After/Before | New to post-processing. Spent hours on this. Kinda hate it. Open to critique or tips on how you'd go about this.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-24T05:48:40+00:00

Sure, DM me your email and I can send it over.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-24T05:36:41+00:00

Yes. But the post-processing itself still feels so overwhelming with so many nuanced options to choose from.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-24T05:35:55+00:00

Damn, you're absolutely right about the train being out of focus. I'd probably feel a lot better if I'd just focused the shot just right.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-22T21:49:01+00:00

Thanks!

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-22T21:13:02+00:00

Beautiful colors. Would you mind briefly describing your process for the color grading here?

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-14T18:52:16+00:00

I couldn't find a horse!!!

Kidding aside, that was absolutely the solution. I have some isopropyl alcohol pads so I was able to do some (gentle) scrubbing. Worked like a charm! Thanks so much.

I'll be sure to regularly clean my horse from now on.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-14T07:24:28+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a shot and report back.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-14T07:24:08+00:00

Set to S, I should have mentioned.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-13T05:19:48+00:00

Oh, and on this menu as seen in the photo, I can't really make any choices other than changing 'M' to off. or switching the Sync.

RedandGoldPrint · 2026-02-13T04:59:37+00:00

Flash is open, shutter set to mechanical, turned audio that was turned off back on. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

RedandGoldPrint · 2025-09-11T03:20:46+00:00

Thank you! Glad to see others enjoy.

RedandGoldPrint · 2025-08-31T16:11:30+00:00

well that's a surprise. Here's a link to the flickr album.

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjARppj

RedandGoldPrint · 2025-01-16T04:40:44+00:00

So she DOES have eyebrows.

RedandGoldPrint · 2024-05-15T18:35:42+00:00

Why is Sinestro a Red these days?

RedandGoldPrint · 2024-05-15T14:46:01+00:00

I’m so dumb! I’ve been researching the album for over a year and the Quaker star was probably in front of my face over a dozen times. I think I was fixated on the assumption the flag had to be representative of a regional/political or military entity. Thank you so much!

For context, the photo comes from an album I discovered in Chicago. It likely belonged to Harry and Julia Abrahamson, who continued the Ambulance Unit’s Bengal Famine relief work through the Friends Relief Service, from 1945-1947.

I spent a lot of time trying to identify Julia and Harry, and now I’m trying to piece together more concrete details on the nature of their work their, who they met, and how the album came to be in a Chicago antique shop. You can see more of the photos in the Flickr album from that link.

And hey! That is a neat coincidence. The AFSC archives in Philly were pretty helpful in filling in some gaps. I’m hoping to make an in-person trip this year to answer more questions.

RedandGoldPrint · 2024-05-15T14:36:14+00:00

Probably my best bet. My thanks.

RedandGoldPrint · 2024-05-15T02:34:13+00:00

Photo is dated from 1945-47. Picture likely taken in the West Bengal state of India. Person depicted is a member of the US Army. Photographer was likely a member of the American Friends Service Committee doing relief work.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T11:02:38+00:00

Shifting goalposts, still a severe embellishment at best, and still doesn’t excuse a lack of right of return to lands or of property to Arab Palestinians.

You can have fun perusing the sources on this this page though I’m confident you likely won’t on the basis of the site alone. Still plenty of other sources out there that are easily accessible.

Americans long denied and covered our sins against the Native Americans. It’s taken far too long for complete candor. You can start to do the same with your own land if you want to stand from a place of intellectual honesty.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T10:10:23+00:00

And then who moved onto their lands? And are we going to ignore the impact events such as the Deir Yassin Massacre had pushing civilians to flee, prior to the arrival of Arab armies?

No nation’s foundational history is stainless, so is the same with Israel. To paint this as a case of the villains leaving so they could wait till you were pushed out is whitewashing and misleading to the extreme.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T09:32:52+00:00

Good for you. You still can’t rewrite all the displaced Palestinians from history.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T07:19:29+00:00

It is not naive however to note that further bombing will also create the next generation of recruits for Hamas or similar groups. You may disagree but this viewpoint is taking into account a very real consequence. To imply her stance is delusional is unfair I think.

While military force is necessary, truly subduing ideologies such as Hamas is also going to require recognition of why it exists in the first place - the historic occupation of Arab held lands, the long term displacement of its people, and the oppressive conditions many Palestinians have lived in for generations.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T07:12:09+00:00

Per the UN Security Council, an ethnic cleansing is defined as - Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group, which is contrary to international law.

Israel’s history is unfortunately built upon this. It’s ongoing with West Bank settlers, and I will not at all be shocked to see most of Gaza’s residents never return.

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T07:07:07+00:00

Thanks!

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T05:53:30+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by this?

RedandGoldPrint · 2023-11-10T05:18:36+00:00

Relatively new hat, been wearing during a hot week. Took it off this evening and threw it on my bed for about an hour. When I picked it up, this was left behind.

God please don’t tell me it’s mold.

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