"Mob Boss" - C & C please.

thehomeofDob

First off, I'm not a photographer, don't know anything about photography except how to point and shoot.

Anyway, I was in Bray today, visting a friend who just spent the summer in the States, was catchin up with stuff and what not. We were sitting by sea, near that aquarium place. A long comes this old guy, wearing a suit, looking like he just stepped out of a 1920's movie. I whipped out the phone and took a shot, lukily enough, the shutter lag caught him in mid stride and it took what I think to be a great picture. Only thing that ruins it I think is the bottle of water in his right hand

I played around with it in photoshop for a little bit, tried to make it look older, but I didn't quite get it. If anyone could do me a favour and edit the original (1600x1200) to give it that "old" look I'd much appreciate it. I'd like to use it as my wallpaper.



I can post the original later tonight if there's any interest.

Morlar

I wouldnt change the bottle as it looks like a glass one and makes this guy look more ominous imo. I would probably tilt the horizon back a bit so that its level. I think the tones are great and the conversion looks pretty good too. He looks like one of the sopranos on that brighton in beach new york.

elven

That is a cracking picture... I love the bw conversion, too... but I wouldn't change the skewedness of the horizon, or the bottle. The squintyness just adds to the surreal feeling of the whole thing, and I wouldn't have paid much notice to the bottle if you hadn't of pointed it out, either. You should definitely post the original if you want people to have a shot at age-ing it.

PaulieC

thehomeofDob wrote:

First off, I'm not a photographer, don't know anything about photography except how to point and shoot.

thehomeofDob wrote:

lukily enough, the shutter lag caught him in mid stride

thehomeofDob wrote:

I played around with it in photoshop for a little bit,

you don't know anything about photography, but you know what shutter lag is and you have photoshop...interesting

Fajitas!

Ah Photoshop comes with Limewire these days!*

And anyone with a digital P&S over 2 years old knows ALL about shutter lag with half their shots being ruined

*Not true for legal reasons.

thehomeofDob

@cambo: Yes I know what shutter lag is, it's a pretty common thing and it's self explanitory really.

I have photoshop because a cousin gave me a copy of it. I use it for making forum signatures (see sig), and photo editing is in a whole other class to that.

I'll post up the original when I get home tonight.

ThenComesDudley

thats a phone camera, good quality!

what one are you using? if you don't mind me asking

Philistine

Really great shot and the conversion works so well here. You just made an old mobster famous !

Wez

Very nice photo I must say! Like the style of it..

Here's what I did to it, just brought out the grain in it, make it look kinda old..

Takeshi_Kovacs

Just a quick lash at it..


Still lacking something to give that 30's feel, I am sure sombody else is can or is working on a better version...

..... Ah i know... a TOMMY GUN and some moonshine!!


ACE original shot by the way..

Wez

I was looking for something along those lines Takeshi_Kovacs.. Is that filter in Adobe 7 by any chance? Gives a real nice effect..

thehomeofDob

Thanks for all the replies guys, it was a bit of a random luck shot, but I thought I'd post it up anyway. Here's the original for you all to play with. I'd love if someone could get an nice sepia/old look going on with it, as I just don't have enough experience with photo editing to get the look I want.



@Dudley: It was taken on a 6280, a decent 2mp camera, well... semi decent

Ruu_Old

Good work, pretty decent shot. I prefer the black and white conversion. Keep posting.

thehomeofDob

Thanks Ruu,
Oh yes, the conversion is a lot better - just posted the original to see if anyone could do a better job at doing a full size edit on it. I don't know if I'll be posting any more pics, this seems to be a one off shot in a million for me

CraggyIslander

nonsense, that pic shows you got a good eye for it and thats what its about... the rest is timing and luck to capture it just right........ like you did there Get a simple point n shoot (simpler to handle than phone I think) n go looking for shots....... you got the eye

ciaranhickey

Great Photo!! And very good quality for a camera phone!
I hope you don't mind but I had a play around with it in PS.

Shrimp

Thats a cool shot, try it B&W with some nice vignette and some noise. Good job!

artieanna

I just added browns & reduced dpi to create slight blur plus reduced size. I wouldn't try to change it much add off white uneven frame around it maybe. great pic:) .....

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Ruu_Old

Heres my go, not sure if it worked out the way I wanted to. Just put some lighting in his direction and added some noise.

Fionn

hey
great catch - hope this guy isn't really in the mob!!!!!


here's my take on it

artieanna

nice one fionn really well done!!!!:D Poor guy if he wasn't in the mob he sure is now;) :cool:

positron

Fionn, you even patched up his shadow! Nice one!

AdeleS

Hey, that's my Da.... was wondering where he'd got to;)

Fionn

i didn't realise your Da owned a Browening 9mm automatic

bowes down to AdeleS...........

AdeleS

He said he was going out today... had a bone to pick with some guy called Fionn... can't imagine who that could be:rolleyes:

Fionn

ah tis ok

i got me flack jacket and helmet on