Wee cleanup needed

[Gadget]

Hi all

More lovely restores while I slept  

Regarding the backdrop. I'm not sure about this but I have the feeling/hunch - call it what you will - that photographers' studios had a few 'suitable' hangings that the sitters could be posed in front of with complementary furnishings    The hangings would have been a bit like theatre sets: maybe on canvas or board and painted in oils or tempera with varnishing. Over time, the hangings would get that brown/yellow glazing that comes with age or tobacco smoke.

This is just my feeling about it - maybe right, maybe wrong 

Oh well, back to list making 

Gadget

[jc26red]

if you google photographic backgrounds, you will find they STILL sell them though I expect today's ones would be in colour. I assume they are for studios that specialise in period style portraits.

I was trawling a while ago to see if there was anything out there that I could use and abuse as alternative backgrounds awhile ago and came across several sites selling them.

[trublue]

Thanks Mudge and Lones

Love the coloured backgrounds, especially when there coloured as nice as you folks do them.
 

Thanks again

Bob

[Polldoll]

Lovely colours Lones ... yes thats a good point that people would wear colours naturally, and that makes sense that the backdrops were probably painted by the same people who did theatre sets at the time... so they most likely were in colour..In fact it would be more difficult to paint in so many shades of grey to get the same effect I think .. Thanks Jc I didnt find much info when I googled so I will have another look ...Gadget ...I think  your hunch is probably right ... interesting though... it was just a thought  as so many of the backgrounds look like mini works of art in themseves !
Poll

[Gadget]

Hi Poll

You and I  could have been employed as background painters in 'them olden days'    I remember doing sets for plays when in school 

Interesting that the landscapes seem very Claude Lorraine-ish, romantic/idyllic settings and the interiors are all very 'posh' drawing rooms/salons 

Gadget

[Polldoll]

I suppose Having a studio photograph taken was a bit akin to having  the latest model of a car on ones drive  and designer labels on ones clothes !!
Perceived as a bit of a status symbol!lol ...Fings 'aven't changed much 'ave they Guv !!

Very much like Claude Lorraine Gadget ... Classical architecture and ideal landscapes

[cazza59]

Hi Bob

Couldn't miss this one and of course, gonna have to colour it but not tonight.

Caz


PS Gorgeous colouring Lones.