East End Transformations… updated

I processed the images in my previous post very quickly to get a feel for the way in which the pinhole images might look. Too quickly with hindsight and I have since explored the nature of the processing more thoroughly with reference to Charles Marville’s photographic prints of Paris.

The first set of images were’t right – too much structure/clarity, the burned edges too mannered, too much detail remaining in the skies *, too much contrast and so on…

* Marville used the wet collodion process to create his negatives. With this process warm colors appear dark, cool colors such as the blue sky and white clouds are uniformly light.

These four photographs are much more representative of what I have in mind.

I’ve also given a bit more thought as to how I might present them as prints. If I were to present them as Marville did, the prints would be stuck to card (often pale blue) with a title label also mounted on the card. Something like this…

More food for thought. Interestingly there is a proposal to demolish the 1920s house on the left in this photograph of Bell Lane and replace it with a new house for Tracey Emin which will look something like this…