6GC member rides + Photoshop love = fun Options

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Lately, I've been reading a lot on vintage photography and it has gotten me very interested. The way people manipulated film to achieve their personal style, and the way each film brand and model had its own characteristics. Velvia and Kodachrome interested me the most. I've always shot digital, but I'm going to give a shot at film. A friend of mine has experience on it already, so I'll grab one of her old Nikons, buy me some nice Kodak and Fujifilm rolls and start shooting away. I shouldn't have a problem with it, since I always shoot on manual focus on my digital cameras, I'm pretty dead on when reading the meter, and I always use the Manual mode for exposure and aperture control.

I fiddled around with a few of my favorite rides of 6GC and I just wanted to show them. I'll keep looking arounf for shots that get my eye and I'll mess with them. It's nothing out of this world, but since my Celica is not in shape to be photographed, I still wanted to get rid of the photography itch, even if it wasn't my own, and apply some of the weirdness of old films. Most of this is just curves and playing with the saturation adjustment layers, so anybody can do it.

Guess who? By the way, good eye on these shots.

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Well, first you need a decently composed picture of a car, with a clean background. Because, as we all know, you can Photoshop the hell out of a picture and if it's crap to begin with, well...you've heard the saying about polishing a turd. Then, it's really up to your likes. You start Photoshop and work with the Curves adjustment layers, and all the other adjustment layers that will suit whatever you have in mind for the picture. In all these pictures, there is really not much done to them. They're not Photoshoped to hell like some people refer to edited pictures. You can do any of this pictures in five minutes just taking your sweet time, and most of the time is spent just changing your mind and doing a different edit.