Buckles Blog: Louis E. Reed #9

Friday, August 01, 2008

Scan10541, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Roger Smith said...: FOR HARRY KINGSTON: I have wondered this for years, and maybe you with your photographic expertise can answer this. The white lettering on this photo is obviously hand written. Other white lettering seems printed or professionally done, like the logo of the studio. How is this lettering achieved on the print?

Roger S.; 01 August, 2008 14:03
klsdad said...: As I recall.. in the days of
seperate metalpoints and pen tops...we had white ink.

klsdad; 01 August, 2008 17:20
Anonymous said...: The writing is done on the negative with a dark ink lettering pen. When the photo is printed from the negative, blacks and whites are reversed so the dark lettering appears white. A photographer would do it just once on the negative and it would appear on every print. Writing on the glossy surface of every print would take time but also greatly risk cracking the shiny surface emulsion which can then quickly flake off in larger and larger areas and, soon, no picture.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 01 August, 2008 17:58
Anonymous said...: There were also signature cameras that allowed you to write on the undeveloped film to identify the photo. You had to write on the narrow side of the film.
Bob Kitto; 01 August, 2008 19:41

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