Quote Originally Posted by cloves View Post
i don't understand this picture...the background freaks me out. Are they all standing in front of a hanign back drop? if so...hows does the table fit in??
It wouldn't be unusual for something like this to pop up in Nineteenth Century photography...it looks more like there was painting done on either the original negative or on a copy of the negative to either put the background in or to "clean up" the background. It looks very much like several of the figures are "stripped in" and that it's a composite photo anyway...again, common in the Nineteenth Century. This stuff didn't start the day that Photoshop was invented.

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