The practical printer : a complete manual of photographic printing (1874)
Hearn, Charles W · Philadelphia : Benerman & Wilson · leaf 73
65 MEDALLION AND ARCH-TOP PRINTING. varying intensities of negatives. They are very tastefully and skil¬ fully gotten up by the manufacturers. Before closing this chapter I will attempt to state what the beauty of a vignette consists in. Sometimes vignettes are meant to supply the place Fig. 27. … on both sides, it would create anything but pleasure. Then again, the beauty of vignettes in ordinary portraits is the soft blending from quite dark, in the drapery and close to the figure in the background, to a very soft and almost indistinguishable edge on the outer part of the carte de visite ,…
Photography -- Printing processes · Photographs on porcelain
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