[pure-silver] Re: odd, old split-toned (?) print
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:33:51 +0100
Can you scan and send it?
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 12/17/04 10:29 PM, "Jeffrey Krenzel" <jkrenzel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a "how do you do it?" question regarding an old
> photograph of my wife's grandfather. The print was
> taken/made in Budapest, probably in the 1920's or
> 1930's.
>
> The print shows an older man standing next to a river
> and dressed in a suit and holding gloves, a briefcase
> and a newspaper in one hand and a cigarette in the
> other.
>
> The print is a 2-inch square, glossy that looks like
> it was sepia toned apart from his gloves, hat and
> suit, which appear to retain a full range of grays.
> The warm toned face and hands makes it looks very much
> like a color photograph, which is what my wife always
> thought it was. His cold toned gloves are held in his
> sepia toned hand and and drape over his sepia toned
> briefcase. The only pure whites (although it is hard
> to tell as it is a dirty print) are his cigarette and,
> perhaps, his newspaper.
>
> It looks split toned, but I don't see how that would
> have been accomplished as there appear to be no
> significant differences in the densities of the warm
> toned areas and the cold toned areas. If I were going
> to reproduce the look of this print I would mask parts
> of it with rubber cement and then sepia tone the rest
> of it. Alternatively, I would use a small brush to
> paint on bleach in selected areas to limit the toning
> process, but I have difficulty imagining that anyone
> would have gone to the trouble of using either of
> these methods for a small snapshot, as opposed to a
> posed portrait.
>
> TIA for any enlightment.
>
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