Antique Sepia Landscape
Photography · Sepia · Antique
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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An early photographic plate from the 1870s: a small wooded island centred in perfectly still water, reflecting into it almost symmetrically. Warm sepia throughout, corners falling away into heavy vignette, detail soft and slightly out of focus at the edges, sky rendered as blank paper white with no cloud. Plate edge irregularities and chemical marks around the border. Quiet and empty, no people.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1536 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Blank white sky. Early plates could not hold sky and land together.
- 2Ask for the vignette. It is what dates the image.
- 3Still water gives you the reflection for free.
Things to try
Ruin
a stone building instead
Mountain
a peak above the water
Cyanotype
the same plate in blue
Closer
the trees filling the frame
Boat
one small vessel on the water
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