Thanks Charles,
It's an interesting comment that you would qualify
my posting this week as "extreme digital effect" since I am just inching into
digital cameras (as opposed to Photoshop). In fact, I was just trying
to step back to what is essentially at the root of photography: the
negative.
All of my work to now has been silver-based and,
since I do quite a bit of pinhole photography, I've developed a real liking for
paper negatives. In fact, a succesful (paper) negative image more often
than not will require a composition of its own.
While in India in the 1850-60's, Dr. John Murray
has created a interesting body of pictures, many of them only in the form of
waxed paper negatives. See for instance
The (imbalanced) composition suggests clearly that
these were supposed to be printed as positve images. However, there are
clearly some paper negatives that work very well as paper
negatives.
Another interesting negative image (from India
again, 1860's) was made on glas as a wet collodion negative by ED Lyon
See also
Guy
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