Daguerreotypes

MolsondogMolsondog Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
edited March 13, 2005 in The Big Picture
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2005
    thumb.gif very cool, 'dog...thanks for this.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2005
    Molsondog wrote:
    We spent many hours working on my thesis and one day he asked if my wife and I would like to stop over to his home studio and he would create a dageurreotype of her. The "exposure" was many minutes in length. She had a brace behind her head to hold it still and avoid blurring. She was able to stratch an itch and return her hand to her lap without affecting the image.

    To this day we proudly display the image in our home and think about the early "photographers". Today we are all about speed and effects. It was certainly different then. It took him over an hour to prepare the plate that he would image. The entire session took hours.

    I wanna see it!
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