Memento Mori - 18 Creepy Post-Mortem Photos From The Victorian Era

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Labs was the processing of the age

It was that way until the first digital cameras came out. Today people fix photos using photoshop. So the craft of composition suffers, can be fixed (that was the extent back then really as well, with cropping). And we can also fix exposure, coloration and saturation with photoshop. That is what is meant by post processing.

We prefer to take a good picture from the git go, and like most respectable media using ethics going back to tje age of film, we only crop when we do anything at all.

For the record, there is slight post processing in those photos, and it was a fashion at the time. See any of the pink coloration on cheeks? That was applied after the foto was fixed in the lab, by that I mean chemically fixed after development, by the photographer. It was a very strong fashion done for about thirty years and can be used to date photos within a period by historians when you lack the year of a photo.