Monday, September 8, 2025

Old is New Again - Aiden Stanford

 


For this project, I attempted to recreate a Civil war-style wet plate collodion portrait of my dog. I wanted to play with irony some. Historically, collodion portraits were used to capture people like soldiers and politicians. By doing the same with my dog, I make it seems as though my dog is an important figure, and I feel like it has a sense of antiquity.

To achieve this look, I made my dog pose, removed the background, made a new background from gradients and textures I had on my computer. I attempted to replicate the lighting from some of the portraits I've seen. The aspects that I appropriated from the library of Congress would be the black border, with the numbers and scratches. They allowed a very distressed look. I also focused on vignetting, masks, blur, and blemishes to mimic the emulsion and longer exposures from the portraits I saw.

Images that contained the scratches from the Library of Congress:






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