She Has A Wistful, Faraway Look
Jan 30, 2023 10:33:16 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Cany143 wrote:
Long story short: a friend asked if I'd fix a fami... (show quote)
I think there’s a world of difference between the two. Your work has brought the subjects alive. The finished image has more depth and the added contrast adds life to the image.
Stan
Jan 30, 2023 11:08:07 #
Cany143 wrote:
The bearded, seated gentleman bit it off somewhere between my thirty-seventh and my fifty-first iteration of the image. Which should surprise no one, myself included. He has a kind of ear-biter/axe murderer quality to him, wouldn't you say?
Beyond that, I don't know if he chewed her ear up and swallowed it or spat it out while I wasn't looking, and until you asked, I hadn't thought to inquire.
Beyond that, I don't know if he chewed her ear up and swallowed it or spat it out while I wasn't looking, and until you asked, I hadn't thought to inquire.
An early ancestor of Mike Tyson's?
Jan 30, 2023 11:17:02 #
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Very nicely done. The town where the studio was located, Warren, Mass. Is about a fifteen minute ride from my home.
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Jan 30, 2023 18:35:36 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
DickC wrote:
VERY!!! nice Jim!! Hozhoni 
Ya-ta-& thanx, Dick. She's a wistful, faraway lookin' woman, indeed. Regardless, still need to do something about the ear-biter portion of this interpretive restoration/re-creation.
Maybe have him holding an axe or something? (Though what seems particularly worth doing at this point is to maybe photoshop him into wearing a ZZTop t-shirt under his waistcoat.)
Then convert the image into a soft-ishly-pigmented Mary Cassatt style sort of pastel-ed rendering? I dunno. We'll see. Stay tuned....
Jan 30, 2023 18:51:34 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
radiojohn wrote:
Sometimes corrected of very old photos in color end up looking a bit M3hgan.
Hmm. Haven't seen the flick (M3hgan) yet. Does it take place in the 1890's?
Watched this flick called "Vengeance" yesterday evening, and I heartily recommend it. Damn near as good --though in an entirely different way-- as "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" that I watched the evening before.
The subtitles (in "Bardo") were a little wonky, though.
Jan 30, 2023 19:12:59 #
I say something more interpretive for sure and as a full-on compliment! Someplace there should be a photo competition for before/after processing. Blue Ribbon here!
Jan 30, 2023 19:23:34 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Stash wrote:
Very nicely done. The town where the studio was located, Warren, Mass. Is about a fifteen minute ride from my home.
Been through there a time or three, Stash, back in the olden days. (Stash? STASH? Still know a law-dog or two up around there; would you suggest I have a platoon or two of 'em stop by your place? Maybe around 3am or so? That's purely rhetorical, of course. You and I both know they'd be hard pressed to vacate the local CrispyKreme donut emporium before 5 or 6am, much less want to put on all their tactical gear --what with their powdered sugar encrusted fingers and all--, not to mention the sugar-induced willies they'd definitely be experiencing at that hour, so no worries.) Its pleasant country, and prime real estate for a deserted and decrepit old photo studio.
Jan 30, 2023 21:29:50 #
Jan 30, 2023 21:55:06 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Susan yamakawa wrote:
Is that Sepa treatment
Resorting back to my --should I mention my high-fallutin' Yale University b&w darkroom days? No, to do that I'd just end up sounding like some vapid "decades long, multi-multi award winning, world-traveled Professor of Ptfoggery who delights in tooting My Own Horn (excessively)" sort of doofus, and how egotistical would that be?-- previous life, I prefer not to. But nevertheless, I'd guess that the original print (that's sitting here on my workstation desk) had been lightly treated with sepia (there are degrees, after all). In any event, many such studio shot portrait cartes --typically contact prints made from 5" x 7" (or whatever) film and/or glass plate images from the turn of the (previous) century I'd seen and worked with-- had been processed that way.
So yeah, I'd bet that it had been more or less sepia-ed, when it was initially printed. An aspect of the original that in this instance I rather liked, and decided to echo and maintain for 'historic' and aesthetic purposes.
Jan 30, 2023 22:16:05 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
srg wrote:
An early ancestor of Mike Tyson's?
An ancestor? Definitely not.
More like a precursor, or maybe an instructor.
Jan 30, 2023 22:21:10 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Cany143 wrote:
An ancestor? Probably not.
More like a precursor, or maybe an instructor.
More like a precursor, or maybe an instructor.
Wut???
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