{"id":14766,"date":"2013-04-01T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2013-04-02T03:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:52:52","slug":"vietnam-photo-tour-hoi-an-in-sepia-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/vietnam-photo-tour-hoi-an-in-sepia-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Photo Tour: Hoi An In Sepia Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well what the hell, it’s April Fools’ Day, what better time to post something out of the ordinary. Having read some recent blog posts about the need to experiment and push the bounds of one’s typical style, I was inspired to post some images that are a departure from my “normal” type of photography. So yesterday and last night, I shot some images here in Hoi An, Vietnam, and then today, with some free time on my hands while my tour guests explored Hoi An town by themselves, I did a bunch of “tweaking” using Lightroom 3.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m sure there are better ways of converting my JPEGS from color to black and white (like Nik software’s Silver Efex Pro), but lacking such software, I just used Lightroom to covert my images to Sepia Tone, then dodged, burned, adjusted the blacks, did some vignetting, sharpened and then finally added a bunch of grain<\/span>. My goal was to create some images that looked “old school”, like pushed Kodak Tri-X 400 with a sepia tone.<\/p>\n

For a bit of history, the sepia tone process for photography was developed in the 1700s as a preservation treatment. Photos fixed with sepia-tone (silver sulfide) survived up to 50 percent longer than standard black and white prints. For this reason, most surviving early photography is sepia toned.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think these manipulates images below are a bit “over the top” but it’s April Fools’ Day, so why not?<\/p>\n

How about you; perhaps today is the day you should pull something out of your archives and see how it looks after some heavy processing, or even go out and try to shoot in a style that’s a departure from your<\/em> “norm”.<\/p>\n

Cheers, Karl<\/p>\n

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