You know those photos of your dad with a thick beard taken 4 years before you were born. They’re grainy, and the color is filled with amazing oranges and yellows, either because photo technology was still working out some kinks, the colors actually looked like that back then, or they were trying to match the colors of the wallpaper and couches of the time. Whichever it might be… LOVE IT!
I hope that 27 years from now, when I look back on the photos of me and my friends today, they are grainy, lost of color, and we have beards.
I think what i’m getting at is that my new D90 is “way” exciting to me right now. I don’t know where to begin with it, but apparently I like making the photos look like old photos.
This particular photo is of Drew, it was taken in 1937. Here is another photo that I’ve played with that was taken in the late 60’s maybe early 70’s, I can’t really remember.
If you know of any decades of photography I should try to create please let me know. Also, you should know I do portraits for $150. What you get is a photo of yourself. I’ll even make it look like an old photo for an additional charge of $20 or a wheel of smoked Gouda.
4 responses so far ↓
1 drew // Jan 13, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This was by far our best time-traveling New Years ever.
All the photographs are looking great, Whit!
2 Mom // Jan 13, 2009 at 6:31 pm
If you take an old photo of me now, will I look younger than I am?
xMom
3 Whit Scott // Jan 14, 2009 at 9:36 am
No, you’ll look the same as you look now, the photo will just have been taken at a different time. The way it works is that the camera takes the picture back in the time you want it to take; like 1968 – It then travels to the future which is present day, takes a picture of you, goes back in time and develops it with all the old materials.
If you’re lucky, 27 years from now when you look back at the photo, you’ll have a beard.
4 Mom // Jan 14, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Oh! Now I get it.
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