Approaching Shadow (1954) by Fan Ho
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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This is the photo I use as an example when people complain about editing in photography. The diagonal shadow was famously added in post production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Ho#%22Approaching_Shadow%22,_1954_%E3%80%8A%E9%99%B0%E5%BD%B1%E3%80%8B
Oh. That does make it a little less cool. But only a little.
25 years ago we were still learning techniques like this in the darkroom. I actually feel like you could edit more back then, in a different way. Mess with chemicals, overlays, timing... You could physically do it, like natural piano/drums dynamics vs digital sounding too clean.
Yeah, I was also surprised when I read about it on Wikipedia.
Gives me post-punk album cover vibes.
Thats really cool