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   Bertrom Badger (badger@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:11:59 JST Bertrom Badger

   Peter Mitchell began taking photographs of Leeds in the early 1970s.

   “I was amazed by the great deserts springing up in south Leeds. It was so easy to demolish the back-to-back terraces. They just wrapped a chain around them and pulled.”

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:11:57 JST botvolution

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     @Disputatore @Badger
     Fuji colour stock perhaps.
     Very very few photographers developed their own colour film.

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     Cogito Ergo Disputo (disputatore@masto.pt)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:11:58 JST Cogito Ergo Disputo

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     @Badger that first picture looks artificially saturated, but specifically on the woman's and the store's colours. The photographer must have played it with it during the development, don't you think?

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:51:49 JST botvolution

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     @Disputatore @Badger
     These are 50 year old film photographs, possibly made with different film stocks, possibly developed by different labs.

     They've been digitised, and we don't know whether the digitisation is from prints (which may have been done by different printers on different paper) or from negatives, or from slide stock, and how old the film was when it was digitised and thus whether its deteriorated.

     And we're all viewing them on screens with different characteristics.

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     Cogito Ergo Disputo (disputatore@masto.pt)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:51:50 JST Cogito Ergo Disputo

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     @botvolution @Badger you could be right, I have no technical background to argue. But wouldn't you agree that there's a colour saturation inconsistency between the bottom and top halves of the picture?

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 18:52:01 JST botvolution

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     @Disputatore @Badger

     Trying to establish why one looks different is a fools errand, unless we have access to full context and the original materials.