Playing with Pictures

Rosie and I went to the Gladstone Museum Costume Day to take a few photographs of the re-enactors around the Museum site.  The results were quite satisfactory.

This image is a good starting point.  It shows people in period costume for 1851.  The Gladstone Pottery Museum setting is fine and the costumes and makeup are exceptional.  The only drawbacks are  that the image is in colour and there is a modern extractor fan on the window behind the steps.  It was the first image of the day, so there is ample opportunity to tidy up the angles. 

A click of the mouse can remove the colours and render the image in Black and White in Photoshop or Gimp. The sharpness of the image is well within the range of a plate camera of the day, but lacks the distortion at the edges of the image and has to great a depth of field.

Just for fun, the rendering can be edited to give a wide range of effects. this level of digital noise on the image makes it look more like an oil painting.  Must get rid of that air extractor fan.......!

This is a more refined and edited picture.  The museum signage has been removed from the doors and all modern traces have been edited out of the image.

Here is a brief sample of the days pictures :