Just Experimenting

[KJ_North]

So I took this photo last year at a Pioneer Village. Today I played around with making a few vintage versions of it. So I attached the original photo and a few fun artistic versions of it.

 

[cgw143 168]

I vote for #4. Almost-ambrotype look. Maybe more contrast/highlight taming on the chapel facade? That hearse...Composition is striking.
So many trying for an early wet plate look go for too much glow/soft focus. Friends who shoot large format astound me with the sharpness of some antique process shots. One is doing daguerreotypes--hardcore mercury vapor stuff, silver-plated copper plates.
You might enjoy these--utter magic...

 

[KJ_North]

I vote for #4. Almost-ambrotype look. Maybe more contrast/highlight taming on the chapel facade? That hearse...Composition is striking.
So many trying for an early wet plate look go for too much glow/soft focus. Friends who shoot large format astound me with the sharpness of some antique process shots. One is doing daguerreotypes--hardcore mercury vapor stuff, silver-plated copper plates.
You might enjoy these--utter magic...

Thanks so much

 

[Jeff1574 74]

All good for me ...