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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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How were professional photos edited in the 70s-80s (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by paint3dbird@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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was looking at some old photos of Kate bush, Stevie Nicks, and some other celebrities photoshoots from that time period and admiring the glowy affect or the purple and red colour palette on the photos wondering how I can achieve that same effect and then I realized that they did not have online editing software or even internet but the photos still look very nice and not like raw images I usually see. This may be a dumb question, I am not a photographer and do not know much about all this stuff but I am just curious.

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[–] Mind_Sweetner@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I met retouchers who made $700hr plus their monthly $$$ in the 70s and 80s…

Different times and less than 100 people involved in the top echelon in big cities. You either did it or you didn’t.

They were practically painters.

[–] JaZepi@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Exes mom was a master retoucher. She would paint on negatives under a magnifying glass.

[–] Photo_LA@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. I used to deliver photos for a lab to a retouched. He put the print up in an easel and would essentially spray paint it then reshoot the image.