Sweet Mary Jane
by ThingFish

Comment by noraneko:
LOL, well, I can definitely see this for sale in a head shop. Bump.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by Neat:
I really liked the processing thought it suit the photo well.

Congrats on the HM.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by ThingFish:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: FWIW, if you'd entered the outtake as is instead of the doctored one you went with, you'd have had a 9 from me instead of a 6. I don't think the processing helped you at all. To the degree that you scored well, IMO, it's because the *perfect-for-the-challenge* subject overcame the overwrought processing...

Cool thanks for the feedback Robert, I appreciate it and I learned something from it too. I must stop getting too enthusiastic with my processing...that old adage still holds true...most times less is more 😎

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by Bear_Music:
FWIW, if you'd entered the outtake as is instead of the doctored one you went with, you'd have had a 9 from me instead of a 6. I don't think the processing helped you at all. To the degree that you scored well, IMO, it's because the *perfect-for-the-challenge* subject overcame the overwrought processing...

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by ThingFish:

Originally posted by bassbone: I imagine the yellow tone of the image was pretty off putting for some voters rather than anything nefarious.

Yeah maybe you are right but the difference in participant scores vs non-participants scores suggests otherwise. But I got some really lovely comments that make up for that and actually those comments mean a lot more then the score to me.
Anyway I specially chose that style as it was quite prominent during the 19th century in the Wild West and was called "Albumen Print" and I wanted to recreate that look. Egg whites were used to achieve that look. Here is a link to how it was done. Very interesting:
Quote"To create albumen prints, paper was floated in a mixture of fermented chloride and egg white, dried and then floated on a solution of silver nitrate. The paper would then be placed in a frame in direct contact with the negative. Sunlight was used during the exposure process. Albumen can sometimes be one of the easier print formats to identify in our holdings. Image tones will sometimes change towards yellow brown with yellow highlights due to deterioration."Unquote

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/05/14/19th-century-photographic-processes-and-formats/

Message edited by author 2024-11-11 14:47:16.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by bassbone:
I imagine the yellow tone of the image was pretty off putting for some voters rather than anything nefarious.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by Barroness:
Nice presentation of this twisted tree trunk.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by tnun:
outstanding, the tree and the photo. you have a great feel for the tonalities.

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by colorcarnival:
What a pretty tree

Twisted Deadwood
by ThingFish

Comment by GolferDDS:
I like the processing. Feels like the old time West.