A few days ago I published this photo of the Kaaterskill Falls, a popular subject in the Catskill Mountains of the 19th century Hudson River School painters and a major tourist destination today. I wasn't thrilled with my resulting photograph. The falls runoff was very low and my time of day was bad. I plan to go back some other time and redo the scene.
The place is so popular with tourists and cameras that I began wondering what the scene would have looked like photographed by earlier photographic processes. So I ran my image through several of the vintage photo process techniques available in
Alien Skin's Exposure 5 software plug in for Photoshop to have a look.
Below are some of the results.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7grhZWtz8cr1VQZID0prRqW2PoSBW4kV4SnjAhsSsw-zmeMMqj1biHInpj1bwIh7d6n6Z-Ok6ZHkRZpcigQZPUtXYGUfmMwez1nQVji2MtsvZfY6NflY-rAEimRsxkcWpGBwAo4vBzxij/s1600/ti01067731bw4bl.jpg) |
This is an early mid 19th century wet-collodion glass wet plate look. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJABNpOqiM1qkK8ufd0fTD48e8kRdnizYQJNehyjIHRbvCYHBfAqGEtIZ3NVjl-gCqHiZQ7gc0ClhmT57_G6aS5aP_ZxVAygEoAZ58dwg9u7y1hEBecdte0vi6RwSp96gdxhpDZagMmbNB/s1600/ti01067731bw3bl.jpg) |
I modified one of the Exposure 5 miscellaneous effects, a high key with glow and sepia tone for this version. I modeled the look and feel on some older, faded prints I had seen by Thomas Sullivan. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatmnoo27SPi-Pcf58QNe6HSbATa2BYpMbh6s0ejxysLh95CrpD8cOmoQ_gIZl7Va_tps0-NaPTznKGlOP0kHZ4YLv0o0QImjhaYNZT5dvq8Pn5F4d3S0zerztE1GhTF96VHXtBrlKG9a7/s1600/ti01067731kodachrome-cyanfadebl.jpg) |
This is the Exposure 5 version of an early print from Kodachrome with a faded, cyan tint. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqyuUwTLANhzHqd6YCuNmBWsheGznUPYKGoHKTg7RPEq10z5kP8EZ4omgcO0MZzfs-q37HXOvS1pEo2vdt7TSVzsWpBApuyL5EBDpFyF0W_IAmjjlMv4iTXL7AOmLCfDbWiwh7kYWsbZb/s1600/ti01067731polaroid55bl.jpg) |
I'm sure you can tell from the border that this is a version imitating aged Polaroid 55 film. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXyBNPOZ-Fmcs7NgECT3AU7Zh2FdLZfmjmT2GF6DUlvvzIxuk_2j5mStEOL4MR4gXeK3_d4VTMjTeJyF4KDxByooVxFHnmKpcWUaAOBswdQBSQzYO1Tf7fJu2IhvL-OuPN65MICZff6BA/s1600/cole+kaaterskill+falls.jpg) |
And this is the scene as Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, painted it in the 1820's. I'm jealous. |
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