Interesting Question (Well, to Me, Anyway!)

[Anomie]

[Thoughts in the studio on a cloudy November morning...]

As a guy whose background is in broadcasting and music, I'm am 100% technically convinced that in terms of audio, there is nothing analog (old) that cannot be duplicated fairly easily digitally (new).

I suspect that this is also the case with graphics and photo manipulation.

OK, so you have your chops in PS or Gimp (I don't!) Lemme axe you this:

Could you duplicate the modern wet-plate collodion photography of Isa Marcelli?

I've seen a lot of fairly crude attempts at this that sort of work, but I think you could pretty much nail a script for it with a little work. I'm pretty convinced that her original photos are somewhat digitally tweaked in any case -- but I could be mistaken.

 

[Genesis]

I'd be careful with publishing the tweaked photos, the owners of the photos can be touchy about that. But I'm sure you're right. My experience is with GIMP and there are plenty of YouTube tutorials and documentation that can show you how to manipulate photos with GIMP. But I'm sure our graphics specialist at Gigarank Aya could point you in the right direction. If you check through other threads in this forum she has been publishing very creative photo art and is a pro at it.

 

[Anomie]

I'd be careful with publishing the tweaked photos, the owners of the photos can be touchy about that.

Oh, these are all hers, taken in the past few years! They're not old.

But I'm sure you're right. My experience is with GIMP and there are plenty of YouTube tutorials and documentation that can show you how to manipulate photos with GIMP.

I don't personally want to mess with this as I hate doing photography (he said, after buying c.$1500 worth of photographic equipment last year). I was just thinking hypothetically. I was just wondering if anyone had actually tried this.

I've seen a bunch of Gimp scripts for Lomo, pinhole, etc. but, in true FOSS fashion, they quit long before they really got them finished.

 

[Yozora]

Oh yes, with Photoshop there are even plugins to make it quicker (scroll near the bottom) :
http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/exposure-examples/

 

[aya]

Could you duplicate the modern wet-plate collodion photography of Isa Marcelli

I'm confident I could do it to individual images but I don't know about scripts, beautiful photography @"Anomie" reminds me of JK Potter, he uses reflections from panes of glass & light to create stunning looking photographs