I'm not sure where this is from, but I like it

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I'm not sure where this is from, but I like it
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This is the photo I use as an example when people complain about editing in photography. The diagonal shadow was famously added in post production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Ho#%22Approaching_Shadow%22,1954%E3%80%8A%E9%99%B0%E5%BD%B1%E3%80%8B

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Yeah, I was also surprised when I read about it on Wikipedia.

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Oh. That does make it a little less cool. But only a little.

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25 years ago we were still learning techniques like this in the darkroom. I actually feel like you could edit more back then, in a different way. Mess with chemicals, overlays, timing... You could physically do it, like natural piano/drums dynamics vs digital sounding too clean.

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Gives me post-punk album cover vibes.

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