Didn't we have this on here a few weeks back? Great photo anyway! From the size of the crowd we must have been playing someone like Man U. If it was them, I was there!
I love it, the old Chocolate boxe's in the Milton Stand, My Parents lived in the same block of flats overlooking the ground back in '76 when they moved down from Glasgow
I love the fact that you can see the Dell in it's former glory. Packed house in the sunshine. Also, you can clearly see the crains of the dockyard in the background. The docks are such an important feature of of Southampton and a big part of the heritage of the city.
It's not Paintshop wizardry. It's actually patient work. Here's an indicator of what I mean. These were never originally colour photos. Took me a couple of hours for each. Notice how one looks colder and the other one warm. That was deliberate. It was an exercise in manipulating colours and getting them to look as real as possible. Click on the thumbnails.
Yeah that was me, if anyone is interested here they are again! please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
How do you do it, clipping masks and colours with low opacity just layered on? With a bit of tweaking
Happy memories ,about 30 of my family would have been there in the choc box or behind the goal ,i was 10 then and maybe there too visiting ,as lived just north of london and no m25 in those days so was a 5 hour journey at least as we used to stop in windsor park for a picnic on the way,,as i said happy days
how things have changed , ive just remembered when we visited around that time a few lads kept swearing so my dad asked them to mind there language as there were womwn present ,,the lads turned on my dad and asked what he was going to do about it,,unbeknown to them my cousin was there ,6'4" royal marine ,he looked at them and said "my uncle will do nothing but you will end up over the wall in the milton road,,the whole crowd in the box laughed and the lads dissapeared,,still makes me smile
I saw your question about an hour ago, and I'd quite forgotten how I did mine. I had to go back and actually do some..! I have both Photoshop V.? and Paint Shop Pro V.8 and for what I do, I use PSP, which I find I have more control over, believe it or not. Yes, I mask off segments and then painstakingly select the right colour and opacity. I found out, many years ago, when doing B/W and Colour photography, that B/W photos have all the light and dark scale that one needs in a photograph [because that's all they are] and that the colour just needs to be added in the right way. Course, it's a good idea to know the right colour..! So you go cherry picking off other photographs of the same or similar subject matter, and save the data. For me, skin tones are the hardest, by a mile although once again, if you know your subject matter, it helps greatly. In the examples above, I know that Alan Ball was a pale faced bloke, being a bit on the ginger side. The previous examples of Ron Davies, that I've posted here, show him as quite tanned. Which, from memory is absolutely true. Ron made sure he got a fair bit of sun..! The other thing I do is look out of the window - literally. It's fantastic for getting away from cartoon colours, because real life isn't as vivid and colourful as a photograph, unless it is under artificial lights. And then it isn't natural anyway. Might have a go at the OP's photograph myself. See how real I can make it.
Here's another picture of the old home. This time in it's latter days. The new look Milton Road end is still one of the most unique looking stands in all of the country. I love the floodlight gantries on the West stand aswell - features like that brought so much character to the Dell. please log in to view this image
