Civil War reenactments are popular from Spring through Fall
held in many towns and cities in the U.S.
The one I attended was sponsored by the Lombard Historical Society at
the Four Seasons Park in Lombard Illinois.
There were artillery demos, skirmishes, battles, drills, plus the encampments
of the rebels and union soldiers.
These events are a photographic delight, a challenge, and
loads of fun! Both woman and men wore
period costumes. What was really cool, is the actors did not pose for any of
the shots. They just went about their
business as if you weren’t there. That
made images more authentic looking.
Rebels on a march
The best part is left to the last. Post processing all the images by adding
layers and converting to black and white with sepia and other tones, scratches,
and other effects to give the image a period effect.
Naval escort for Abe
The Navy making plans for the day
GIMP is open-source and free. It does a decent job of replicating Photoshop’s recomposing and manipulating your photos, applying effects, and cropping and resizing images. GIMP supports editing PSD files, and its arsenal of tools: Filters, brush tools, text tools, layers, distortion and color-correction tools, cropping, resizing, and effects options. GIMP doesn’t match up to Adobe’s editing software when it comes to advanced features and color management but does have a selection of plug-ins including content-aware painting (removing strange objects) and RAW support.
Officers have their privileges
family, servants and kids
Portraits of individuals doing what they do best, posing.
Cyberlink PhotoDirector has features similar to Lightroom
providing tools to make raw conversions and process JPEGs, TIFFs, and PNGs, layers,
cloning tools, HDR, presets to apply effects and more. Cyberlink PhotoDirector will import up to 4K
(UHD) video to capture still images, and create panoramas. The best part of course is it is very
affordable from $35 on Amazon.com.
Those black powder
rifles are awesome
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