Glass plate negatives

[Rob Smith]

Inspired by Scott who posted an old photo last week to show some of these. I acquired many glass plate negatives from a garage sale & have been scanning & restoring them over the past 12 months. These are a few. My thoughts are that some of these images could never be repeated with todays camera's

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/405545223_436e74f1bf_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/405544301_a839b80a21_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/405544465_9e11d4e806_o.jpg

[Rob Smith]

A few more

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/405544378_24996338ff_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/405544142_4ceaa6f797.jpg

[Rodeo Oz]

Photo no 3 in the first lot that is in the sixties...it is a Holden EK or FB in the back ground & it looks like an Austin...

[Rodeo Oz]

Oh sorry I forgot to say... Just love them old snap shots...

[Rob Smith]

Thanks R/O. You are right. It was actually a normal film neg. The last one was taken in Cologne (spelling) but love the shot with the bread/hat etc

[Rodeo Oz]

That looks like it was in the depression days back in the fourties...I think thats around that time...
This is one of my father ...I dont no what that mark is on his forhead as I can not remember it being there...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/featherfoot/DAD.jpg

[Rob Smith]

Great shot, trouble is that time does some bad stuff to the shots. Love the expression & character. I have a few of my Dad as a kid. They are great

[Janedoe67]

Oh AWESOME! Absorb that mood - fallin' in love twice tonight - gotta be good. How good are these old shots - man!!! That last one in particular! FAR OUT!

[Rob Smith]

Thanks J/D. Takes a lot of work to restore them - washing, drying & then scanning to re-touch in Photoshop. Results are worth it but!

[Janedoe67]

They sure are! Thanks for sharing them :) :) :)

[Rebecca]

I love glass negs. I have a box of them which I printed out years ago but my little brother took the prints to school for a history talk and they came back with scribble all over.
I can't scan the negs so I've photographed some. Check this one out. I love it. I've been told the distortion in her head is caused by the neg slipping during the developing.
http://www.photo.net.au/members/d/12023-1/IMG_3060.jpg
and here's my great uncle, England 1914
http://www.photo.net.au/members/d/12025-1/s11.jpg

[Janedoe67]

*LOL* That's wild! Great though, but seriously wild. I am sure I knew people with hair like that in the 90's though :S

[Rob Smith]

Great shots Rebecca, With glass negs I have got a solution that you mix with water to clean them. The actual neg bubbles on the glass as you wash it with cotton wool & the solution & can actually lift then when it dries it covers the glass again. I have app 3,000- of them & have done app 500. Scan them on an Epson Flatbed at High res & get pretty reasonable results. I'll still be doing them when I retire

[Charmed]

What a great find. Was there any information with these or just the plates?
Town Historians would go crazy over such images. Full of history, story telling & certainly shows the way of life.

Correct me if wrong, but the the 1st shot in 2nd post, say silence in bottom right hand corner?

The bread shot is amazing. I look @ that & think, Russia 19th century or sherpa, on an expedition.

[Rob Smith]

Simone,
The one's at the garage sale - I know the decendants of the guy that took most of them. They own a hradware store in Hamilton so have been able to piece together a lot of info. The guy in the back of the boat in shot no 1 is his grandfather. It does say silence - a lot of the negs have writing etched on them with dates & places that's how I know they were shot around the 1920's & where they were shot. This fishing shots I could take you to the locations today as they are only 12-15 k's from town. Bread shot I love - Bought a group of these from overseas on Ebay Cologne - Great depression. Have others of the WW2 bombings in Japan & many others.

[ghe]

Thanks for sharing those shots they are fantastic I have some old phots of my husbands great grandfather out in the bush living out of a an old shack, the faces all seem to tell a story in those old photos, they are priceless. I can see you obviously had a lot of work to do on no1 good on for doing that wouldn't it be amazing to show those to their family who thought they were long gone. I guess you could make money out of that skill hey.

[Rob Smith]

Thanks Ghe,
Something special about them & there have been a lot of people interested in them around the area that they were shot