Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I realize that a lot of things have always been possible--just look at Jerry Uelsman's (sp) work, all created in the wet darkroom. But *I* never did such things in the darkroom, and so will not do them in Photoshop either. Nathan SonC@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/30/2005 5:51:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > firkin@ncable.net.au writes: > > , but taking out or adding elements, or selectively > >>blurring them, is strictly Verboten. > > > > I may have told this story before, but here goes anyhow. Charles Bennett > was with the New Orleans Times-Picayune from the forties until the > sixties. He > told us several stories of the days when there actually were competing > newspapers in the US. > > The one I liked best was about this guy who would jump right in the middle > > of grip-and-grin shots and ribbon cuttings. His only claim to fame was > the > number of times he had been in the paper. > Charlie said they finally got disgusted with that, and shot an image of a > palm tree that they would insert over the guy before engraving. > > Another incident was a fairly prominent guy passed away, and they couldn't > > find a shot of him, so they bribed an assistant at the coroner's office, > propped the dead guy up at a desk, took a shot, then when they got back > and made a > print, painted his eyes open. > > Bur collection at the University has a lot of old newspaper shots. In > those, busy backgrounds were routinely painted out. So the range of what > might be > permissible as being able to do in a darkroom is probably much wider than > many of us imagine. > > > Regards, > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane > ?galit?, libert?, crawfish > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com