Position the mouse cursor over the image to see the original color version.
Move mouse cursor off the image to see the "Old Fashion" image.
Position the mouse cursor over the image to see the original color version.
Move mouse cursor off the image to see the "Old Fashion" image.
Peppersauce cave in Southern Arizona used to be very nice and decorated with a lot of speleothems (stalactites, stalagmites, columns, and others). Only a few still exist due to vandalism and theft. My children and I visited the cave with another family to give the children an exposure to what a limestone cave is like. I also took the time to teach them about the vandalism people do and show them examples.
This photograph was taken about halfway into the cave on a ridge between drop-offs into two rooms. While processing the image, I wanted to see what the photograph would look like in monochrome with a sepia tint applied. It looked ok, but I wanted it to look more like a very old photograph taken with the old lenses that were not very sharp. Those lenses had quite a bit of spherical aberration that created what was called an impressionistic image. I used techniques that I've learned through using Adobe Photoshop to give it that "Old Fashion" look. You can put the mouse cursor over the image to see the original color version.
I took this photograph with the camera sitting on top of my camera bag to act as a tripod and used an external flash unit off-camera, resting against my backpack so I wouldn't have flat lighting. I also used the camera's built-in timer so I could be in the photograph.
Photographer: Rick Scott
Date: 24 October 2004
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE A1 digital camera
Lens: Built-in zoom set to 7.2 mm (35 mm equivalent is 28 mm)
Exposure: 1/200 second at f/5.6 with off-camera flash
Camera Mode: ISO 100 RAW
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS for RAW conversion and image processing
Updated: 3 October 2004, 31 May 2008, 15 May 2009