The Great Movie Ride's gangster sequence makes you feel like you are in a 1930's or 1940's film noir movie...so I figured it begged for exactly that kind of treatment in post processing. ; Film noir style was usually a dramatic, shadowy B&W, with shallow DOF, glossy highlights, and dreamy overwashed film style (it could be done in color too...just ask Hitchcock). ; I used some PSP plugins, along with some levels tweaking and selective gaussian layer blur and sharpening, to try to achieve that dreamy ominous tone: Comments or critique welcome.
nice gangster feel, definitely better imho as black and white i grew up in a black and white film world, longer than most simply because my parents never replaced a tv until it was beyond repair, i even remember the old oval screen philmont
Thank you both. ; I worked out a PSP process for B&W before I got the Nik Silver plugin...and would play around with it trying to achieve various effects like this. ; I could probably do something similar with the plugins now with just a few clicks!
Indeed! ; You could definitely go noir style on a train. ; Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" and "Murder on the Orient Express" were both noir style films.
Very nice! ; If I didn't know it was from TGMR I would think I was seeing a still from a vintage 1929 Hollywood flick!
