Re: Victorian Roundup Photos

Dan Markoff Wrote:
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> . . .  I suggest if we are going to be recreating
> scenes, then only wet plate black & white box
> cameras should be used. That way, the image
> will be preserved exactly as it was in the 19th
> century and everyone can participate in recre-
> ating historically accurate images.  My 2 Cents.


But . . .  But . . .  Dan -

As Earl has pointed out more than once previously, there will ALWAYS be something that will give such a photo away as being a Phraud-O-Graph™.  Certainly a warm-tone B&W image (such as those of the WW&F posted over the past several months by Stewart Rhine) evokes a much different and more authentically histœrical feeling than a full-color shot (especially an over-saturated one), but it's like that old parable of getting halfway there, and then half of the remaining distance, and then half of that – ad infinitum.  You'll never QUITE get there!

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2020 11:59AM by Russo Loco.