This is a famous landmark in the UK, called the Blackpool Tower.   Blackpool is a seaside town, famed for it’s magnificent street lights.  People come for miles around to see them.  It’s also known for it’s entertainment.  Many well known entertainers perform there regularly.  When we moved up to Yorkshire, we just had to go to Blackpool, at least once.   It wasn’t really our thing.  Too big and noisy, with lots of  ‘Kiss me Quick’ hats, if you know what I mean :O)

Anyway, I thought it made a good sepia shot.  I did some tweaking around in Photoshop to make it look old.

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I loved the effect of this photo.  I used a Photoshop Action that Lee of Tarheel Ramblings guided me to.  There are two sets of actions at The Pioneer Woman’s briliiant photography blog, and they are totally free to download and use.  I used the ‘Vintage’ action here and was pleasantly surprised by it.  I like to play around and experiment myself, but sometimes it’s just nice to simplyfy the process.

Again, I’ve posted the original to show the full effect of the action.

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I took this photo on New Years day.  It was a really frosty day, with a little mist, so we went out to get some photos.  I took the photo of this farmhouse especially for Sepia Scenes.

I played around with filters in Photoshop to get this effect so I posted the original photo for you to see the actual view.

The original shot.

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I don’t know if I’m late posting this – I probably am :O)  This was taken with my old camera last year but I thought these lambs looked cute in sepia.  I can’t tell you how I achieved the sepia, as I did this a while back.  After I turned it sepia in Photoshop, I made a layer and used ‘Screen’ to make it bleach out.  I then erase all but a few patches of the screen layer.

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I got to post a Sepia Scenes photo today.  It isn’t the one I intended posting because the one I had in mind isn’t quite ready.  I’ll post that one next week.

I’m afraid I can’t say how I achieved this one because I did it a couple of weeks ago and I can’t remember now.  I posted the original shot also.  It was taken this summer while tucking into a lovely picnic.  I couldn’t resist taking a photo of such a beautiful oak tree.

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This is an old photo, turning sepia through age. I have reversed the process of the meme for this post.

It’s a photograph of my parents wedding.  You can see how badly damaged it is.  I can’t imagine how it got in that state.  Somebody had stuck it to a piece of paper and tried to draw in the parts that were missing. I decided it was worth trying to salvage, so I scanned it in to Photoshop and went to work.

Here you see the original photograph, and below is the photograph after working in Photoshop.  They are both enlargeable if you click them.

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This is a photo taken a few years ago, when we had a lovely snow fall.  I turned it sepia using ‘Colour Variations’ in Photoshop, until I got the desired colour.  I then burnt it out a bit to make it look old and faded, using ‘Level’ and altering the highlight slider (on the right) to bleach out the snow colour.  added a layer and brushed on the outer shaded bits.  Once I was satisfied, I ‘flattened’ the image.

If you click my ‘Snow’ category link, you will see the original photo, that Mo took.

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This is my contribution to the new photographic theme ‘Sepia Scenes’ I took this in the summer and used it for a SkyWatch photo.  I tried to make it look a bit old too.

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