Help reproducing 1940's style

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Firstly i am sorry if this is in the wrong area Mods please move if needed.

Okay i am going to go to a 1940s weekend and take some photo's of people i know who do living history ie WW2, and i would like to try to process the photo's as close to the ww2 look as possible in both color and black and white.

I have Elements10-lightroom4 and my uncle says i can go round and use Alienskin exposure4 or my mate has offerd to help with a program he has called silver effects, so i have a choice of software that may be helpful.

Has anyone used any of these software choices to get a really good ww2/1940's look to a photo? And if so could you give me any guidance please?

Thanks for any help.:)
 
You could do it the authentic way and just shoot on film?
 
Most of the photos taken then were shot on medium format box brownie type cameras, although there were some 35mm about, so think about using a 50mm lens on full frame, or about 30mm on a crop sensor, most photos were posed and tended to be a little on the soft side for ordinary everyday cameras with vignetting in the corners, colour films were few and far between and expensive.
 
I've only done it in Photoshop and pretty much every image needs its own tweaks. I haven't got a standard set of actions as such.

The best thing to do is search youtube for vintage look, but you'll find most for for photoshop unfortunately. Although I guess some of the tips are transposable to your programmes.
 
Thanks all for taking the time to answer.
my Uncle has found a preset in his Exposure4 program for Kodachrome 35mm (1936-1962) with option to age and add vignetting etc, so i think i will start with that as a base then see where it goes .

so only the B&W to sort out.

Thanks again all.
 
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