Historic Process Demonstration: Clouds & Combination Printing

Many nineteenth-century landscape photographs are cloudless. Early photographic negatives documented light blue and white as the same value, resulting in blank skies. In this live online program, Process Historian Mark Osterman will discuss the reasons for these cloudless skies and demonstrate the nineteenth-century technique of combination printing from two separate negatives.
Generous support for this demonstration provided by Art Bridges.
This demonstration has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this talk, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

[@jameskyle4807]

Very well presented - (as always)... Thank you, Mark, for doing this. I shall recommend this for friends and particularly those experimenting with Paper Negatives....

[@robertgojevic]

thnx Mark, it was great :)

[@dansonbrodymusic]

When printing clouds, the sky is the limit.

[@Pollock.iconoclast]

I was pretty excited to see the cloud drawing come out in the albumin.

[@IdentifyThatPlant]

Wow! (1:07:05)

[@smokeynewton]

Do you make your own POP or is there someone who's manufacturing it?

[@GeorgeEastmanMuseum]

We make our own! If you'd like to learn, reach out to [e-mail]

[@CaroleChew]

Howdy Steve Blessman Mason city Proud of you says Mike Chew lets talk