouse. For one assignment we have to design a workbook whether it's for a specific company or a made up one. The topic is anything we choose. My partner, Ashley, is really into vintage things and old photo frames. I really loved the idea, plus I can get inspired on pinterest or flickr.
So I took some photos of a girl I went to high school with, Caitlin. She had brought a lot of different clothes to choose from and even had a dress that emulated the 1800's. I took photos of her in the studio for almost 8 hours straight and it was playing with the lighting on her. It was also nice to see an old friend and meet her little dog, Harvey.
After I took these photos, I edited them fixing her hair and her skin a little, and then posted those on facebook. After two weeks, I finally found a tutorial on how to make photos look vintage. I tried it out and really liked it.
http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/comments/photoshop_vintage_effect/
Here it is, if anyone wanted to try it. I think the photos change a lot, and I think for this project, it works. However, I got a lot of comments on how the vintage effect really took away from her blue eyes. I'm still not sure I would choose to do this to a normal photo of mine, but for a project, or to go with a theme, I kind of liked how these came out. Thoughts?
This weekend should be vintage still lifes to finish up the project. Excited to try some different lighting techniques that I learned last semester.
For now, I should get some sleep. I haven't slept since Monday night! Crazy grad school.
