Grampa's Harley -1917

The subject matter is excellent, however on my monitor the print appears "Muddy".
I would suggest playing around a bit for a better print quality. Starting with the kick stand down was favorite thing for early riders. Start the engine coax it to a smoothe idle with spark and fuel then rock the machine forward off the stand and letting out the clutch. Hmmmmmm I miss doing things like that. Thanks for sharing!!!

Charlie..................

Thanks Charlie, I have a few images from these negative in my home that I have tweaked. I thought I'd print them "straight" to give people an idea of the difference in negative quality. Imagine, this negative is almost 100 years old! I posted a little more info on a thread in the "large format" forum.

These are great. 2 problems I have with my grandfathers negs-huge contrast/overdevelopment (I guess they were 'geared' for Albumen?) and I think they used to varnish them...? Whatever it is, its yellowing which does help cut the contrast a bit but they are fragile and fading. I've started printing some as POP prints and cyanotypes and they seem to work better than silver. Go figure.
May even try some palladium prints with them next week. LOVE the Harley.

Next time someone wonders about the longevity of negs, I suggest Sean uses that phrase to auto programme these series of negs into the thread. End of discussion. Amazing