> > From: "Lucas Rijnders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/17 Fri AM 08:21:10 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: OT - So quiet in here > > Op Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:25:37 +0100 schreef Collin R Brendemuehl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> From: "Fernando Terrazzino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I have the feeling that today's activity dropped a notch (march > >> break?) so I thought about asking to the eldery members if this effect > >> makes photos look like when you first started photography ;o) > > > Want to improve them and really give them the "old" look? > > Take out the blue component first. Then convert. > > Plate and tin type emulsions had little or no blue sensitivity. > > There may be other fixes as well, but that comes to mind first. > > Hi, > > Last time I moved I went to an apartment in a building from the second > half of the 19th century. I wanted the adress card I sent friends and > relatives to have a photo that looked like it was taken when the building > was new. Since no original was available, I took a recent photo, cloned > out the obviously modern bits like cars and lamp-posts, desaturated > (probably would do that differently now) and reduced contrast quite a bit. > As far as I know, old film (or paper?) was not capable of recording lot of > contrast. I wouldn't know if it looked like a new photo from that time > would look, but it certainly fooled everyone I sent the card! > One other thing I notice: Old prints (say, beginning 20th century) often > do not have a full tonal range: There's black and dark grey, and a lot of > white. The middle to light grays seem to have bleached away. I think this > is an ageing effect. You could mimick that to make photo's look 'old and > worn'.
Not only an ageing effect. It was quite some time after the development of easy access photography before film was developed that reacted equally to all wavelengths of light. Part of the pleasure of interpreting old photographs is working out what is missing. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Regards, Lucas > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
