Melbourne Arts Precinct

[Grumpy John]

A few images from around Melbourne's Arts Precinct.

#1 I love this spiral staircase beside the Melbourne Art Centre and always take a photo when I'm in the area.


#2 Melbourne Music Vault, a great collection of the history of the Melbourne music scene. The Tote




#3 Hamer Hall.

[Isac]

All excellent images John. Good treatment on the staircase - nice grunge look (Nik?). I love the posters/signs. Fabulous colourful reflections in the Hamer Hall shot.

[Grumpy John]

Thanks for having a look and commenting Isac. Yep NIK Silver Efex, I couldn't get the look I was after with a B/W layer. I'll have another crack at a later date. There isn't much colour to work with in the original image.

[Isac]

Nik did a good job but much more fun doing it with your own adjustment layers. You can create the same effect using a B&W adj layer and hen adding film grain and a curves adj layer to get the tones right. I have written a film grain action if you want to use it. Let me know. If you send the original I'll see if I can get a similar effect without Nik.

[Grumpy John]

It's on the way, you should have it by the time I finish typing this reply

[Isac]

Did my best. A bit different than NIK (I didn't include the frame) but still added some film grain to give it the grunge look, highlighting the bright areas. All good fun

[wigz]

Good set here John and I really like #1 and I prefer it to Isac's version, I think the higher contrast works better here.

[Grumpy John]

Thanks Alan, as I commented in the OP I like these steps and always get a shot of them whenever I'm in the area.

[K1W1]

I see that you managed to sneak in a selfie in pic 3.

[Grumpy John]

Not sure where you mean K1W1, if your talking about the guy in the hi-vis that's not me, I was rearing a brown pullover.