Old School

I was looking through a website of New Zealand photography and I was wondering what filters or settings (or film if that's the case)that is used for some styles of the photos that were on there. Its a look that you see around sometimes especially in fashion magazines or those odd mags where people are just lying around and doing weird things (arty types of mags I think, anyway I don't understand them).
So I typed into Google 'how do you make photos look old' and the first thing that came up was the technique I was looking for. Although it wasn't a photography technique at all...
Actually it started off with a cheap Russian made camera called a Lomo. It would take photos that looked a bit different (especially when the film was developed in the wrong chemical). It was a bit of a craze to do this in the 90's.
Apart from using one of those cameras the effect can be created by using (you guessed it!) Photoshop. Yay! And it's really easy too.

Here's the tutorial I followed....

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photograph

And here's some examples of the technique...


This was my first attempt using a picture I took while taking photos for the 2010 Auckland Photography competition a few weeks ago...




This is a photo Mel took of Natalie which I experimented on...



Here's a mushroom I took when I was at the Arboretum...



I still need some more practice with my own settings so the photos aren't too bright or whatever the case may be. I reckon a warming filter would give it an older look...