Original negatives

[71buc]

Ben,
I was watching that Ruth as well. It certainly found a nice home. Great pick up. I have purchased a few negatives. Nothing as significant as that Ruth. I obtained a Brace neg of Sam Hairston and a few news paper negatives.

I had always wondered what a modern lab could do with them. A couple of weeks ago I took them to a local photo lab and asked that they be printed in a dark room rather than digitally. It was expensive but worth the time and efffort. Did your Ruth come in an glassine envelope? My Brace neg came that way. The news photos all came in a small manilla paper sleve with a slip of notes that were to appear on the slug.

[kdixon]

Zach.

[Runscott]

Ben, I'm fairly sure you just picked up the original negative to your Type I photograph - great score!

Your print was made by straightening out the negative like this:

[GKreindler]

Great pick-up on the Ruth, Ben. Any idea whether the dark clouds behind Ruth appear on the negative? I would assume it was one of Burke's tricks to augment Ruth's silhouette. Very cool.

Mike, I LOVE that shot of Minnie. It would also make a killer painting!

I bought this one a few years ago for a steal. Well, sort of.



Since it has the unfortunate crack basically running through Ruth's face, I don't think anyone even wanted to touch it. But, I figured that in order to do a painting of it, all I would have to do is reconstruct his face using any of the 1000s of photographs of the great man. Granted, it doesn't 'fix' the original, but I guess that wasn't a huge concern for me.

So, I ended up only paying $100, which may seem like a lot for something so damaged, but I definitely thought it was worth the money in order to make a cool painting of a moment that few have ever seen before.

Graig

[drc]

Photographers use and have used both negatives and transparencies to make photographic prints. Transparencies are the same as negatives but the image is positive (normal). Many photographers make slides (transparencies in cardboard holders) to both keep on record and make photographic prints. Transparencies and slides can be easy to date due to format/text/design on the film and/or slide holder.

Just because I have them at hand, these are two of my favorite negatives (made positive to show). They're Karl Lagerfeld photos of Danish model Helena Christensen, shot for his fashion catalog. Lagerfeld shot all of the photos for his catalogs.

[Runscott]

Ben, I've straightened and superimposed part of the inverse of the negative over the print.

They are the same.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Ben, I've straightened and superimposed part of the inverse of the negative over the print.

They are the same.

Scott... now this is funny as just before I posted it I thought to myself(could this be the same image just turned?). I was in a hurry and too lazy to ck at the time. Thank you very much for pointing this out! Pretty cool I have both now.

[mybestbretts]

Great find Ben!

[mybestbretts]

Ben, great find