Digital BW, The Print

No it's not the blurring/distortion.  That's easy in PS.  I'm talking about
where it looks like the image has been flashed with a Bunsen burner or had
some liquid spilt on it.


> From: Hal Gage <halgage@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:27:06 -0900
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Old plate scans - effects
> 
> Steve Kale,
> I think that what you are seeing is a blurring/distortion effect. The
> images at Nick Brandt's site have the effect of being made with an old
> Diana plastic lens toy camera or a with a tilt/shift camera or with a
> "Lens Baby" attachment. In all the above, the image is distorted on the
> edges with the center of the image in good focus. So, the effect that
> you are seeing is an in-camera effect during the taking of the image.
> To simulate the effect after the fact try any number of the "lens"
> burring effects out there for Photoshop on a selective area of the file
> (namely around the edges to leave the center in focus).
> 
> Good luck,
> Hal Gage
> halgage.com