exweedfarmer

My faithful follower(s) will notice that many of my deviations have disappeared.  The artist to whom I owe the figures in these deviations was banned from DA for unknown reasons.  Subsequently, after submitting one of my deviations to a group it was rejected due to lack of proper citation as the source photo had been deleted.  To save anyone using my stock the same displeasure, I have deleted those works which incorporated parts of photos posted by the banned artist. As for the remaining three images marked "Stock": two are marked JA and are generally attributed to Jean Angelou.  It is unclear if Jean Angelou was a photographer or a studio o

Did you ever wonder why old pictures look like "old" pictures.  I've been studying on it and my current hypothesis is that it's all a matter of lighting.  The first use of studio lighting I could find was 1854 in London.  It didn't work very well.  This was before the tungsten incandescent of Edison in 1879.  The reason that the artificial lights didn't work very well for photography is that silver emulsions of the time didn't react to light the way the human eye does.  Light from a carbon arc light is very blue which made the photo overly contrasted while the red/yellow light from a tungsten bulb would under contrast.  That problem was corre

There's nothing sexy about these naked lady pictures.  The girls are pretty much all dead and that tends to put a damper on the old libido.  But they were beautiful for a moment. That moment was so long ago we can forgive them their occupation (the worlds oldest) and the thousand tiny missteps that may have lead them to it and focus on that beautiful blink of a shutter.  I may be taking liberties with that moment by coloring the models and placing them in weird backgrounds but one day I just may get one of these pictures just right, and then the moment will go on.