[pure-silver] Re: Skies
- From: "EJ Neilsen" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:06:29 -0500
Richard, Perhaps it is good to be a bit older. These days I am asked to add
body parts, nip and tuck, swap heads, reduce breast, enlarge breast, redress
the people in different cloths, just about every possible change to a
photography possible. I started in a portrait studio watching the owner
apply oils to photographs and oh what a difference it made.
A simple burning of a sky, pales in comparison to reconstructing a body.
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
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> From: "Shannon Stoney" <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:46 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Skies
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>
> These look fishy to me. But I guess I could just look at
> them as if
> they were Jerry Uelsmann pix.
>
> --shannon
>
> I find it interesting that the wheel has once again been
> re-invented. Multiple exposures, with and without masks, cut
> and paste, etc, are all as old as photography itself. The
> term "cut-and-paste" comes from the common practice in
> photomechanical reproduction of making the master by cutting
> and pasting the various elements, i.e., text, line drawings,
> photos, which were to appear on the printed page. These
> originals were usually called "paste-ups". In half tone work
> the emulsions of the process plates were often floated off,
> cut and assembled on a final plate for exposing the cuts.
> In motion pictures the use of "matte shots" is common.
> One of the first ways of doing this was to make a double
> exposure in the camera using a mask or matte for each to
> block out the part of the image to be added with the other
> exosure. Eventually, this was done in a printer but
> initially it was done in the camera to avoid additional
> generations. Movies also added forgrounds, backgrounds,
> skys, etc., with a method known as "glass shots" where the
> desired added image was painted on a large sheet of glass
> using semi-tranparent paint, and photographed against the
> scene it was to fill. If done right the depth of field woud
> be enough to cover up the difference in distance. While
> crude this method was used well into the 1940's and maybe
> even later.
> Of course, in the early days of photography all sort of
> dramatic scenes were assembled out of parts of different
> photos, I've drawn a blank on the name for this. In any
> case, while often considered to be not very respectable this
> sort of multiple photo has a long history. Digital image
> editors, like Photoshop, just make it easier to do (and
> maybe do badly).
> BTW, when I started out I used to add skys frequently.
> When there was a spactacular sky I went out and photographed
> it and put the negatives away for just this purpose.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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