I specially chose this style of processing as it was quite prominent during the 19th century in the Wild West and was called "Albumen Print and they used egg whites in the processing. I wanted to try and recreate that look. Here is a link to how it was done. Very interesting:
Quote"To create albumen prints, paper was floated in a mixture of fermented chloride and egg white, dried and then floated on a solution of silver nitrate. The paper would then be placed in a frame in direct contact with the negative. Sunlight was used during the exposure process. Albumen can sometimes be one of the easier print formats to identify in our holdings. Image tones will sometimes change towards yellow brown with yellow highlights due to deterioration."Unquote
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/05/14/19th-century-photographic-processes-and-formats/
Outtake for which I used normal processing with a sepia tone:
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FWIW, if you'd entered the outtake as is instead of the doctored one you went with, you'd have had a 9 from me instead of a 6. I don't think the processing helped you at all. To the degree that you scored well, IMO, it's because the *perfect-for-the-challenge* subject overcame the overwrought processing...
Cool thanks for the feedback Robert, I appreciate it and I learned something from it too. I must stop getting too enthusiastic with my processing...that old adage still holds true...most times less is more 😎
FWIW, if you'd entered the outtake as is instead of the doctored one you went with, you'd have had a 9 from me instead of a 6. I don't think the processing helped you at all. To the degree that you scored well, IMO, it's because the *perfect-for-the-challenge* subject overcame the overwrought processing...
I imagine the yellow tone of the image was pretty off putting for some voters rather than anything nefarious.
Yeah maybe you are right but the difference in participant scores vs non-participants scores suggests otherwise. But I got some really lovely comments that make up for that and actually those comments mean a lot more then the score to me.
Anyway I specially chose that style as it was quite prominent during the 19th century in the Wild West and was called "Albumen Print" and I wanted to recreate that look. Egg whites were used to achieve that look. Here is a link to how it was done. Very interesting:
Quote"To create albumen prints, paper was floated in a mixture of fermented chloride and egg white, dried and then floated on a solution of silver nitrate. The paper would then be placed in a frame in direct contact with the negative. Sunlight was used during the exposure process. Albumen can sometimes be one of the easier print formats to identify in our holdings. Image tones will sometimes change towards yellow brown with yellow highlights due to deterioration."Unquote
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