Merry Olde England - Part 2

The Common Folk of the Faire

If I had my druthers, I'd rather be a common lass than a lady. ;) The costumes for the aristocrats are beautiful, but like Carley said, very hot.

Besides, the commoners seem to have a bit more fun. I mean if you are carrying not one, but TWO tankards for ale, I think you are anticipating a merry olde time, eh? Not to mention the ale flowing freely for the troops on the battlefield. ;)

The last of the Faire for a while, I think. I had great fun "painting pictures" of the Faire (as one lass said). :)

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For those of you who've asked how I do my black and white conversions, I'm not going to tell!

No, seriously. I use Tiffen DFX software. I think I've mentioned it before but it has tons of their filter effects that you can apply like a soft focus filter or a green filter, etc.

There are also "print" filters which give the look of certain printing processes. My favorite is Bleach Bypass (which I used on Ruby Slippers before the black & white conversion) and the Old Photo set. The Merry Olde England sets were converted to black and white with the Platinum filter in Old Photo. I then just made small contrast & gamma adjustments to it.

They have a free 15 day trial. It's a stand alone (how I use it) or a plug in for Photoshop & Apple Aperture. This is a list of the filters in the software.
Tiffen DFX