I decided to use this photo below to try and develop into something that resembles the above photos because I imagined that it may turn out quite well. In retrospective I think I could have chosen a more suitable image, but still, this shows my understanding of knowledge well so it will have to do.
To start off, I decided to convert to monochrome using the channel mixer so that I could also change the lightness and darkness of each colour in the image. I then darkened the edges to try and imitate the vignetting effect that comes with using a pinhole camera, to do this I made an elliptical selection using the marquee tool and inverted the selection, not forgetting to feather the selection so that whatever I did to the image would blend in well. I then darkened the edges using the Brightness/contrast tool.
To create that traditional pin hole style shot I thought it would be best to add some blur to the outer edges using a similar elliptical selection before and the Lens Blur filter.
To add film grain to the image I added the film grain filter to a new layer which was already filled with 50% gray and set the layer properties to "overlay" and decreased the opacity of the layer a fair bit since the original result was a bit too intense.
I think that I managed to imitate the traditional images rather well but my technique could use a little bit of tweaking in areas to make it look authentic.
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