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Book From 1909 Explains Why Photos From The Past Look Flawless

“in delivering finished work to your customers, you do not hand them the photographic negatives, but the prints made from these negatives.” It explained that in “the early days of photography prints were made directly from the negative without any alteration.”

This recently resurfaced instructional photography book from 1909 shows how retouching was already a thing before Instagram

The photographers used knives or pencils to etch and retouch negatives so that they made “thick necks made thin, excessive drapery removed, crooked noses straightened, hair added, backgrounds altered,” the book said [Via BoredPanda]

The Best Milky Way Photographers of the Year Show the Beauty of Our Galaxy

Travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas is known for its spectacular imagery and it particularly loves to share how amazing the cosmos are through breathtaking Milky Way photos.