Another of the marvellous little gems at Sweetman’s Garden.
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Spring Tulips
The Autochrome process holds interest for me in that it was a major method of producing colour photographs at the beginning of the 1900’s and was not supplanted until Kodachrome arrived on the scene.
The process produces colour photographs containing rich but muted colours. The effect can be a bit surreal and dreamlike sometimes but quite satisfying.
One can attempt to duplicate the process using Photoshop.
There are a few tutorials online which are fun to work with. I am attempting to develop my own.
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Tulips Again
Sweetman’s Garden comes through once again.
A celebration of renewal happens there every spring.
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Sumac
Fall sumac colours are most spectacular.
In the days before Kodachrome, colour photographs employed the autochrome process.
This is a Photoshop simulation of that process.
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Summer Flower
This little flower grows in the fields and ditches around here. It is considered a weed.
Not very weed-like I think.
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Flower Day
In the summer I make a lot of photographs of flowers, many of which I don’t use. Until I get to messing around with new ideas and processing foolishness.
A recent post by my friend Silverpixel introduced me to the Autochrome process and I’ve spent most of the past two days playing with tutorials from the web which try to duplicate the delicate tones and feel of the original photographs. It is remarkable that this was the go-to process for colour photos from the turn of the last century until Kodak brought out Kodachrome around 1930.
Here’s an attempt using a shot of hollyhocks from Sweetman’s Garden made a year ago last summer.
I hope the treatment has a romantic and nostalgic feeling to it.
Anyway, it’s been a fun two days!
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