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Offline Angie_H

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Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« on: September 10, 2004, 04:46:33 PM »

"The Camera & The Tsars" says this picture was altered and Tsarina MA was added to it. I saw this pic on eBay and I think it was too. It's of AII, MA, AIII & MF
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6118103324

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Re: Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2004, 04:55:00 PM »
I just saw that today in Little Mother Russia. I don't know how they did that! As much as I like pics I probably would not buy one on ebay.
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Re: Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2004, 05:28:23 PM »
Composite photos were pretty popular back then, maybe because it was so hard to gather everyone together or maybe photographers just did it themselves because of the lax copyright laws. I have several cabinet cards of QV and her family from the early 1860s until the mid-1880s (and beyond that to EdVII & GV) where they've obviously taken individual photos from separate sittings and re-photographed them to make it look like it was a group sitting. Sometimes it's hard to tell, unless you know some of the original sittings, other times it's SO obvious.  :)
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Re: Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2004, 07:14:17 PM »
GrandDuchessElla I know the one you mean with QV, Albert & their children. That was so obvious!  ::) It wasn't a photo but a collage! But the one I posted where MA was added it says in the book you can tell it was added by the way the light falls on her face from the right where as on everyone else it falls from the left.
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Re: Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2004, 10:30:02 PM »
Yes, plus that is one of the most familiar poses of MA (with the hand up to her chin). It appears in various forms everywhere. I wonder if that's because she was photographed less and less as her health worsened? Believe me, there are quite a few of the QV ones and they are SO FAKE! You really don't have to be an expert on lighting or anything to tell.  :) It must've been a cheap way to distribute multiple images--I have some postcard (not CDV or cabinet card) images as well from the period of Edward VII so it wasn't just because of limitations of photography back in the 'old days'. I enjoy them though--it's fun to match the people with the settings they were originally taken in!
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Re: Photo Editing in the 19th Century
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2005, 08:42:08 PM »
It's also fun to edit photos in Paint.
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