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I’m starting to go waaaaay back into the Lipka Photographic Archives to find images for my “other blog,” The Daily Photograph. I’m going so far back in time I’m actually looking at large format negatives made in the last century! (Hey, now, that’s the twentieth century there, buckaroos. I’m not all that old. Okay, maybe a little bit old. But I try not to think that way. At least I digress like an old timer.)
Anyway, I am really enthusiastic about this latest foray into my photographic history, because of the large number of usable images I can digitize and share on the internet. Back in those old timey days there was a real (and expensive) cost associated with exposing a large piece of film. We took care with our composition and exposure because we didn’t want to “waste" film and waste time, effort and money to create a good photographic print. The default position was to make technically great photographs of traditional subjects. The downside to the process was the compositions were rarely “grab shots,” experimental or avant garde.
We would not spend time or effort on anything less than the absolute “killer shot” from any time we photographed. There were a lot of very good images that never made it past the proof sheet stage (if we even made a proof sheet). Some of these really good images are now waiting to be digitized and become A Daily Photograph.
Tonally inverted, cropped ,sharpened, and generally made so much nicer. A 5x7 negative that really looks good on the internet.
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