27 Apr antique roadshow {117/365}

Today was a perfect day for touring around.  Bright, sunny and clear but holy crap chilly!  So I took full advantage of the (somewhat) gorgeous day and hopped in the car.  Plus I’d promised daughter I’d drive her to her middle-of-nowhere school.

And than I ended up here …

I took a ton of shots and scored an old wooden pop crate for $8. Go me!

While processing these, I was trying to get a retro/vintage, kind of cross-processed look and ended up making my own preset. Well actually, I made four, each one slightly different (sharper, softer, lighter, etc).  Fun! I love it. I may hate it tomorrow, but I’m loving it right now.

So yeah, before and after.  What do you think? I know of at least one person who’s going to like the original better. *ahem.  Looking at it, I probably could’ve eased up on the contrast a tad. meh.

I need a name for it.  I keep thinking Route66, but that might be just because of the photos.  Or the fact that I’d rather be driving there than here?

A few more from today (click through to view larger on flickr).  I still need to upload the rest …

I processed all of them with that preset. The only thing I opened PS for was the watermark. One of these days I’ll learn a quicker way to do that.

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