Baseball Card Relics older than a T-Rex Discovered!

[Bigdaddy]

That is really cool. I love the creative side of the hobby - cards that never were, mixed media displays, old and new technology brought together, etc.

Thanks not only for showing the finished product, but also for the backstory.

[Casey2296]

I've been missing a good Tanner post, thank you.

[Michael B]

You could easily get a 16x20 from that negative and it would look quite nice. I have 50-60 glass plate negatives. Most are in the 4x6 range. My largest is 7x9! That one could easily make a 3' x 5' print with sharp clarity. If you are interested in making larger prints try Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA. I have used them for my processing. They can take digital files and make silver gelatin prints from them. They are very good and used by quite a few pro photographers.

https://digitalsilverimaging.com/

[ChasingPaper]

What a great read that was. Thank you for this and peaking my interest even more into these relics of baseball card history.

[abothebear]

Amazing work with the photoshop inversion. Super cool.

[brianp-beme]

I suggest you buy all of these Old Judge glass plate negatives you can get a hold of and create a set of these New Judge cards...they are amazing. Impressive work!

Brian

[mouschi]

Guys, thank you all so much for the kind words. I'm very happy to hear that some folks have connected well with this!

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

That is really cool. I love the creative side of the hobby - cards that never were, mixed media displays, old and new technology brought together, etc.

Thanks not only for showing the finished product, but also for the backstory.

Thanks for reading and commenting! I know I mentioned it at the end of the article already, but I'm not done with them yet! I hope to do some other fun things with them. The problem is finding time. It would be perfection ... almost ... if every day had 72 hours in them!

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I've been missing a good Tanner post, thank you.

Thanks for reading and commenting! It has been a long time for sure. I was planning on writing something up a year ago - that's how crazy/messed up life has been.

Originally Posted by Michael B

You could easily get a 16x20 from that negative and it would look quite nice. I have 50-60 glass plate negatives. Most are in the 4x6 range. My largest is 7x9! That one could easily make a 3' x 5' print with sharp clarity. If you are interested in making larger prints try Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA. I have used them for my processing. They can take digital files and make silver gelatin prints from them. They are very good and used by quite a few pro photographers.

https://digitalsilverimaging.com/

Wow, that is quite the collection! I missed out on the original 1915 Cracker Jack Walter Johnson glass plate negative - that one hurt. I was really wanting it. But yeah, I suspect I can go even larger than 16x20 with these, though I may need some photoshop help as well. If I had unlimited wall space, I'd try to do a human sized one ... hmmmm *wheels in my head start turning

Originally Posted by CardboardandCrackerjacks

What a great read that was. Thank you for this and peaking my interest even more into these relics of baseball card history.

That's one of the greatest things I can hear after someone reads what I write, thank you!

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I suggest you buy all of these Old Judge glass plate negatives you can get a hold of and create a set of these New Judge cards...they are amazing. Impressive work!

Brian

Oh goodness, I wish I could! I love ALL of them.

[ejharrington]

Great post Tanner, I love crystal clear photography.

[Chris-Counts]

I tip my cap to you, Tanner. That's the most entertaining and informative thing I've read here in a while.

[BobC]

Mouschi/Tanner,

Great stuff, love the look of those enhanced Old Judge images. The image clarity is just stunning!

Along those lines, have a serious question for you. Have you ever thought of trying to do something like this with a Magic Lantern Slide? Not exactly the same as a glass plate negative, but again, dealing with an image on glass, and not paper. So, I assume the images may still be much sharper, clearer, and undamaged, after more than 100 years than if they were all on paper. Would be really interested to see if you could do a similar zoom or expansion of Magic Lantern Slide images, and if they could look anything similar to how those OJ glass plate negative images turned out for you. If you could blow-up some of these Magic Lantern Slide images with even a somewhat similar clarity to these glass negative images, I think that could result in some great images also. Just a thought outside the box.

[BobC]

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