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Julie VognarContrast--what you are after, in addition to clarity--is available in any colors the OJ comes in, as long as the dark is truly dark and the light is truly light. A few appropriate shadows don't hurt, either.
With modern photography, we would call a photograph with excellent contrast and clarity "perfectly exposed and focused,"--although there are a lot of things we can do to modern photographs, and even old ones, with modern equipment to correct imperfectly exposed--and to a lesser extent--imperfectly focused pictures.
Old Judges were photographed twice. Once to take the original picture of the single player, or two players, or player and mascot, or player and DOG. Then 25-30 of these individual photos were put in a block, with spaces between them, and re=photographed. The spaces between the photographs in the original set making the borders in the finished product, after the cards had been cut apart.
With no stop-action photography, glaring lights, a certain amount of immobility required in the player (or DOG), two photography sessions--I think we're lucky to have ANY Old Judges with good contrast and good focus...
The Pud Galvin has excellent focus and contrast (though there is a fault in the photograph--the white spot)-- but because of some drunken cutter, shows the lines that were to serve as guidelines for the cutter to cut along..but he didn't