Meckimac.com Photography

Below pictures are a collection from a recent trip to the Six Flags Great Adventure Park in Jackson, NJ.

One of the pictures even made it to the front page of Flickr’s Explore and I thought I’m going to show the original version (Aperture calls it the Master) of that image just to show the capabilities of Aperture and its Plugins.

I recently went to the battlefields of Gettysburg, PA and found a statue of General Warren that overlooking Little Round Top.

I wanted to make that picture look like it was taken back in the days of the Civil War in the 19th century.

This was the original picture straight from the camera (RAW file conversion into JPG):

unedited version

I loaded it into Apple Aperture 2 and sent it to Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro to convert it into a black and white image with added grain.

The next step was to add the scratches in Photoshop CS4 using the brush tool on a new layer (~75% Opacity). I found a few great brushes – just google for “scratch brush Photoshop” and you will get what you need.

The end result came out like this: