I have been experimenting with a texture layer, Aged Photo Effect texture, that was created by Jerry Jones at Shadowhouse Creations. ( His textures and other file sets are free.) The result was interesting. I added a bit of extra stuff of my own to the mix and used it with a recent photograph. I guess there is something ironic in how we use imaging software, like PaintShop Pro or Photoshop to fix-up old photographs and age new digital photographs to give them character.
My second experiment eventually led to just using some of my own textures in a different way. The result has a plastic camera quality. It goes well with the plastic solar dragonfly.
The current fascination with plastic cameras and the Hipstamatic camera app also fits into this trend. We seem to be using the 21st century technology to rediscover and explore the 20th century. This also fits in with how the Steampunk genre of speculative fiction has grown into an aesthetic techno-fashion ( for some it has become a life-style –even in Canada. )
Click the steampunk camera for more information.
Steampunk computers from The Steampunk Workshop.
Dark Pines Photo 