My photos today consisted of photographing pictures and cards in an old photo album I'd bought years ago on eBay. Not all being sharp images, I was curious to see what success I might have in processing some of them as I had yesterday.
I may possibly continue on this course a while longer as it takes me back to the collage and mixed media I did years ago, and I'm already considering the many uses and possibilities!
Did I mention I also love using text in my images?!
Such interesting processing Louise. I love how you are able to use all of those things and knowledge from your earlier hobby and create something new in a different medium.
@louannwarren Thanks, Lou Ann. These images were from a photo album with 1910 pictures in Iowa. I only chose her as it was the clearest , but she doesn't appear to be a happy camper! I'm happier with the way the house turned out using this technique!
@louannwarren it was a part of "holding still" so the picture wasn't blurred! Further back, when people had pictures taken in studios and we have what are called "Cabinet Cards", they had a get-up that held the head still as the exposure was being made. I suppose no one actually tried to hold a smile for that period of time!
@Weezilou I sure learned something today. Of course Mother said "Lou Ann, during the Great Depression we didn't have anything to smile about". The Victorian Age was long before the Depression but her early years were colored by that event so she blamed any perceived sadness on it.
@louannwarren Such an interesting comment from you, but not so surprising! I've collected cast-off photo albums for a number of years as I used the images in art work. I never destroyed an album, but scanned or photographed the pictures to use. I began by collecting the ones with formal cabinet cards, but quickly realized I enjoyed the 1910s with the lovely, all-white clothing styles, and people who could afford cameras were putting their pictures in albums. The 1920s were awesome because the young people were having fun posing, and images became light hearted. I was buying from the 30s when I quickly realized the whole demeanor of the people had changed. They didn't look happy and the clothing became plain and ordinary. So fascinating the things a series of photos will reveal! (As a point of reference, I was a fashion design major and was designing children's clothes in Dallas before our first daughter was born. When we moved to California I took a pass on designing, but always followed one muse or another in the art field.)
@skstein Thank you Sandy! I'm sorta hooked on it for the moment and I like the way images turnout! I'm guessing at it as I go along, but so far the results have been pleasing!
@francoise It's always fun when more than the two in the discussion can glean information from it all! I love the history of fashion, but when you can wrap it in photography, so much the better!
@golftragic Marnie, probably more credit than I deserve, but thank you for the kind words. If I can entertain and please the eye with what I attempt, than I'm happy to have struck a chord!
@annied I love, Annie, that you struck upon something that's so important to me in my work! I love to "hint at wording", keeping it a bit enigmatic and hinting at the storyline. It has so many uses in art, and I love text as texture, too!
@kwind @tunia Kim and Tunia, thanks so much!
@francoise It's always fun when more than the two in the discussion can glean information from it all! I love the history of fashion, but when you can wrap it in photography, so much the better!
@golftragic Marnie, probably more credit than I deserve, but thank you for the kind words. If I can entertain and please the eye with what I attempt, than I'm happy to have struck a chord!
@annied I love, Annie, that you struck upon something that's so important to me in my work! I love to "hint at wording", keeping it a bit enigmatic and hinting at the storyline. It has so many uses in art, and I love text as texture, too!