Posted 8 years ago
rniederman
(343 items)
It’s the first day of spring (20 March). Grab a camera, get together with friends and take pictures! (Selfies count.)
It's not a new tradition and photography outings go back a long way. My guess is amateur photographers started getting together shortly after the invention of smaller, portable wet-collodion cameras. The earliest reference (ephemera) in my collection is the story of an 1856 photographic tour of Milan, Italy.
This advertising card for Anthony’s Improved Champion camera is very unusual because it portrays five men leisurely posing with three tripod mounted field view cameras. Traditional advertising cards typically depict beautiful images of scenic landscapes, architecture and formal portraits. What’s even odder is none of the cameras look like Anthony equipment. And the image quality is only fair.
Anyhow, the location looks serenely exotic and reminds me it is time to start going outside, enjoy the warmer spring weather and take pictures of stuff!
Thanks, blunderbuss2!
It's an amusing photo - they look quite foppish and not at all workman like.
One is having a good time!
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AnnaB
SpiritBear
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vetraio50
racer4four ... foppish indeed!
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Manikin
Caperkid
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David
fortapache
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Michael
bottle-bud
Thanks, shughs!
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gargoylecollector
kyratango
Thanks, Sean!
your very welcome Rob and Happy Easter!!
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Chevelleman69
Longings
Beachbum58
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trukn20
sugargirl
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farmlady
egreeley1976
Thanks, Radegunder!
Thanks, MyFavoriteTreasures!
You're welcome; My family has an old photograph that is fading fast, becoming very hard to see anything; gentleman and his puppy are sitting in a horse-drawn buggy; I'm thinkin' 1800's. Any suggestions to salvaging? (And keeping from continued deterioration and fading? It stays in a dark drawer right now.) If I can get a good pic of it, I'll post. We actually have a whole lot of old family photos (and tins) to go through; just haven't had time to see about it yet.
Hi MyFavoriteTreasures. Once an image starts degrading there's not much you can do except for keeping it in a dark place. My suggestion is to shoot a high quality digital copy. You can then do a digital restoration.
Regarding tintypes, according to a friend who is a master collodion photographer and restoration expert, there's nothing that can be done to fix images that have cracked or peeled from the base metal. Years ago he tried to salvage an historically omportant image that was separating from the metal plate. He ended up making a high quality copy of the image.
Thanks rniederman! We have so very much work to do; my brother purchased my grandparents' home (born 1880, and 1886 respectively) and alot of their belongings and furnishings remain in the home (home built in 1894 purchased by my grandparents in 1916). (If you care to have a look, "Still Learning" is my brother's account here, we will be adding much more in the coming months.)
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/168961-great-grandparents-portraits-and-frames?in=171
Thanks again, Manikin!
Thanks, Trey!
Thanks, Kerry!
Thanks, Nicefice!
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Manikin
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