Exceptional. Individual character casting is magnificent. Reflects historically accurate astute powers of observation and the technical skill to reproduce that reality.
"Around the year 1752, eyeglass designer James Ayscough introduced his spectacles with double-hinged side pieces. The lenses were made of tinted glass as well as clear. Ayscough felt that white glass created an offensive glaring light, that was bad to the eyes. He advised the use of green and blue glasses. Ayscough glasses were the first sunglass like eyeglasses, but they were not made to shield the eyes from the sun, they corrected for vision problems."
I purchased a gold wire framed Civil War pair in Vermont in the mid-70's; the gold is exquisitely detailed and very fine (thin). Every Civil War collector who has seen them has tried to buy them and none remarked the blue cast in the glass.
Here's an image of a pair similar to mine although the blue is much weaker, more a tint than a color, and the frames are bright gold not dark. Likely the frames were made by a jeweler as they have a goldsmith mark under the nose bridge.
So while the glasses in your images may or may not be legit the colored glass could be.
What a great set! Excellent initial capture and PP work! Love all of them. My fav is #8. I do all my pp work with Nik (minimum LR). Silver Efex Pro is one of my favorite tools! Thanks for sharing.
Fun series and interesting processing, though the tightness of the focus in the image (aside from a few anachronisms here and there) betray the time period. That said, you did a nice job here with everything, but I really really don't like the selective desaturation on the cannon shot. I'd love to see that in the same B&W processing.
unclechuck wrote:
Exceptional. Individual character casting is magnificent. Reflects historically accurate astute powers of observation and the technical skill to reproduce that reality.
"Around the year 1752, eyeglass designer James Ayscough introduced his spectacles with double-hinged side pieces. The lenses were made of tinted glass as well as clear. Ayscough felt that white glass created an offensive glaring light, that was bad to the eyes. He advised the use of green and blue glasses. Ayscough glasses were the first sunglass like eyeglasses, but they were not made to shield the eyes from the sun, they corrected for vision problems."
I purchased a gold wire framed Civil War pair in Vermont in the mid-70's; the gold is exquisitely detailed and very fine (thin). Every Civil War collector who has seen them has tried to buy them and none remarked the blue cast in the glass.
Here's an image of a pair similar to mine although the blue is much weaker, more a tint than a color, and the frames are bright gold not dark. Likely the frames were made by a jeweler as they have a goldsmith mark under the nose bridge.
So while the glasses in your images may or may not be legit the colored glass could be. ...Show more →
And here is the main reason people had tinted glasses:
"Glasses tinted with yellow-amber and brown were also a commonly-prescribed item for people with syphilis in the 19th and early 20th century because one of the symptoms of the disease was sensitivity to light."
That might make them more common amongst the military...
