[pure-silver] Re: odd, old split-toned (?) print
- From: Jeffrey Krenzel <jkrenzel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:38:11 -0800 (PST)
Ralph,
I'm now travelling but I will do just that when I get
home in January.
Jeffrey
--- DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you scan and send it?
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> Regards
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> Ralph W. Lambrecht
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> 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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