My late father-in-law had a portrait studio in the late 40s - early 50s,
where he shot portraits with a split 5x7 back on an 8x10 studio camera.
This gave him two 3 1/2 by 5 negatives on each sheet of film. My wife and
her mother exposed proofs by sunlight at the rear window. Customers were
cautioned that the proofs would be ruined if exposed to light for an
extended period. After the choices were made, he retouched the chosen
negatives using very sharp, hard pencils. He could remove zits, etc and
make beautiful portraits. We have a number of them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] 4-up display, was: Sagelight
> On 1/24/2012 8:57 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Deceit? No way! Doesn't matter if the client knows heads were swapped or
>> not. We're not talking about news shots, but portraits. If it's deceitful
>> to swap a head or eyeball, then it would be deceitful to do any editing.
>> It's not like were sucking 200 pounds off the person or taking an 80 year
>> old and giving them the wrinkles of an 8 year old.
>
> I forgot to mention that this is not new with digital, it's as old as
> photography. All formal portraits were retouched.
> Part of the difference in price between portraitists was based on the
> quality of retouching.
>
> Retouched Moose
>
> (Yup, I looked closely at the old family portraits. Some pretty sloppy
> fix-ups applied in many cases. A high school
> portrait of me has a glare in glasses correction that looks more like a
> spot of bird shit.)
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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