tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43330551824216346262024-03-28T02:49:31.783-07:00The Photo PalaceWork via daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, and other 19th century analog photographic methods.
Photo Palace Bus is a 35ft traveling darkroom, which brings photography to people. A studio, located in San Diego, is also available for sittings and classes. The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-70873035720234137412022-01-14T16:45:00.003-08:002022-01-17T18:51:31.741-08:00Chess - Contemporary Daguerreotype Series <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span> Daguerreotype Chess Series<br /><br /> During the summer of 2021, I found my interest for the game of chess revived with a new sense of vigor. I learned the game as a child in Russia, but haven’t played much in the last two decades. Early roots of chess stretch back 1500 years, and the game is simultaneously poetically elegant and surgically precise. Throughout history, chess was often used to teach military tactics and to aid in development of strategic thinking. With seemingly straightforward universal rules, it offers each player’s creativity room to develop a deeply personal style. There is also an element of art in a well-executed chess game; it is a thing of pure beauty, akin to an imperial Faberge egg. The more I played recently, the more I realized that the game of chess in many ways parallels the art of making daguerreotype images. In order to yield timeless results, both operations rely on planning and high degree of precision. While both pursuits have rather stringent and limited rules, both offer an absolutely infinite range of possibilities achievable with same starting toolkit, and a good result in both is a manifestation of skill level of each individual artist of player. Of course the game of chess is played against an opponent, and it is a battle of two minds. The process of making a daguerreotype is a solitary pursuit, where one uses skill combined with imagination to battle natural elements like humidity and light and to build silver particles in just the right way to distill and translate a beautiful ephemeral vision or idea. <br /></span></span></span><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiapm52FUh_g1PxYWBl09zOW6AWSznw71N7cNz7JbbpYFuWfnPbtImFFboBkcbruyvtqN68C2GBFCdMJkyz8YkcFa9RvXx3v6POlGKgEtOyFUCLvsWlq_kNC-QBHIQiyzNpQWBvNfTZW0qQf7LYpj3h6vb_ZoyCDX6YMwP5Jv6TlkYksh7Dp-1wY6Zt4w=s1952" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="1952" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiapm52FUh_g1PxYWBl09zOW6AWSznw71N7cNz7JbbpYFuWfnPbtImFFboBkcbruyvtqN68C2GBFCdMJkyz8YkcFa9RvXx3v6POlGKgEtOyFUCLvsWlq_kNC-QBHIQiyzNpQWBvNfTZW0qQf7LYpj3h6vb_ZoyCDX6YMwP5Jv6TlkYksh7Dp-1wY6Zt4w=w400-h176" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /> There’s one key difference between chess and daguerreotype that deserves a closer examination; it was in fact that difference that inspired me to start making modern daguerreotypes in ways varied from tradition. Checkmate positions are quite self-evident, while an uninspired poorly made daguerreotype takes quite a bit of extra thinking to recognize. The game of chess evolved over fifteen centuries, and is more popular today than even. New approaches to strategy have had plenty of time to sprout, organically replacing the old ways because they led to winning positions on the board. Today, the sophistication exhibited by the top players is truly masterful, and the level of play is still constantly progressed. Millions of people around the world play chess and keep sharing and building communal knowledge. On the other hand, fewer than twenty people today make contemporary daguerreotypes on at least somewhat consistent basis. During the 1840 and ‘50s, when daguerreotype reigned as the supreme photographic method and tens of millions of images were produced, strong competition demanded photographers to pursue higher and higher quality outputs. Some 19th century artists sought ways to make their images have personal innovative styles, and a few intriguing explorations into artistic realms were indeed made by those rare individuals. However, a combination of several factors played a role in those early bursts of innovation not being pursued to their fullest possible extent: the short period during which daguerreotype method was practiced before being replaced by a cheaper and easier collodion method, the overwhelming mass demand of the time for purely representative images, the fact that serious discussion of photography as an independent art form was yet naturally in its infancy. All that and more resulted in this incredible medium being basically frozen in time. It is by no means easy to make a perfect representational daguerreotype in the ways of the old masters, and so most who attempt to do so today simply strive for those results, reaching happy homeostasis once a certain level of consistency has been achieved. Even the most adventurous contemporary daguerreotypists of today are simply revisiting the century-old ideas of abstraction, or simply going for larger and larger image surfaces. It is as if the status quo of daguerreotype method has been established in a simplified form; it seems that given a chessboard most are happy to stick to checkers. <br /><br /> While chess is a very Zen activity, photography has always been the fuel to my passion for life. I play chess as a hobbyist and don’t expect to ever draw a game against Magnus Carlsen, but looking for ways to take my images to the new heights, ones yet unimagined and unexecuted by anyone, is a constant insatiable urge. Incredulous at what vast uncharted territories are still left untouched within the daguerreotype medium, I continually express my experience of existence through art. These seven images were conceived and executed in order to highlight the relationship between the infinitely complex and beautiful worlds of chess and daguerreotype. </span></span><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5JxeBdkxPobkLcftCDYVMTktkXql-Krvm8GG2USwiE_hzpguaniMBtQi8oYqEoGvtqhn8Kai_p_LYMGjBU5H60SpYxvQUvNuNixVRSwO60k97oZfYbgY4y26TkMFioavZcuwUKfSSj7nydx-XZXcyOU8f0EvZxeiRwQciR4IbF_xA2KIMyItUYE5HgA=s758" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5JxeBdkxPobkLcftCDYVMTktkXql-Krvm8GG2USwiE_hzpguaniMBtQi8oYqEoGvtqhn8Kai_p_LYMGjBU5H60SpYxvQUvNuNixVRSwO60k97oZfYbgY4y26TkMFioavZcuwUKfSSj7nydx-XZXcyOU8f0EvZxeiRwQciR4IbF_xA2KIMyItUYE5HgA=w316-h400" width="316" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: helvetica;"> San Diego Stadium was built in 1964.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was known as Jack Murphy Stadium from 1981 until 1997, at which point the naming right became purchasable by highest bidder. After a long battle for a new stadium, Chargers football team, who were the primary users, moved out of San Diego in 2017.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Subsequently, the building was slated for demolition.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I moved to San Diego in mid 1990s, and still remember seeing this structure for the first time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Built in brutalism style and surrounded by a seemingly infinite parking lot, the stadium dominated the once fertile valley of San Diego river like a fortified castle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Over the decades, its cold towering concrete coils managed to evolve into a familiar and even somehow welcomed sight, as I seeing it upon return from a long road trip meant that I was nearly home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One December day, while driving by on I-8, I was stunned by a sight of crumbled walls, twisted rebar, and dust rising up to the sky like a spirit offering from an Aztec fire.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was finally able to see inside the ring, as if gaining first access to the belly of the beast.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seeing this iconic landmark beginning it’s ultimate demise was more of a shock to me than I expected.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The scene immediately conjured up visions of what the Coliseum must have looked like when it’s walls just started collapsing, decades or centuries after the lions and gladiators left the building.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before the scene was gone from my sight, I decided to make a 4-plate daguerreotype series documenting this momentous occasion. Making four plates seemed befitting, as I’ve spent some time living in Japan, and there this number is associated with death, being phonetically similar in their language.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Evoking the spirit of Thomas Easterly, I timed my returns in such a way as to show the various stages of demolition work progress.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Along with the building itself, I wanted to give future viewers a sense of its surroundings, and thus choose to make my wider views from different, carefully selected perspectives. Plate #2 had to be made from a shoulder of a one-lane overpass connecting freeways I-15 and I-8.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With cars, trucks, and busses zooming by at 60 miles per hour just feet behind me, that was likely the fastest I’ve ever set up and broke down a 4x5 camera.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seen below are the silver plates that will now hold upon them a glimpse of a time when old yielded to new.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Though their physical weight is not as grand as of concrete that made up the Jack Murphy stadium, these unique images were the last to be sculpted by the light reflecting from it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-70609021026757427222021-07-22T15:54:00.004-07:002021-08-13T12:50:07.101-07:00 Daguerrean Dream Series Finalized<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2021/01/daguerrean-dream-visual-symphony-in-43.html" target="_blank">Daguerrean Dream</a> is a series of 43 4x5in daguerreotype plates, which I worked on since the autumn of 2018.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Consisting of four parts, the series was tentatively finished in 2020, but a few plates in Part III didn’t feel quite right, and I gave myself until my 44<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">th</span> birthday to create replacement images to replace those.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the end, I chose to switch out three plates, and so below are the three new daguerreotypes and the short stories behind them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Innate creativity and innovation are for me preciously holy concepts, ones to meant to be protected and fostered.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Concerted implementation of ideas yet untried joyously grants fantasy a tangible form.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The image below came to me while pondering fragility inherent in the process of each truly original image gaining existence, and the artists struggle as they carry their creations forth along that rocky path.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I have my lovely and very patient model Jozlynn to thank for providing the hands for this image.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDNhyZaAagz8kH7FBpve4QvbgUJBRv6wg03wMUlWW3IJ58XObQK4tTF3DGqWT91wwmNe5BjjATwK5rABBPalz608qY5HpCE56L7v8HNpyb21qBI8dTepUgRVdX9dpQWJXFepLX5ePheBu/s1200/Protection_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="919" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDNhyZaAagz8kH7FBpve4QvbgUJBRv6wg03wMUlWW3IJ58XObQK4tTF3DGqWT91wwmNe5BjjATwK5rABBPalz608qY5HpCE56L7v8HNpyb21qBI8dTepUgRVdX9dpQWJXFepLX5ePheBu/w306-h400/Protection_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As it happened, right after the series was originally released, the world plunged into the uncertainty and dread of the Covid-19 pandemic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Isolation became a major theme in lives of many, and I too spent a greater amount of time than usual in the calming solitude of my darkroom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quarantining in a bubble while reaching out to other souls via electronic means, increasing the chasm between Nature and us with every keystroke and Siri request, we soldiered on, while our insecurities kept us constant company.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmbC1aeBIHjW6DPuhorZDMv9jydaJdDYYluAldcQwUWaZYimKrTr0FdRWIvis2-WsK3rOL33nKOVEvJB9tqyREr8dyYvZeRlu9fiHGTMXHeziwVlr6Gr9_i69oboE79E4iq6ywXQzeXdk/s1200/Bubble_Boy_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1200" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmbC1aeBIHjW6DPuhorZDMv9jydaJdDYYluAldcQwUWaZYimKrTr0FdRWIvis2-WsK3rOL33nKOVEvJB9tqyREr8dyYvZeRlu9fiHGTMXHeziwVlr6Gr9_i69oboE79E4iq6ywXQzeXdk/w400-h311/Bubble_Boy_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> This last image was conceptualized about three months ago, but the technical challenge of superimposing myself unto the sky within a daguerreotype and without of course resorting to any digital means whatsoever was daunting, and took a good while to work out in my mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In this image I wanted to pay homage to my humble workspace; the second floor studio and darkroom that I have been occupying now for exactly a decade.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Floating in the ether of space, as if reflected there, I close my eyes and think of all the experiments and discoveries that happened there, all the chaos and uncertainty that occurred, and all the resulting intricate beauty. </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">I close my eyes and tip my hat to this unassuming building, which temporarily hosted my spirit within its confines.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M2zpRsx2SdUq0c5Zhl6BxXpXDjIRzXxpuzweT0kK4Z8UJg4oMyGjlvyt1EefmYSZ4TqgWCVg8sAhS7kaIMoH5UPSuhLmbvAhljdbYBWTZcnwYumI3p6QrrFPlcKV8HKJFd0lrRStNWpR/s1200/Tip_of_Hat_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1200" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2M2zpRsx2SdUq0c5Zhl6BxXpXDjIRzXxpuzweT0kK4Z8UJg4oMyGjlvyt1EefmYSZ4TqgWCVg8sAhS7kaIMoH5UPSuhLmbvAhljdbYBWTZcnwYumI3p6QrrFPlcKV8HKJFd0lrRStNWpR/w400-h319/Tip_of_Hat_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">For those who may be looking at my daguerreotype work for the first time I'd like to mention that I never use any computer generated materials or aids in my work and none of the plates seen here have been hand colored either, it's all a part of the way I reworked the daguerreotype process. </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">I will now wait a few more months before engraving the backs of all plates with proper information, such as names for those that have them and each plate’s placement within the series, and thus within the custom presentation box.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Meanwhile I am excited to have finished two fuming boxes as well as ordered the last parts I need for the creation of 8x10in daguerreotypes (I needed to expand the gilding stand to accommodate plates of that size).</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">I can’t wait to start working with that size, which I am sure will present a new set of challenges.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-28285142311034072372021-07-06T15:32:00.007-07:002021-07-06T15:32:45.747-07:00Daguerreotype Accelerated Aging Test<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Two years ago I produced a few extra daguerreotypes while futzing about with a new development system that in the end didn’t work out for me.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Those few extra plates however did give me a chance to conduct a rather oversimplified accelerated aging test, and to test the two materials I usually use for mats to see how they would perform under stress.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A while back I promised someone I would post results of my aging experiment, and so here it is.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It should be noted here that proper storage of daguerreotypes would of course involve not having them in places where direct sunlight repeatedly hits their surface, and that they should be kept away from excessive heat and moisture.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Daguerreotype image is made of silver/gold/mercury amalgam particles resting atop a layer of pure silver.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having essentially no protection from air, that silver plate is sealed under glass with some sort of a spacer that acts as a mat, separating image from glass.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Material chosen for that spacer and the kind of sealing tape one uses are two major factors in how well the plate will survive overtime. Any harmful chemistry trapped in the mat, and any air or moisture leaking through the sealing tape will result in tarnishing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>High temperature will of course accelerate any chemical reaction, and UV light is also known to be a catalyst. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without going into too much detail I will say that most tarnish on daguerreotypes can indeed be cleaned with careful modern methods, but it is my aim to have my plates go as long as possible in their original state and without need for restoration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With how little was known abut archival methods 175 years ago, and how poorly plates were sealed back then, it is remarkable how many daguerreotypes survived all those years in incredibly clean condition.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is my hope that with better quality matting supplies my images will exhibit only a minimal change in at least 200 years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here is how the two 1/4 plate sized images looked when they were made in March 2019. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXDZY-tiCngQlUNBI98mev_9GYoJHDVs4vG9ip-Cra7N8FHmg9vLgh_zaHcvTTBIeQbiVQ5KVHetIpPxpnCslpKsIHOwn1AYQortYq0ll9awF51jtSySK-1zXTRTe_gBGW-wX1g3yex3k/s2048/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate1_Before_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXDZY-tiCngQlUNBI98mev_9GYoJHDVs4vG9ip-Cra7N8FHmg9vLgh_zaHcvTTBIeQbiVQ5KVHetIpPxpnCslpKsIHOwn1AYQortYq0ll9awF51jtSySK-1zXTRTe_gBGW-wX1g3yex3k/w345-h400/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate1_Before_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="345" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 1</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyojfoj35MnxmP-DXQvIOnxvkHLgwu4EyMXFFKg1XdqnSdaCeoC5AsHRr8TmQP-Bv-qsjb5ER8Ah7dxN7geRjiPDxEbQXkQLpnQMKY1M7w2h18nYue8JQtPg3eC5EYIhezZK6y2Vzp5Yv8/s2048/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate2_Before_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1647" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyojfoj35MnxmP-DXQvIOnxvkHLgwu4EyMXFFKg1XdqnSdaCeoC5AsHRr8TmQP-Bv-qsjb5ER8Ah7dxN7geRjiPDxEbQXkQLpnQMKY1M7w2h18nYue8JQtPg3eC5EYIhezZK6y2Vzp5Yv8/w321-h400/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate2_Before_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="321" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Plate 2</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I sealed the plates on July 6th 2019.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Plate 1 was sealed with the regular paper mat, while plate 2 had a plastic frame spacer instead of paper mat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t bother adding the finishing tape that I normally put over the actual sealing tape to make presentation look complete; that tape is very easily removed and maintained, and it lives outside the enclosure, so won’t affect anything tarnish wise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here is how the plates looked right after sealing.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckc394wLTxMa1iZOzd5yaPTcTqM9uDyE3xzs634bLC-6MDDu2qyBV7NxRU2SxWBibbBuDzUNQu1lRpLgd3XKLDlC1E9NE3fqJPUfuk2QytvD7MgGRYAEG0sYs3Lf0xk4nGwwRTAuzPmYv/s1200/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Sealed_July_2019_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1200" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckc394wLTxMa1iZOzd5yaPTcTqM9uDyE3xzs634bLC-6MDDu2qyBV7NxRU2SxWBibbBuDzUNQu1lRpLgd3XKLDlC1E9NE3fqJPUfuk2QytvD7MgGRYAEG0sYs3Lf0xk4nGwwRTAuzPmYv/w400-h220/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Sealed_July_2019_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Plates sealed in July 2019</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For the next two years I kept them in same position.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In San Diego there’s on average about 150 days per year without a cloud in the sky, and about 120 days with very light partial clouds, so for at least 270 days each year the plates were bombarded by direct sun.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Every once in a while I would take a temperature reading from the back by using an infrared thermometer, and even on mildly warm days in a closed car the plates would regularly heat up to 140-150°F (60-68°C).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have also taken these plates into subfreezing temperatures on multiple road trips. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Morning dew point can be pretty brutal when living only a few miles from the ocean, and with windows of my car often left rolled down, I’m sure there were many times when these plates got rather soaked.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBumLaWJ2jdgSLp3HNBYKGk3RoJZy6sA6VR8ODMY89CrZYhxdXzSdve1S3WaZ68LJx83em9Xt4Qh-rmJKGsV-oLumpJvOgBFUGznlaZm0jnXrsazr2xg3zH2uMBccWW08PBh0E0Ze0ZjnK/s871/Windshield_Daguerreotype_Test_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBumLaWJ2jdgSLp3HNBYKGk3RoJZy6sA6VR8ODMY89CrZYhxdXzSdve1S3WaZ68LJx83em9Xt4Qh-rmJKGsV-oLumpJvOgBFUGznlaZm0jnXrsazr2xg3zH2uMBccWW08PBh0E0Ze0ZjnK/w368-h400/Windshield_Daguerreotype_Test_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="368" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Plates left under windshield for 2 years.</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not being a trained conservator or archivist, I can’t say with much precision exactly what the conditions to which I subjected my plates were equating to in terms of normal recommended storage. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I do suspect though that subjecting my plates to intense heat and direct sunlight for two years probably sped up any tarnishing or other deterioration by at least a factor of 50, so I unsealed them on July 6th 2020, and here is how they appeared, showed here side by side with their original condition.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZ7X2D_st5zQDVYdEVJVc4r4Rk033okqfdmMgrysWp-Zx-DzaaCzKxinmEnr0Al6sWuD4IXCxhLWH2C-_1ZMGj-ABR-P3WEKLscIlJfHuW878VnsclfQP7YxtnyA_z07enFpkp3mPy02V/s1200/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate_1_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="1200" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZ7X2D_st5zQDVYdEVJVc4r4Rk033okqfdmMgrysWp-Zx-DzaaCzKxinmEnr0Al6sWuD4IXCxhLWH2C-_1ZMGj-ABR-P3WEKLscIlJfHuW878VnsclfQP7YxtnyA_z07enFpkp3mPy02V/w400-h243/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate_1_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsjW-36vHKmD2lpMK0iwrfdWHK5AA1hSI-vJwzu_Yrf4iz_MjoWT3kxnhu3x6N78IUfnX9l5Bf6kvF5rY9mSKby_WAvvSZocGv9p7Rrz40Cj4IuQ_DS2b3Pp2SbHXg7nU3i6b8P7PHw8p/s1200/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate_2_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1200" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsjW-36vHKmD2lpMK0iwrfdWHK5AA1hSI-vJwzu_Yrf4iz_MjoWT3kxnhu3x6N78IUfnX9l5Bf6kvF5rY9mSKby_WAvvSZocGv9p7Rrz40Cj4IuQ_DS2b3Pp2SbHXg7nU3i6b8P7PHw8p/w400-h254/Daguerreoytpe_Aging_Test_Plate_2_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When unsealing the plates, I was reassured that the tape I use will withstand pretty much anything; after all that heat it didn’t come undone even a tiny bit in any spot around the perimeter. I was surprised to see that the paper mat that I know to be the safest for daguerreotypes still left a mark, while I see almost zero trace of the plastic mat. A few tarnish spots also seem to have appeared; they are rather minor and I suspect my washing and drying procedure may be partially to blame.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Overall though, if this is how much change my plates are to expect after 100 years of normal indoor storage, I’m happy. Seeing that chemical reactions within enclosed environment tend to slow down and eventually seize altogether, it is not outside the realm of reason to suggest that whatever tarnish is seen after 100 years, won’t actually look twice as bad in 200 years, but in fact may just look 10% worse or not at all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On the other hand, here are a couple examples of what happens when if an incorrect mat is chosen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The bare plate you see with no mat on it was one of my early Becquerel developed images, and I sealed it with a regular mat that is advertised as fully archival.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was stored in the dark at room temperature, and unsealed 3 years after, revealing major tarnishing around the cut edges of the mat. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The second plate is not shown whole, as it is the work of another modern daguerreotypist. This plate was made and sealed in 2018, so it has been in contact with this mat for 3 years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It hangs in my studio, on a fairly dimly lit wall with no sun anywhere near it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I got it, I didn’t see any of that tarnish around the edges of the spot in the sky.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Mat choice is very important; if</span> only 3 years can do this much damage while storage conditions are generally favorable, imagine what plates sealed with such mats look like in 100 years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4niiPLfbdrYcNTnYVt6BGh5Q6f8v_gBuImHlNEV3_FHFpnNXOscjzRfdplC25fSbDcwx3j2LKQvUbeUjkf5-km9YLsLMd9gsAlanXtjT6onjUxmtaoCucOkrJNN6MBUedOW8YN9JqWKn/s984/Daguerreotype_Tarnish_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4niiPLfbdrYcNTnYVt6BGh5Q6f8v_gBuImHlNEV3_FHFpnNXOscjzRfdplC25fSbDcwx3j2LKQvUbeUjkf5-km9YLsLMd9gsAlanXtjT6onjUxmtaoCucOkrJNN6MBUedOW8YN9JqWKn/w325-h400/Daguerreotype_Tarnish_1.jpg" width="325" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Tarnished Becquerel Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEnrf7zchTy0HgRusaM1oEzLjzpH-_99NDVA8UI91mk8xJMpPxMLmEvmynebuJ9_i9tJRWwL5GE-dRffrFsg7BrX2bVzA2X5Ex3NQyFsUFkbkqME5J7kpTM1-aXwqO2VwmyRpy-wKoDJN/s1280/Daguerreotype_Tarnish_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1280" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEnrf7zchTy0HgRusaM1oEzLjzpH-_99NDVA8UI91mk8xJMpPxMLmEvmynebuJ9_i9tJRWwL5GE-dRffrFsg7BrX2bVzA2X5Ex3NQyFsUFkbkqME5J7kpTM1-aXwqO2VwmyRpy-wKoDJN/w400-h241/Daguerreotype_Tarnish_2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Tarnished Mercury Developed Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> I hope this information will inspire caring artists to look more closely at how they finish and present their work. Those who are in this for the long haul may want to consider running similar tests on materials they prefer or would like to consider using. When working with daguerreotypes time slows down, and so a coupe of years of waiting is nothing when it comes to pursuit of higher quality. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-33933495105514068592021-06-04T13:19:00.000-07:002021-06-04T13:19:07.752-07:00 Claude Glass Sees California<p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While collecting ground glass loupes featured in my last post, I did meet a few good people around the world, and those kind folks helped that collection grow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Last year, knowing that I make ambrotypes, one of my loupe friends from United Kingdom emailed me saying that at a local car boot he found what appeared to be a blank black ambrotype, still in its case.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was perplexed, as I’ve never seen such a thing found, but in his photos that’s exactly what it appeared to be, and so he sent it to me with the next couple of loupes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon receiving it and examining its carefully curved surface and precisely ground edges, I started suspecting it wasn’t actually just a blank glass ready for an image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With time I addressed some experts, and was surprised to learn that what I had was indeed a pre-photographic object called Claude Glass. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is a Claude Glass and how does one use it? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This simple but beautiful viewing device is named after 17<sup>th</sup> century miniaturist Claude Lorraine, and it is basically a black mirror.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They came in variety of shapes and sizes, usually about 4in across in order to fit comfortably into someone hand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To protect their reflective surface Claude Glasses came in protective cases much like those used for housing daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, but with a metal hinge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The case also had a loop to enable user to hang it in perfect position for viewing and have both hands free to enjoy a glass of wine and a cigar, or indeed to paint the scene while referencing the glass. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFlz68uJw1PFL09cj058Xzk18d1s2LmFunaVTMVLraRJL0nozNnp2rC27RilOU4ZoRtqU1cmUIRrfvY651OdsFVWk5V1h-W39oLDpJWyubES5i4d9SohJZ7lPu4R6coLUX53tUv4x868v/s1221/Claude_Glass_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1221" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFlz68uJw1PFL09cj058Xzk18d1s2LmFunaVTMVLraRJL0nozNnp2rC27RilOU4ZoRtqU1cmUIRrfvY651OdsFVWk5V1h-W39oLDpJWyubES5i4d9SohJZ7lPu4R6coLUX53tUv4x868v/w400-h390/Claude_Glass_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Claude Glass</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have found very few references to how exactly they were made, and some of those explanations didn’t seem to make much sense.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To the eye it looks like a highly polished piece of black glass, and the back surface surely does look like a solid unworked piece of old color glass, but one detain within the polished surface side has me puzzled.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At a certain angle and with the aid of strong light one can see a faint perfect circle ‘emerging’ up to the surface, as if two pieces of glass were glued together and that’s the seam, but the finish is exactly the same within that circle as outside of it, the ‘seam’ is absolutely perfect, and the circle is cut off by the rectangular shape of the device itself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So I’m still not exactly certain as to how they were made so perfect and smooth as to give a flawless reflection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below images show this ghost circle; in order to have it show up I had to exaggerate exposure and contrast a lot, as that circle is barely visible even to the naked eye in most situations.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBLqtqSoAL_sAgGq53sJSC8fKQy6k59UWJMchqCNUd_8F-bCJTyAvR5rNoRdKvWUyXIc-AvY5Bgiy7phyphenhyphensdxM207JLdNUlmwiruNavrCe7oznjToY8iJ8K6lgKVns7cK5AchKqaaM7Vpa/s794/Claude_Glass_Circle_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="566" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBLqtqSoAL_sAgGq53sJSC8fKQy6k59UWJMchqCNUd_8F-bCJTyAvR5rNoRdKvWUyXIc-AvY5Bgiy7phyphenhyphensdxM207JLdNUlmwiruNavrCe7oznjToY8iJ8K6lgKVns7cK5AchKqaaM7Vpa/w285-h400/Claude_Glass_Circle_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="285" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Ghost Circle Within Claude Glass</span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To use a Claude Glass, a person would turn their back to the scene they wish to view, and view that scene via that reflection instead of observing it directly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now why would someone do this?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once we take into account culture and emerging trends of the period, there are actually several good reasons to be discovered.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Certainly the aesthetic of the image seen in such a way is indeed reminiscent of oil paintings; the color palette is slightly subdued and shifted into the same hue, which is usually slightly less warm.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After centuries of seeing nature through oil paintings, quite often miniatures as those were quicker to complete and thus more affordable, audiences of 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup>, and early 19<sup>th</sup> century were not quite accustomed to seeing Nature in all its true glory and brightness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Additionally, the vastness of Nature was still a very imposing thing to face for our ancestors; most often referred to as a wild beast in need of overpowering and taming, Nature was still much too powerful for them to consider.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was one thing to sit by the fireplace with a glass of brandy and hold a view of the Alps in your hand, and a whole new thing to step out of your carriage onto a side of some cliff and to look out at those mountains with your own two eyes. Heck, I know I get overwhelmed when I’m alone on the edge of Grand Canyon, and I’ve met people who experienced panic attacks at that place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Staring at the glass held in hand gives one a level of control over the scene behind them, and the familiar oil painting color palette makes it even friendlier and more familial to the eye.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I see a strong parallel here with the behavior of modern day folks and their phone cameras.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First thing most of them do when seeing something interesting is snap a picture of it and start staring down at the screen while applying filters to it, in order to make Nature more palatable for their eye; I don’t see how this is much different, if any at all.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Claude Glasses can obviously be very useful to an artist trying to paint a scene. Its image presents an easy way of visualizing which colors and light values are predominant in the scene.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another fun use was to have a larger version in your carriage fixed in such a way that it pointed out the window.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This way you not only wouldn’t need to turn your head in order to see the passing scenery, but it will appear to you as if passing on a screen (sound familiar?) and in its own specific colorization, not unlike Kodachrome or Technicolor having their own distinct looks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In addition, the image seen through the Claude Glass is pleasantly dimmer than a sunlit scene one may be facing, and so there’s less strain on the eye.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here’s how the image looks when you just opened up the case, and are starting to line up the correct cropping you wish to view.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyiWbbFsBl7gakGJhVi84havK8CJ3qdYtrUeH3c89892_s_vfnjgDX03IpfDayt69na3-1ZjQk869_S-X9HdWttEmIv8dIjJjXgZb3_ttAZUCP3uzlXAwOYFcdjbSNzwxhLzGmAVJCv6s/s1200/_Claude_Glass_In_Use_Yosemite_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1200" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyiWbbFsBl7gakGJhVi84havK8CJ3qdYtrUeH3c89892_s_vfnjgDX03IpfDayt69na3-1ZjQk869_S-X9HdWttEmIv8dIjJjXgZb3_ttAZUCP3uzlXAwOYFcdjbSNzwxhLzGmAVJCv6s/w400-h335/_Claude_Glass_In_Use_Yosemite_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Claude Glass on Location </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a good deal of looking, I found a number of good articles describing philosophy behind the use of this device, and several of them have been written rather recently.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, almost no sources had good and clear examples of what actual images taken through it could be like.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This inspired me to take my Claude Glass on the road, on a very quick trip around some of my favorite spots around California.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I figured that this intriguing relic was worth taking to places like Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, redwood forests of Northern California, and the beautiful coastline stretch above San Francisco.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Images were made with an iPhone 11Pro as seen below; I had to shoot them at quite a strong angle to avoid having the phone showing up in the scene. Lining things up within the frame this way is no easy task, and so do forgive the few images where I couldn’t quite correct the keystone effect all the way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All editing was done on standard phone camera software, as I haven’t had Photoshop for the past few years and really don’t miss it at the least.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reference images on the left were left nearly untouched, and Claude Glass images were adjusted at the time of capture to represent what I saw as closely as possible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Jae9QMt5FMc0Q0dp3GXmDqV4KR-J_dxsD5CboxmgIn4-2DHgSYxx-F59T6L5iiH5giWkWBUAuCAwEZh4cFIT_Jnc-M8oVsBR97Nbiv_h-DVri78tzeh_wWMBFE8-0J64DxS4r6Nfl5-R/s1200/_Claude_Glass_Use_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1200" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhxq_1NRR5-fqu1lWKsXIs2kSW997-eZPjxRO9N-NRNJAP8V7FrF5-ICwPNf5AdXPCy1fxhQfJiNHDwsmvExzXbaxXmzJBcopo7KOpnuw6joP1daKjVre1RLFblOly3X6f9oA3HWNgvld/w400-h251/California_Coast_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">California Coast 1</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xPG7dRxPEgl-HaIIKWYajyNpcts6-SVznHZX7Qguft2MEm7tzwK2b8DObaWfggq41S4xv650BlHF_CybXlgOzXu8UzIfC0Oq_iGZCTZkdt842flOIQGlH0IWAFNXLrco_rV47mC9APIW/s1200/California_Coast_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="1200" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xPG7dRxPEgl-HaIIKWYajyNpcts6-SVznHZX7Qguft2MEm7tzwK2b8DObaWfggq41S4xv650BlHF_CybXlgOzXu8UzIfC0Oq_iGZCTZkdt842flOIQGlH0IWAFNXLrco_rV47mC9APIW/w400-h169/California_Coast_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">California Coast 2</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdpzw114oo0ABmMFvt8aVdkl_Hy8PxU5mvcTz9oYr_Ge4NEJSMFzrNNLSqrVBhup-3YmqTpL6XMMXCzHllIb0wkwYxloRfvrQp68r1mlDw799hcvyIR0kyvPUze2CvyRC4mbvwdZUgJ9k/s1200/California_Coast_3_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1200" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdpzw114oo0ABmMFvt8aVdkl_Hy8PxU5mvcTz9oYr_Ge4NEJSMFzrNNLSqrVBhup-3YmqTpL6XMMXCzHllIb0wkwYxloRfvrQp68r1mlDw799hcvyIR0kyvPUze2CvyRC4mbvwdZUgJ9k/w400-h156/California_Coast_3_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">California Coast 3</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdaXKAtx_rE_mT6fnMjQPWzeNf5D6V6xJK7f42MNTGA2wrhom8UJnLHmJCiOtVozAHT3MGtAdDhYj3QmedUS4pT30Sq-iHwiXIR8IJHRJfQVXaO3rDe1tjisappJ96L4Ij6l3OGsi6RfP/s1200/California_Coast_4_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1200" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdaXKAtx_rE_mT6fnMjQPWzeNf5D6V6xJK7f42MNTGA2wrhom8UJnLHmJCiOtVozAHT3MGtAdDhYj3QmedUS4pT30Sq-iHwiXIR8IJHRJfQVXaO3rDe1tjisappJ96L4Ij6l3OGsi6RfP/w400-h255/California_Coast_4_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">California Coast 4</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgfKYUuzdvQsuxW-ZILA5bc7N6eWsYGSgNKS0iBxOfePTJcAaqh74LPIPr_cOInYiinDU4jmt7ph8DmwgeTYqudzwNenTQdlhkQmqPjx3ZZCd9lIp8O8UHjYQXTXMpmaxZM2duJQA2UMJ/s1200/Eagle_View_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="1200" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgfKYUuzdvQsuxW-ZILA5bc7N6eWsYGSgNKS0iBxOfePTJcAaqh74LPIPr_cOInYiinDU4jmt7ph8DmwgeTYqudzwNenTQdlhkQmqPjx3ZZCd9lIp8O8UHjYQXTXMpmaxZM2duJQA2UMJ/w400-h185/Eagle_View_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eagle View 1, Sequoia National Park</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFH8PswOOdUayf2a45CgVVd6fNu4KAx7FcY_IXkD9hkh4cZkQO2I9Jh3vHihwEHy4718C-CAgq_dndcTswoDXWNlp6-WH6RzO57kVXIpESHNzJSfLncmaXYL4MhR4CLnnrtuATaVFqTTKt/s1200/Eagle_View_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1200" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFH8PswOOdUayf2a45CgVVd6fNu4KAx7FcY_IXkD9hkh4cZkQO2I9Jh3vHihwEHy4718C-CAgq_dndcTswoDXWNlp6-WH6RzO57kVXIpESHNzJSfLncmaXYL4MhR4CLnnrtuATaVFqTTKt/w400-h179/Eagle_View_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eagle View 2, Sequoia National Park</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnu-dY_8OxdSIrmf1c5NqQ6M3CcspckRIKcUYr5fu4IlTQu1rJmyZ9GBoXeJKlT56tjvCCWEd-NFLJHM6XyfUUoi_-mIoS71bV4DM7pegJ8FF8aUGxAFptPt-G7ttUGDTHAOIuWK2cgEP8/s1200/General_Sherman_Sequoia_Closeup_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1200" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK-u0ZuYGRkfwYwthXfgZ6l0YylnzYjq7zO83avOU_Dh2j4FrolAPKZxy84I0HqN64Q5v4eJsUckAhjVnvJPoU2rIbJiaBwaD6nSnx1WI3mX1B67hjpGDz9tIMOnSM1MqDNRTtUjL5lQZe/w400-h256/General_Sherman_Sequoia_Full_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">General Sherman, Largest Tree on Earth, Sequoia National Park</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshtrtVJRW0RD0b32f6Yt9NHMJxe7k04dk0thpFXHNa5IP0ehUOgirIwjxcWoFlKWTVyEf3yYuc3jM9fcrZF26gUBQIDRZxkqAUu3JaHBugSVmhdfIDyyQqOop96MzNH76_5mxLO2PewVS/s1200/General_Sherman_Sequoia_Half_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1200" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshtrtVJRW0RD0b32f6Yt9NHMJxe7k04dk0thpFXHNa5IP0ehUOgirIwjxcWoFlKWTVyEf3yYuc3jM9fcrZF26gUBQIDRZxkqAUu3JaHBugSVmhdfIDyyQqOop96MzNH76_5mxLO2PewVS/w400-h256/General_Sherman_Sequoia_Half_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">General Sherman, Sequoia National Park</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpJN5m9Q2dg5VgE24gsZFlIiF1VvJyK-0qCrP3zHkC81BwjN5qhGxo38gNdl39SeJJSGJW6Pbk_A68l8sfb-lWBlhsMP7BXZRUvWIIhaHBDEKi15_1quKhf0hMJQG_c2m2LLix0ygX-Uf/s1200/Mountain_View_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1200" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpJN5m9Q2dg5VgE24gsZFlIiF1VvJyK-0qCrP3zHkC81BwjN5qhGxo38gNdl39SeJJSGJW6Pbk_A68l8sfb-lWBlhsMP7BXZRUvWIIhaHBDEKi15_1quKhf0hMJQG_c2m2LLix0ygX-Uf/w400-h254/Mountain_View_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sequoia National Park, View of Sierras</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrHSpQni2IobETxlCkT-RMdRUFVbW69Ol1frzPyejk5TCFx0aIaAtVWcTYtmxsAm9RbzPq3jG49ygJy7y1pODGTeRTEZpzzOY1Z6z8T7Usb3uvDx2dH_nfyZs9M-Asyco4xNJskOwkClP/s1200/Redwoods_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1200" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrHSpQni2IobETxlCkT-RMdRUFVbW69Ol1frzPyejk5TCFx0aIaAtVWcTYtmxsAm9RbzPq3jG49ygJy7y1pODGTeRTEZpzzOY1Z6z8T7Usb3uvDx2dH_nfyZs9M-Asyco4xNJskOwkClP/w400-h249/Redwoods_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">California Redwoods</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">(I have made a daguerreotype of these incredible trees before,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">they exhibit 'natural rafting' after falling in a fierce 2005 storm)</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurMbG9uljHKZp9i0b5APaWzjgZxnNDDQ7Ut3vdmiUj9BRnEeYILAlRHuCjM3ZFTfXn7ROzg8JTRfBcouAYBuDHol8U9bekrOLkcpyIEFPpu3l7K9tC2jq-QNGPdOC_-eg6ViCHFhRhvAh/s1200/River_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1200" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurMbG9uljHKZp9i0b5APaWzjgZxnNDDQ7Ut3vdmiUj9BRnEeYILAlRHuCjM3ZFTfXn7ROzg8JTRfBcouAYBuDHol8U9bekrOLkcpyIEFPpu3l7K9tC2jq-QNGPdOC_-eg6ViCHFhRhvAh/w400-h179/River_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">River View</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZtw-2IhRtM9bZc8ZWKbKU1EB9AkeFjqYrfGAxh6tdZ2b4zt3YtIlTMPGSJqazFLS1ArG82iXr7RhI-Mfl3i8-sYaQiNbInTSZLT1ebLyDxAwarl1Gz74o82e_5QBhtxD1hWcj07w0Q8m/s1200/Sequoia_Flower_Hill_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1200" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZtw-2IhRtM9bZc8ZWKbKU1EB9AkeFjqYrfGAxh6tdZ2b4zt3YtIlTMPGSJqazFLS1ArG82iXr7RhI-Mfl3i8-sYaQiNbInTSZLT1ebLyDxAwarl1Gz74o82e_5QBhtxD1hWcj07w0Q8m/w400-h259/Sequoia_Flower_Hill_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Flowers at Sequoia National Park</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJSPagD4SzeyEmeZwrMSa_UA7zrZid7cmRF8AMquQzYhBqPL9ZEQTCyLHn8urHDuOArgDyFH1jKFUkBR766xazV_fa9apLlYLk2vafjWHA5wIwYtixAXcWkmnqKSnEgISyUJDXMvXNvU3o/s1200/Yosemite_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1200" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJSPagD4SzeyEmeZwrMSa_UA7zrZid7cmRF8AMquQzYhBqPL9ZEQTCyLHn8urHDuOArgDyFH1jKFUkBR766xazV_fa9apLlYLk2vafjWHA5wIwYtixAXcWkmnqKSnEgISyUJDXMvXNvU3o/w400-h254/Yosemite_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Merced River 1</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mPICk4dlbWQYz1qQ-skMGLDfVFhfZcbgpGyIB6UQf-x8elRv4y5tjy9PK0-DMM9Ud6reMorsO2VowKO89UAWSqAw7Yg3qXCZQxpH9ZVjnSKwt4h2pE7gDQRCK6NAi59IB0bumUufE4ux/s1200/Yosemite_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1200" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mPICk4dlbWQYz1qQ-skMGLDfVFhfZcbgpGyIB6UQf-x8elRv4y5tjy9PK0-DMM9Ud6reMorsO2VowKO89UAWSqAw7Yg3qXCZQxpH9ZVjnSKwt4h2pE7gDQRCK6NAi59IB0bumUufE4ux/w400-h258/Yosemite_2_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Merced River 2</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29GRyPRDHJsx5xWZhS0sHnKdHSnvJcVLsiqFvQJVHd9H3BEWx1DuZvbkAiiDpgFpW1aoSmZa_S040wwG863cQjXbgh38xLJbFo32vjhJB2aXjv3FDdt5R77_4qMf_mDT6Dl4Cwfo1_V5r/s1200/Yosemite_Falls_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1200" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29GRyPRDHJsx5xWZhS0sHnKdHSnvJcVLsiqFvQJVHd9H3BEWx1DuZvbkAiiDpgFpW1aoSmZa_S040wwG863cQjXbgh38xLJbFo32vjhJB2aXjv3FDdt5R77_4qMf_mDT6Dl4Cwfo1_V5r/w400-h239/Yosemite_Falls_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Yosemite Falls</span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; 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font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZfx4aao5tEHGeOEGThi7s_G1IDhsbSbjSbrHrHO4hyZhBlsGacSYBt9ApuH0-VmEkVodgIm_vLmqUuWxtDUfePWSFAuIxLGXFfAEwsmAlfBO7SB0wsyHVMy-uRpQaaWgRL8xkEE9FUuM/s1200/Yosemite_Half_Dome_Sunset_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1200" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZfx4aao5tEHGeOEGThi7s_G1IDhsbSbjSbrHrHO4hyZhBlsGacSYBt9ApuH0-VmEkVodgIm_vLmqUuWxtDUfePWSFAuIxLGXFfAEwsmAlfBO7SB0wsyHVMy-uRpQaaWgRL8xkEE9FUuM/w400-h233/Yosemite_Half_Dome_Sunset_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Half Dome at Sunset</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FxDHgofO7pFybVqa1eEZ3jFlzCe9HzgKyxB2m0XaM5Ft5SRwlp6wWnBPoeXUCUBv1ZfG-7q4en3qyfqJtsj4cyFHsiSqcHzde5I6rulCHJLHucd3qLmQaD2TCKESmyeViw4It6xbuAkk/s1200/Yosemite_Merced_River_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="1200" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FxDHgofO7pFybVqa1eEZ3jFlzCe9HzgKyxB2m0XaM5Ft5SRwlp6wWnBPoeXUCUBv1ZfG-7q4en3qyfqJtsj4cyFHsiSqcHzde5I6rulCHJLHucd3qLmQaD2TCKESmyeViw4It6xbuAkk/w400-h245/Yosemite_Merced_River_1_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Merced River in Yosemite Valley</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0FnzbSQYCl8vOMMihZWwUpVhlA400hKDm7_domlgevuGI1rq_vFECDMmGzcohYQqOxosCSQKa48aK2EkEm72Bi17faUnYS4SaeTgYfI-9V57TCvV2PcQXFv2XTP3wvi6dM9ReHdfi1o9/s1200/Yosemite_Valley_Tunnel_View_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1200" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0FnzbSQYCl8vOMMihZWwUpVhlA400hKDm7_domlgevuGI1rq_vFECDMmGzcohYQqOxosCSQKa48aK2EkEm72Bi17faUnYS4SaeTgYfI-9V57TCvV2PcQXFv2XTP3wvi6dM9ReHdfi1o9/w400-h255/Yosemite_Valley_Tunnel_View_Claude_Glass_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Yosemite Valley Tunnel View </span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For those who know my work I’ll confirm that going on such a beautiful road trip without either wet plate or daguerreotype equipment is unfathomable to me, and so of course I brought along my smallest and most maneuverable tintype setup. There wasn’t much time for its use, and it was rather hot, dry, and windy in most all locations visited, so I only brought back about 20 plates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below is one of my four or five top favorites.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I love the way the wind picked up during my short exposure, made with 1860s Dallmeyer Triple Achromat, and was trying to brush away the mighty waters of Yosemite Falls.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuRxifhQrdYdy6CC8bdvfHazuUukXqE-DZ53qj0BOJCOq5hFO5sHB42jN5TEyOycZjAOlKqfYEHFm6_jFiKSOuQ5XSHJXrXvIktQchfByy580hONHI6ip88OwIQcDRSUpPDv-S-B7w_gx/s1200/Yosemite_Falls_1_4x5_Tintype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1200" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuRxifhQrdYdy6CC8bdvfHazuUukXqE-DZ53qj0BOJCOq5hFO5sHB42jN5TEyOycZjAOlKqfYEHFm6_jFiKSOuQ5XSHJXrXvIktQchfByy580hONHI6ip88OwIQcDRSUpPDv-S-B7w_gx/w400-h323/Yosemite_Falls_1_4x5_Tintype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Yosemite Falls, 4x5in Tintype</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for reading and supporting independent artists,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-81554860945912645742021-05-07T14:51:00.004-07:002021-05-07T15:43:25.461-07:00Tintypes Made Using Focusing Loupes As Lenses<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This personal project was born of lifelong pursuit of charting new paths upon the broad field of artistic landscape, combined with an unexplained passion for vintage ground glass focusing loupes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ll never seize looking for magical yet unexplored ways in which to see the world, and translating those findings into the language of photography; this is but one such journey.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvCfO9XhXrEPNyWDDyT-S6TKkqPaZY8TDiiZEqjyXICxovTIlkL0y7LWxU9yyVygiJ8c6vwyEmCNB1QYGBxw3BeozUDi-rrRmBrJqj5Xo_DnaLWp6xVVStXYUiR81OSgf_PRMY6rxqIZV/s1200/2_Flower_Laverne_Anthony_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1015" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvCfO9XhXrEPNyWDDyT-S6TKkqPaZY8TDiiZEqjyXICxovTIlkL0y7LWxU9yyVygiJ8c6vwyEmCNB1QYGBxw3BeozUDi-rrRmBrJqj5Xo_DnaLWp6xVVStXYUiR81OSgf_PRMY6rxqIZV/w339-h400/2_Flower_Laverne_Anthony_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="339" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A lot of people have used a plethora of things in place of a lens to make photographic images.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Prior to this project I can’t say I employed anything but a real photographic lens for this purpose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A couple college experiments with pinhole was enough for me to know that it’s not my cup of tea, and image samples I’ve seen from DIY optics so far failed to excite my imagination. Online I have found endless number of instructions for all sorts of homemade optics, including those using a regular simple magnifying glass.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even drinking straws have been used to capture an image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have not however found any mention of anyone using photographic loupes, whether those meant for ground glass focusing or negative examination.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Employing wet plate medium for this project was a natural choice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Incidentally, I picked up my very first loupe in spring of 2013, the same month that I learned wet plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Next year, Will Dunniway, a prominent figure in the world of wet plate, really catalyzed my interest in loupes, and through the years helped the collection grow. Sadly, Will Dunniway passed away in early April of this year, the same month that my collection did in fact reach goal number. That prompted me to start writing the larger post and to finally make these images.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Many shall miss Will, and these two posts are dedicated to his memory.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Technical challenges in creating these tintypes weren’t too numerous.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Main task was affixing those loupes to my camera.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without a universal iris clamp it would have been a minor nightmare to try out as many loupes as I did in order to select the dozen examples shown here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m glad to have experimented with plenty of vintage lenses in the past though, and for that task having a clamp like this is essential.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having it meant that I could swap my loupes in and out in matter of seconds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Working distance was also a bit of a trick to overcome.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Most loupes have miserably close focus of about one inch or so, and so their bottom edge needs to be almost right on the focal plane.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This meant that the bellows on my 4x5 needed to be compressed as much as they could be, and still with some lenses I couldn’t achieve focus on infinity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s ok though, I wasn’t set on making landscapes or portraits anyway.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also, due to such short focus, this optics turns out to have a very fast working aperture, and that means an extremely shallow depth of field.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This worked nicely though to exaggerate bokeh when getting up-close with various small organic objects I picked up along my travels, with the flower having been the only object specifically gathered for this project.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCljVeEpC1bWvrXDTMDBjbuxGAoWFIqVW03SPjew-gRK-PUlSV14FXgWErnoJe7cBqsFHaOCwHxMnzQYtHEc771kaEX8Y66NIxAFXRvP0xU8K01dyK_yoTG0Vc10cEor8zO4mxIb7gsWp/s1800/1_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe_Tintype.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCljVeEpC1bWvrXDTMDBjbuxGAoWFIqVW03SPjew-gRK-PUlSV14FXgWErnoJe7cBqsFHaOCwHxMnzQYtHEc771kaEX8Y66NIxAFXRvP0xU8K01dyK_yoTG0Vc10cEor8zO4mxIb7gsWp/w336-h400/1_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe_Tintype.jpg" width="336" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Above you can see the studio setup for most following close-up images, minus the large soft box out of frame view.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I started by working outside, but a few plates had odd ghosting effects, caused by light reflecting from shiny brass or lacquered black surfaces.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Keeping some of those plates, I later moved indoors for a more controlled environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Since the glass in these is almost never symmetrical, in order to see possible differences, two images of each object were made with same loupe: one image through top, and one through bottom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below images show two tintypes and the loupe they were captured with, with images positioned by respective end through which they were shot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each plate is 2.75x3.25in, which is a traditional 1/6<sup>th</sup> plate size; from that you can judge circle of coverage as well as approximate scale of loupes pictured.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYweSe8ce3nOeXEHOAnmEwt4TFO6Y_Hg-4hVDIAWxMiPvyvEuEElkgJHJTx22sj0aBjZgtWEasRUWcM-wcdvTGyTYZo9TGP16vs7hv-pqO_GLutPW1ykVk_LSPrrmrfNzXpzqGWCsIJvWz/s1200/Dallmeyer_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1099" data-original-width="1200" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYweSe8ce3nOeXEHOAnmEwt4TFO6Y_Hg-4hVDIAWxMiPvyvEuEElkgJHJTx22sj0aBjZgtWEasRUWcM-wcdvTGyTYZo9TGP16vs7hv-pqO_GLutPW1ykVk_LSPrrmrfNzXpzqGWCsIJvWz/w400-h366/Dallmeyer_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Early Dallmeyer</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jGOw4_Wucu-7AstBaPZPffkkGHmIcr6rNuvpofk9AOMhyACoF05e89bnfjNXeDrE_9Y-Ky7t_3-_rOLjZlu_r2d2QYyc3kcVfoMP4y5BYXztALTqA5Tp1njJ5fmFLZG696CNfY9Qg99d/s1200/Darlot_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="1200" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jGOw4_Wucu-7AstBaPZPffkkGHmIcr6rNuvpofk9AOMhyACoF05e89bnfjNXeDrE_9Y-Ky7t_3-_rOLjZlu_r2d2QYyc3kcVfoMP4y5BYXztALTqA5Tp1njJ5fmFLZG696CNfY9Qg99d/w400-h371/Darlot_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Darlot</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZ1iiZU523g4_DNUafh141Xwd0vWTid4EPhsq2OJCXSjmP_24MXga89PkWrsHmoG1RFq5zPM0BJJWOuVdiznnseBFyALvU8UZs2OBSNZGBOwO28Apt1opAvTZffEfqv0QvWA3E2EpWfUx/s1200/Emil_Busch_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1200" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTZ1iiZU523g4_DNUafh141Xwd0vWTid4EPhsq2OJCXSjmP_24MXga89PkWrsHmoG1RFq5zPM0BJJWOuVdiznnseBFyALvU8UZs2OBSNZGBOwO28Apt1opAvTZffEfqv0QvWA3E2EpWfUx/w400-h351/Emil_Busch_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Emil Busch</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_Ax7unV-nJC9gFhI9T9DrqvaCNqQfivqQsPbtRcgJeKsMgHW8_iMuukQ75ziu0AwKN_EvYM1fQp1G22JJbHz-BYw3TwhRNudqtg5PGY_C_iKCOF5ec5k_M_n9uH-9PMcOa15ZqP_kijf/s1203/Goerz_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_Ax7unV-nJC9gFhI9T9DrqvaCNqQfivqQsPbtRcgJeKsMgHW8_iMuukQ75ziu0AwKN_EvYM1fQp1G22JJbHz-BYw3TwhRNudqtg5PGY_C_iKCOF5ec5k_M_n9uH-9PMcOa15ZqP_kijf/w399-h400/Goerz_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="399" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">C. P. Goerz</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Sua9fjX7ec5GmxM9KWLrK_AXnE1JDvXeFzMmFqhzkTq4TsgxtlQIoGy6HHpAsCucTzfmBA_njNne1OKUOajyrVeBSkhTYQ1E4Nue-j_Lqitr0XQc4nXe_uIkjQNoNmslCAibJSgfTalG/s1200/Hermagis_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1200" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Sua9fjX7ec5GmxM9KWLrK_AXnE1JDvXeFzMmFqhzkTq4TsgxtlQIoGy6HHpAsCucTzfmBA_njNne1OKUOajyrVeBSkhTYQ1E4Nue-j_Lqitr0XQc4nXe_uIkjQNoNmslCAibJSgfTalG/w400-h396/Hermagis_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Hermagis</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8pQI6bmXrLXaR7Mp1vCWA7vqTZBGWg7A85aML-_xe-JSborkpsVn02hY7pqCPwVV0B2zbtixanu1N2a2-3ZmQdUGiZt0Mg1JzPz-7dRRKMbF8XTkHOVa84uKDVaBmQqtLO7wSwD1b8OW/s1200/Krauss_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1200" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8pQI6bmXrLXaR7Mp1vCWA7vqTZBGWg7A85aML-_xe-JSborkpsVn02hY7pqCPwVV0B2zbtixanu1N2a2-3ZmQdUGiZt0Mg1JzPz-7dRRKMbF8XTkHOVa84uKDVaBmQqtLO7wSwD1b8OW/w400-h351/Krauss_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">E. Krauss</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWUnGHaCQu2ToyV9VU9PTuIvoWnAACUdrASZqHeNjhjEURnvTTVsvxgYi1G1IN_iProCi28iGkwmd0ZbCZ6gEsGl7g7C759WojCYfyf8ae-j0BFJMIXx7-_sO-PtDw608ikVEx-vSB7_2/s1200/Laverne_Anthony_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="1200" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWUnGHaCQu2ToyV9VU9PTuIvoWnAACUdrASZqHeNjhjEURnvTTVsvxgYi1G1IN_iProCi28iGkwmd0ZbCZ6gEsGl7g7C759WojCYfyf8ae-j0BFJMIXx7-_sO-PtDw608ikVEx-vSB7_2/w400-h378/Laverne_Anthony_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">E. Anthony</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UNcBoXmuwmxIRf-i8bhceeT8Mipu_7E7tPGok48-fzdJHZFfJ3tB2Hcy_VH_OHcTkSv0RZZybTUTPuwdfkUyN8EZISLouGlE784Tr9fd2KTOBCphuNRyygKZjI-b4VghtVg2O4TUBh3q/s1200/Ross_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1200" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UNcBoXmuwmxIRf-i8bhceeT8Mipu_7E7tPGok48-fzdJHZFfJ3tB2Hcy_VH_OHcTkSv0RZZybTUTPuwdfkUyN8EZISLouGlE784Tr9fd2KTOBCphuNRyygKZjI-b4VghtVg2O4TUBh3q/w400-h378/Ross_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Ross</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoHDYaUCSx3cUNI8btXmHBLNt_xVX-bOVphEbP-xMXBM_MqpXXeH-PvlRnvMkKRlf78xkkuUiy7MvhxRgmBY0NZOKVEAp7yGd5IM3fCoE0U4XZiNtIEHLXiqgibmGN4L6tNnJtphPV1kc/s1200/Scovill_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1200" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoHDYaUCSx3cUNI8btXmHBLNt_xVX-bOVphEbP-xMXBM_MqpXXeH-PvlRnvMkKRlf78xkkuUiy7MvhxRgmBY0NZOKVEAp7yGd5IM3fCoE0U4XZiNtIEHLXiqgibmGN4L6tNnJtphPV1kc/w400-h384/Scovill_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Scovill</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE72_yqdPtuxsLqDGyxEjTbYiXoVkIPawmiZYLn3ARYElWgRPQqjRaCgA7QlGKbyrJsw9ciUMgULpRSPrA9RGUSv7eHwdPAn7bV1R3AoZ40gh4U0HzxEHI33c7aaxY2w7VhWp_2ehduEZh/s1200/Som_Berthiot_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1200" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE72_yqdPtuxsLqDGyxEjTbYiXoVkIPawmiZYLn3ARYElWgRPQqjRaCgA7QlGKbyrJsw9ciUMgULpRSPrA9RGUSv7eHwdPAn7bV1R3AoZ40gh4U0HzxEHI33c7aaxY2w7VhWp_2ehduEZh/w400-h355/Som_Berthiot_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">SOM Berthiot</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxW9zA_swn1ZJXOQPW1626aFj3lJOA6syhE9WVAWwmD070NmfNp07JZnG92iGP7alnX5j4AmYD9d0HnKRduoVy1_NLJ1CVToeNZnH_S44xsN243Uy0_R3FQXALLnm5hi_-2booWhtNsLNW/s1200/Steinhell_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1200" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxW9zA_swn1ZJXOQPW1626aFj3lJOA6syhE9WVAWwmD070NmfNp07JZnG92iGP7alnX5j4AmYD9d0HnKRduoVy1_NLJ1CVToeNZnH_S44xsN243Uy0_R3FQXALLnm5hi_-2booWhtNsLNW/w400-h373/Steinhell_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Focusing_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Steinhell</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETbYxCQyF9V947GzfM6aFnJw5Xpc4QOvqCsJtzs1ePDRofm__q7heJGfgBumMFbqiY1q5VKrFdke0LaO3-TTUoymLfrhYF-YLzhproqVwvHYBnR1TDk-FivwyvKdS469503IfFCOndgyv/s1200/Zeiss_Jena_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="1200" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETbYxCQyF9V947GzfM6aFnJw5Xpc4QOvqCsJtzs1ePDRofm__q7heJGfgBumMFbqiY1q5VKrFdke0LaO3-TTUoymLfrhYF-YLzhproqVwvHYBnR1TDk-FivwyvKdS469503IfFCOndgyv/w400-h366/Zeiss_Jena_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe_Tintype.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Zeiss Jena</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> In the end, I picked 20 images to make this collage in a 12x18in frame, and it is now available for your collection.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qcVuXjAwKOWyYSr7MJuDG8GEimVAJKUU4IqFVS87VTFWIr9haQ-U3Z_zqFl2c3vY8jz_SjLzsT3bU_UYZE5QIW87vVV4LZYf_3JwjTFEwGvB4wP5Sc0OGVfo-o3oxrDPfu9cA-Tjg0vq/s1200/20_Tintypes_Framed_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="829" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qcVuXjAwKOWyYSr7MJuDG8GEimVAJKUU4IqFVS87VTFWIr9haQ-U3Z_zqFl2c3vY8jz_SjLzsT3bU_UYZE5QIW87vVV4LZYf_3JwjTFEwGvB4wP5Sc0OGVfo-o3oxrDPfu9cA-Tjg0vq/w442-h640/20_Tintypes_Framed_Photo_Palace_Anton_Orlov_Brass_Loupe.jpg" width="442" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Twenty 1/6th Plate Tintypes in 12x18in Frame</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A great deal of thanks is in order for all the wonderful people from around the world who helped me grow my collection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ve had help from U.S., Poland, U.K, France, Germany, and even Thailand. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You know who you are folks, and you know how much I appreciate you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thank You!<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Readers should note that I am not yet done collecting loupes, and am always looking for examples that I don’t have.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you have an old focusing loupe made of metal, and you don’t see it in this post or its companion, please do send me a picture of it; I would be glad to tell you whether I have it or not, and if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t have it I’d love to talk sale or trade.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of course I’m not counting on being able to find every variation of every generation loupe made by every company ever, but I’d like to grow my collection by another 42% or so before I can call it quits for good.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With a bit of help from decent kind people that goal isn’t as unattainable as it may seem.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Brief History and Development of Ground Glass Focusing Loupes is a companion post to this one, and can be found by clicking <a href="https://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2021/05/brief-history-and-development-of-ground.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br />Anton<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-9026558876936355382021-05-07T14:50:00.006-07:002021-05-07T15:47:58.555-07:00Brief History and Development of Ground Glass Focusing Loupes<p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This post is dedicated to a very helpful yet often-overlooked photographic accessory.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After scouring the web, at this point I have only been able to find few brief entries dedicated to those devices, so I hope my writing will be found helpful by inquisitive minds interested in history of photo equipment.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2021/05/tintypes-made-using-focusing-loupes-as.html" target="_blank">Tintypes Made Using Focusing Loupes as Lenses</a> is a companion post to this one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Capturing images in this exact manner is something that to my knowledge has not been done before, though of course I am always ready to be proven otherwise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtI69y0yr1ZGAo9lp8BtYJbVRMcGx0Pmo8U9hEMKBUDkSKNNu6WqHBXvKqtgrN0oAeLg2JdbGAW23oUNkFj1460jJp0ECT0bEmd7fZMHQfxon392KWRFlTV1LfjM1TNEemtTFiqb_XxLa7/s526/X_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupes_Text_From_Ferrotypes_How_To_Make_Them.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="526" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtI69y0yr1ZGAo9lp8BtYJbVRMcGx0Pmo8U9hEMKBUDkSKNNu6WqHBXvKqtgrN0oAeLg2JdbGAW23oUNkFj1460jJp0ECT0bEmd7fZMHQfxon392KWRFlTV1LfjM1TNEemtTFiqb_XxLa7/w400-h120/X_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupes_Text_From_Ferrotypes_How_To_Make_Them.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">From 1872 book 'Ferrotypes And How To Make Them'</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My passion for vintage large format focusing loupes was sparked by a visit to Will Dunniway’s home about seven years ago.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A pillar within wet collodion community, Will Dunniway was kind and generous, with a real passion for history and craft of wet plate process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>During my first very brief visit to Will’s, I noticed a display cabinet on his wall, which was filled with beautiful little brass gems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At that point I only had one loupe, acquired in early 2013 from the estate of late Ernst Purdum, who was famous in photo circles for his extensive knowledge of photographic shutters and their history and mechanical development.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After his passing, Mr. Purdum’s massive estate ended up in a second hand retail shop.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was from there that I picked up my first<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>loupe by Taylor Taylor & Hobson loupe. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My main interest has always been in producing images, and knowledge of equipment needed to fulfill particular results is therefore essential but not central; other than admiring it’s minty finish, didn’t think much of my first little loupe, until my eyes caught sight of that cabinet at Will’s place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I got home, I searched about the web to see what was available on this topic, but my inquest came up woefully short.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This lack of information acted to further strengthen my resolve to learn as much as possible, and to share my findings with the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Through the years, I visited Will’s place a number of times, and purchased or traded for more than a few choice pieces from that cabinet. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sadly, Will passed away on April 8<sup>th</sup> of this year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was thinking of waiting to make this post until I reach 10 years of collecting, but decided to rather do so now in memory of Will Dunniway, may he rest in peace.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2exZXAFTxZRNfu8bKJPg52uJixKj6afjUuOOfhOnDd7uRccCw-4gGdwbkkIFhOayU8fiM0Xp3M9-Zv0K-gGd2oOCXeFS2OrHCtpDa5Sg71Jc4p6oSS7uXpJ3jbPHhtGXKWYtwBAXODr_/s2048/X_Will_Dunniway_Loupes.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1685" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2exZXAFTxZRNfu8bKJPg52uJixKj6afjUuOOfhOnDd7uRccCw-4gGdwbkkIFhOayU8fiM0Xp3M9-Zv0K-gGd2oOCXeFS2OrHCtpDa5Sg71Jc4p6oSS7uXpJ3jbPHhtGXKWYtwBAXODr_/w329-h400/X_Will_Dunniway_Loupes.JPG" width="329" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Will Dunniway collection as seen years ago </span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Challenges of gathering antique brass loupes and information about them are as follows.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First off, they are generally small, and to someone who is not an avid large format photographer it’s not obvious what they are, so vast majority of loupes must have gotten lost or tossed out when someone died and their relatives wouldn’t know what they were. Lets face it, half of that small percentage of photographers who even shoot large format today would likely not recognize some of these for what they are.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Secondly, most of them have no engraving or stamp, and those that do vey rarely mention anything other than the maker, so sellers have a hard time describing them precisely.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>More than one maker made not just different iterations of their loupes, but in each generation there would have been 3 or more various sizes offered, and so there’s thin hope for assembling an entire line of 6 or 9 variants.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Add to that the fact that there are a myriad other types of loupes out there, and the fact that a lot of other small optical pieces could easily be confused for loupes and would actually function as such to some degree.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even in Will’s cabinet pictured above, of 36 objects seen 10 are in fact not loupes at all, but this will be addressed later. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just what is a ground glass focusing loupe, and how is it different from other similar objects?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By definition, ground glass focusing loupes are made specifically to aid photographers with bringing the image upon their large format camera ground glass to critical focus point.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To ease this crucial task, photographers at times use a countless number of DIY magnifiers and gadgets, but nothing beats a well-made loupe designed for that exact job.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These loupes should be able to focus sharply at a distance of about 2mm from the bottom edge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A ground glass focusing loupe also has a completely opaque body, which blocks stray light and brightens the image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their magnifying power varies from around 4x to 8x and even 10x, though most seem to be at about 6x.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Since the ground side of the glass is perfectly flat, most makers went through the trouble of making sure their loupes have a relatively flat field of focus, something that isn’t as crucial in botanical magnifiers for example. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ll quickly note here that as far as actual use a lot of other things can replace an actual true ground glass loupe; loupes made for negative examination are nearly identical in all respects, map reading magnifiers and even hand-held loupes can be used.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>19<sup>th</sup> century magnifiers for botanical specimens often also very closely resemble focusing loupes, and can focus in the correct plane. I have used center group from Canon 28-80mm lenses as high power magnifiers, and with one camera I purchased came a thing someone made from a film canister and a single element with some enlarging power glued into it, and that thing also worked to show the image larger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I feel that a lot of photographers may actually resort to using all sorts of substitutes simply because they may not even be aware that specific focusing aid loupes do in fact exist, and so I hope this post helps out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Variety wise, photo loupes seem to have been not as plentiful as lenses, cameras, and other equipment; after all, they were meant to do one thing only, and how many ways can one achieve that rather straightforward task?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Still however, there’s more than enough to explore and marvel at.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simplest photographic loupes have no focus adjustment at all, or basically a minimal capacity for that, with top glass on a thread, which can be unscrewed a bit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These loupes usually have just one element, and image quality is not exactly great. Next level up have a way to slide central part up or down, to adjust for personal eye sight of each photographer, as well as to change focal plane to ground glass of different thicknesses.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Better ones will have either a sliding or turning central adjustable part, which is then locked in place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcss3l0PSzTK6N9vbyMQWdax6BHZesDcNw_0d3BGkAaIX6JcsVWA3xs513cL77CBxhvHhopxQYNkaITpdPWyS3vM0C6pUc2UrQiNhWkLkadjBOh6QZQa7oSfYzxxXgJ8JdWGrIDrC548WS/s1200/1_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcss3l0PSzTK6N9vbyMQWdax6BHZesDcNw_0d3BGkAaIX6JcsVWA3xs513cL77CBxhvHhopxQYNkaITpdPWyS3vM0C6pUc2UrQiNhWkLkadjBOh6QZQa7oSfYzxxXgJ8JdWGrIDrC548WS/w400-h266/1_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">No focus, focus with no lock, focus and lock</span></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simplest way to have a loupe be able to focus of course is one tube sliding within another one; only simple precise machining is required for a fairly tight fit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For more control, some companies made that central part have a spiral or even a full-fledged thread; this makes adjustment more precise, but the finer the thread is more turns it takes to get it to where you want it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A more complex mechanism involved a guiding pin placed on outer surface of inner barrel, and a slightly spiral channel in outer body part for that pin to ride inside (though of course that channel was hidden buy outer skirt).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is a very smooth and exact way of achieving focus, but indeed it required a whole bunch more machining and assembly, so not a lot of loupes exhibit it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbanVznjILQ_RXxqbmpFm9e3GZ_1UvnGN4IdAABOlqxOa_aboU3bhMOuxK0-BBNodWs33xhihEFEYUN9xXyz4BLCxMwW1WdPTr4dHed_UghVFwArVptEJcpBICqDn4bk_mQ6UW90fUpbG/s1200/2_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbanVznjILQ_RXxqbmpFm9e3GZ_1UvnGN4IdAABOlqxOa_aboU3bhMOuxK0-BBNodWs33xhihEFEYUN9xXyz4BLCxMwW1WdPTr4dHed_UghVFwArVptEJcpBICqDn4bk_mQ6UW90fUpbG/w400-h266/2_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Types of central columns</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To lock that central sliding part in place of correct focus, most loupes have a threaded ring on outer part of the body.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As that ring is screwed down, it presses inward upon carefully cut wings, and that locks central column in place. Some makers resorted to a simpler setting screw.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yet others had their loupes focus via a long thread that had a stop-ring on same thread.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapscLwPimIV9xHtdrZdhoQICwBn6Xk-n2D7b3LBG_ANkZyQTlz0Ishup7mKkjzNtm25xOT1iN5o1pMcrE3HiTJPVNvOAfDhELMACLcTezKro9la-g3iTvcgQiOTszhZM6S9vYKda9uKwO/s1200/3_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapscLwPimIV9xHtdrZdhoQICwBn6Xk-n2D7b3LBG_ANkZyQTlz0Ishup7mKkjzNtm25xOT1iN5o1pMcrE3HiTJPVNvOAfDhELMACLcTezKro9la-g3iTvcgQiOTszhZM6S9vYKda9uKwO/w400-h266/3_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Types of locking systems </span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;">Glass configuration varied drastically; from simple one-glass magnifiers akin to hand-held reading aid, to complex systems with cemented crown and flint glass elements.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Most good models have a single element on top, and a cemented double at bottom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>More complex loupes had complex achromatic groupings of elements both on top and bottom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below at left are elements with a spacer from Waterbury loupe, and at right are three cemented elements by Goerz.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMn2VahhjwFR3vZ_go3wMKmHMn7lboC8EDX2v3Ccpg7VzpUbVk-psdiptCXNTezFrNGDXmL1Jpl3E5y0iyAVgW_1Db8XhGyH03_zVHBc-xbSU0QQUQuovsXSO60far29yhh46mfYghOXK/s1200/4_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMn2VahhjwFR3vZ_go3wMKmHMn7lboC8EDX2v3Ccpg7VzpUbVk-psdiptCXNTezFrNGDXmL1Jpl3E5y0iyAVgW_1Db8XhGyH03_zVHBc-xbSU0QQUQuovsXSO60far29yhh46mfYghOXK/w400-h266/4_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Two glass configurations</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just like lenses and cameras, loupes were also rebranded, and multiple retailers often sold exact same ones.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some loupes may have been sold without company engraving, while others were finished differently.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For example a Hansa loupe is identical to Zeiss Ikon, except Hansa has an incredible enamel finish and is made of brass rather than aluminum that Zeiss went with.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Did Hansa buy rights for that deign or did they have Zeiss make them a batch from a metal they considered better, and then enameled them in Japan?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hard to tell now, but they surely are related.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dallmeyer seems to have copied Ross loupes almost completely except for making them shorter, Montauk ones are identical to those marked Waterbury, Busch loupes were also sold by various retailers engraved with their own labels, etc.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11fMnuaTyBPdLchvpp-SWv_7jC5kf1Ya4U2g91lr9cq2UCw8k_nOZRR8m2DbTG9chx9IOSPP0Gz8oSHFJ7r7DDvUUEijCwSmxUoMbQ5AyTYPi7TV9R-cYyK3Lznq9uY7mkLS3j_FZtWtK/s1200/5_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="1200" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11fMnuaTyBPdLchvpp-SWv_7jC5kf1Ya4U2g91lr9cq2UCw8k_nOZRR8m2DbTG9chx9IOSPP0Gz8oSHFJ7r7DDvUUEijCwSmxUoMbQ5AyTYPi7TV9R-cYyK3Lznq9uY7mkLS3j_FZtWtK/w400-h194/5_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Rebranding samples</span></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s usually rather difficult to determine date of manufacture with these objects.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are rarely marked in any way, and of those that have an engraving few have a serial number, which is also near impossible to trace for vast majority of vintage manufacturers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Endlessly searching though old catalogs can at times give a glimpse of which configuration of the loupe was made in which decade by which company, but some makers kept their loupes the same for decades, while others have no catalogs available for search online. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a while of working with antique brass lenses, one can start seeing similarities in progression of types of brass and lacquer used by makers, and that can be used to place a loupe within this decade or another with relative degree of accuracy.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I believe one of the oldest loupes in my collection is probably the Scovill Focusing Glass pictured below at left. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It seems that they haven’t changed their form from early 1860s through 1880s, and so this loupe in theory can be from any year in that period, but basically it’s the same ‘60s loupe. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the middle is a loupe seen in LaVerne catalogs from France, and it seems it was imported and sold by Edward Anthony as well; it dates from mid-1870.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Judging by machining and type of brass and lacquer used, Darlot loupe on the right is also likely from either late 60s or early 70s.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m not certain when Ross or Dallmeyer started making their loupes, so I didn’t include those in this group of old-timers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdYbwWGG7AARhQDCrH_w8gM136CMR6FtyhacFeFm_vtWuIWrJNFtTOzYSSdo2eTKdT5E1bZf6UDKcVjs93gzDVFk8YC1C1NG2r-ljw2BvwTKadS0iQNbyQewhULaqHPrrMpW48fZtH-9g/s1200/6_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdYbwWGG7AARhQDCrH_w8gM136CMR6FtyhacFeFm_vtWuIWrJNFtTOzYSSdo2eTKdT5E1bZf6UDKcVjs93gzDVFk8YC1C1NG2r-ljw2BvwTKadS0iQNbyQewhULaqHPrrMpW48fZtH-9g/w400-h266/6_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Scovill, Anthony, and Darlot</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Parisian lens maker Hermagis is credited with inventing spiral shaped central columns, which make the process of tuning the loupe to your eyes very precise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some of their loupes have no spiral, but instead employ the guide-pin system; I’m assuming those are later type, but am looking for find even one of those in an actual catalog for verification.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some of their models are plain brass finish, some black lacquer, and some bodied came covered in leather.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The spiral central column design was copied endlessly through Europe, and no-name examples of these are probably the most common of all loupes to come up for sale. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All spiral loupes I’ve seen sport a single element on top and cemented double at bottom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s possible that the central spiral tube was bought in standard length, and then, if top and bottom glass needed to be moved apart a bit more, a ring of appropriate height was soldered onto the spiral.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Occasionally an example with much finer thread is seen in the wild, but for the most part the spiral is nearly identical through many models and makes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bzhpQrWV_P4lXULKLr61tgG9iNHFBvakTjt3T6oG12nuzwkHRBZSy90MFsgRkSHAZIJmmFd-ZIq8FAelhp9S480fjjHiiTpUAmutBFhoJUkLopEDlhc1L2jXWM3Y9kaANJypt9NV9rdS/s1200/7_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1200" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bzhpQrWV_P4lXULKLr61tgG9iNHFBvakTjt3T6oG12nuzwkHRBZSy90MFsgRkSHAZIJmmFd-ZIq8FAelhp9S480fjjHiiTpUAmutBFhoJUkLopEDlhc1L2jXWM3Y9kaANJypt9NV9rdS/w400-h221/7_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Hermagis and 'Hermagis Type'</span></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Darlot loupe design was kept around almost unchanged for at least 30 years, and it also sprung a bunch of nameless copies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Other companies even advertised their loupes as ‘Darlot Type’. Darlot brass type and lacquer finish changed through the years, very much consistent with their lens bodies from same time periods.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below are a Darlot loupe that was likely made around mid 1880s, and three examples of other makers copying same general design.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdCX8LRgdpGZGZOyGO3r-sweLPmmlUZl8m4MlrHZPi0cG_PJcfmrABlWAsaM8zauPTqraEBfMmUYJUCXXz4c7wV-KAb65Ms6xt5CybJCok8wxVasNfFGhaTpyiWDeLyDTZwegvGZ0F4rWU/s1200/8_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdCX8LRgdpGZGZOyGO3r-sweLPmmlUZl8m4MlrHZPi0cG_PJcfmrABlWAsaM8zauPTqraEBfMmUYJUCXXz4c7wV-KAb65Ms6xt5CybJCok8wxVasNfFGhaTpyiWDeLyDTZwegvGZ0F4rWU/w400-h266/8_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Darlot and 'Darlot Type'</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;">Most loupes are between 40mm and 60mm when closed, and extend by 10-20mm, average weight of about 100-150g. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Space is often a consideration for photographers on the go though, so some loupes were made in miniature sizes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This makes them even more susceptible to being lost of course and the image is tiny, but in a pinch they work quite well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below example of an early E. Krauss loupe is only 30mm tall, and weighs 54g.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If space is in fact of absolutely no concern, and if one really wants to get the widest field of view while having a marvelous object in their hand, then the obvious only choice is the Grande Model loupe by Hermagis.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This mid-188s giant weighs in at 235g, and stands 105mm tall when extended.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhg56-EHVL-gQHoI3mB0fRrJvpBkzvmtkokKaORaUkF3p3Nv3Sa5s3I7CcfoaHfYUfLebLvWTEOj1CNo7UJw0W6bfw4k2CLQ759qsBAvoWr430qON5SENB7txLoCvLH4yWQ6Z_KlJIZGV/s1200/9_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="898" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhg56-EHVL-gQHoI3mB0fRrJvpBkzvmtkokKaORaUkF3p3Nv3Sa5s3I7CcfoaHfYUfLebLvWTEOj1CNo7UJw0W6bfw4k2CLQ759qsBAvoWr430qON5SENB7txLoCvLH4yWQ6Z_KlJIZGV/w299-h400/9_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="299" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Grande Model and early E.Krauss</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hermagis deserves another quick mention here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ground glass can be scratched by the bottom metal edge of loupes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To prevent this, on one of their models, Hermagis inlaid a ring of whale baleen in most careful and beautiful manner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the only example lined with baleen I have seen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Later loupes were made of plastic, but among brass-bodied loupes this may have been the only meaningful effort to protect the glass from scratches, and what an elegant effort it was.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-7wfFP0nfghdmTeHshmC0eEZI0xXMTM7BhC4rS7M8fGKTQnoOFabQJ4ELFLX6YG41fyd0m99cG4EM3_OPcuvbV33i1MpCIr0Hv34M0dxVZnwbV0vSUQNjdYjE7IRWU_AJ_jTgz8dPrZw/s1200/10_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-7wfFP0nfghdmTeHshmC0eEZI0xXMTM7BhC4rS7M8fGKTQnoOFabQJ4ELFLX6YG41fyd0m99cG4EM3_OPcuvbV33i1MpCIr0Hv34M0dxVZnwbV0vSUQNjdYjE7IRWU_AJ_jTgz8dPrZw/w400-h266/10_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Baleen lining in Hermagis loupe</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;">For clear focus, bottom edge of loupe is placed squarely against the ground glass, with line of sight being at 90 degrees to glass. At times, the spot you want to check focus on is a bit lower or higher than the angle you can comfortably bring your eye to, and a few companies gave their lopes the ability to tilt, so you can look into it from above or below.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Notice that they tilt around the central axis of bottom plane, because that is where the focus is adjusted for ground glass depth; if you just keep one point of the edge on the glass, focus plane will be lifted, and your loupe will be totally out of focus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbns9uHlpxW-NuCsNUhIR8pqFxnQQIdWj9iEM5nSr5U2qjNlxmz9Nb3ZyIKuk7MxVVaFOq4VrMtLpu5KybhFJ6yZiAVdRxITJapjQtc4t-zy4BxlqcrcHdlIQMZeBBJ3Ns_rRq3KvPX_D4/s1200/11_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbns9uHlpxW-NuCsNUhIR8pqFxnQQIdWj9iEM5nSr5U2qjNlxmz9Nb3ZyIKuk7MxVVaFOq4VrMtLpu5KybhFJ6yZiAVdRxITJapjQtc4t-zy4BxlqcrcHdlIQMZeBBJ3Ns_rRq3KvPX_D4/w400-h266/11_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tilting Darlot and E. Krauss</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another problem one sometimes encounters in the field is checking critical focus along the very edge of ground glass, because it is usually sunken into the wood or metal frame around it by a millimeter or two, so edge of your loupe hits that edge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This sole example by Taylor’ Taylor & Hobson, with its lovely patina, combats this problem by having a small cutout in bottom edge, which allows it to stay perpendicular to the glass while going over the frame wood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In theory, tilting loupes seen in above picture can also answer the call, because their center can also be brought closer to the edge than most.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDY-urJXrIO9Muh5yKFmdxvNKl4zlNi83wA9gI2BSpkBeokGxHsgfYFBQNDF3n0S2rZlh4frUal3yXORFjaZSS6rTB3oZkTYNuW8X4LuJJfSAA8Vm4VeVQ_THcx3t75x0e5CXySsSWqRoP/s1200/12_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDY-urJXrIO9Muh5yKFmdxvNKl4zlNi83wA9gI2BSpkBeokGxHsgfYFBQNDF3n0S2rZlh4frUal3yXORFjaZSS6rTB3oZkTYNuW8X4LuJJfSAA8Vm4VeVQ_THcx3t75x0e5CXySsSWqRoP/w400-h266/12_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Taylor Taylor & Hobson with cutout</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think that the first time anyone who ever glanced upon the ground glass of a regular large format camera, they may have been a bit confused by the image being upside down and left to right reversed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After having worked with LF cameras for over 20 years, I now see what my college professors were saying about the benefits of this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having an image reversed serves in some subliminal way to detach the ground glass image from what is actually happening in front of the lens, so lines, tones, and other compositional elements stand on their own, uncoupled from reality by being inversed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not everyone shares this sentiment, and so we all know of those large reversing prisms that go behind ground glass and orient the image correctly from at least top to bottom by the use of a mirror. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some loupe makers attempted to offer photographers that same solution by adding an extra element between the two groups, and having that element reverse the image in both directions. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Using a loupe like that is actually not as fun as it may seem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First off their magnifying power is really high, so you end up seeing too much of the actual gran structure of your ground glass. Plus area of view is also rather limited, so you have to move it around lot to find where those point of interest are.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I tried using these loupes, I could not for the life of me get used to having the image slide upward as I’m moving the loupe down, and also it makes you want to move it in the wrong direction to begin with.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Still, it’s a novel innovation worth mentioning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IYanw9T0gQsUXPEoZy0kIJUL0BteQ6JMv0OwEOuGC6ZTMtHibQaJQL7JqkDUJ0ECmAEfr3qAsMCWwaIkX_YyRrYdDfkzPeXcjaN1JImkFpGF4QkyRzXSEselOp6S_CJwq6Iwam0Sy5Ea/s1200/13_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IYanw9T0gQsUXPEoZy0kIJUL0BteQ6JMv0OwEOuGC6ZTMtHibQaJQL7JqkDUJ0ECmAEfr3qAsMCWwaIkX_YyRrYdDfkzPeXcjaN1JImkFpGF4QkyRzXSEselOp6S_CJwq6Iwam0Sy5Ea/w400-h266/13_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Image reversing loupes</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With the advent of smaller cameras in late 1890s and through 1930s, there came to be a lot of folding cameras that still had a ground glass on back, but were meant to be hand-held.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Holding the camera, focusing it, and also holding a loupe against the glass is a trick that only select Hindu gods can perform with ease, but for those of us with only two hands, some companies had a bright idea to make tips of their loupes into little rubber suction cups.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I imagine this worked pretty well when they were new, but those early forms of rubber would become hard and very brittle after a while, and so all those loupes now have that rubber either missing completely, or it’s hard as a rock, and usually with cracks and chips missing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3ThcR_-rCNIeZNHKd52nw5QrCsiNjsoaoLZdN4AXQdt0JJGGH_oTkl3gQOMAUiIusLBAGrCiDZFUZ2DwNPgHM0eCXy_Xpjq9lip4LZ41J-u-T6iaO0kMh8u-wB-DFT4HEN9HfJSPN11a/s1200/14_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3ThcR_-rCNIeZNHKd52nw5QrCsiNjsoaoLZdN4AXQdt0JJGGH_oTkl3gQOMAUiIusLBAGrCiDZFUZ2DwNPgHM0eCXy_Xpjq9lip4LZ41J-u-T6iaO0kMh8u-wB-DFT4HEN9HfJSPN11a/w400-h266/14_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Suction cup loupes</span></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Those smaller cameras also often had a leather hood that would pop up to reveal the ground glass and shield it from stray light.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In more modern cameras, Graflex has a metal shade in back.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Getting your hand with a loupe in there is nearly impossible, and so a longer loupe is very handy in those situations.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Aside from the collapsible example shown above, 1950s Ednalite answers the task very well, though I can’t say it’s the sharpest loupe on the shelf.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are also quite a few examples to be found by Wista, and, provided that the glass is reinserted correctly after cleaning, which wasn’t the case with mine when I first received it, it’s actually a very sharp loupe.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEM-5b1TU0tqTCGtnWSE4-FZEm4s34aVGmKT98x3J89qOiQvRqt3LToQGysqBlFzetTJlVW0IE7ypqprepmNSsmVNi96VFvFf-8pggrgce1B11squ2Sf5ch7kumUcJ9tXqwijeLzZ-7znb/s1080/15_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="798" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEM-5b1TU0tqTCGtnWSE4-FZEm4s34aVGmKT98x3J89qOiQvRqt3LToQGysqBlFzetTJlVW0IE7ypqprepmNSsmVNi96VFvFf-8pggrgce1B11squ2Sf5ch7kumUcJ9tXqwijeLzZ-7znb/w295-h400/15_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="295" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Long body loupes</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some loupes came with a provision for their own little ground glass, which would slide onto or screw to the bottom side.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Turn that ground glass toward you, and you can actually focus on the scene in front of you, which basically serves as a quick preview viewfinder. Provided that you’re shooting with about a ‘normal focal length’ lens, this can aid you in selecting a good spot to set up the camera.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a bit of a gimmick, as the image is small and not easy to see, but it’s the nifty thought that counts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seeing the first loupe with such attachment is what gave me the idea of making a series of images by using loupes as lenses.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgWWEUYGTOk9wXfjTRBBTy3lQXuHZS5t-SjUA0cipFU2KdUd-31hLCocF_LxKHihRj3RxJX-wPONQa1DelW9PBxLueVeOYufDM_r71NT1Oz0KjOWCzye5GtafTKQuVANiFLgR8WTvrAKL/s1200/16_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgWWEUYGTOk9wXfjTRBBTy3lQXuHZS5t-SjUA0cipFU2KdUd-31hLCocF_LxKHihRj3RxJX-wPONQa1DelW9PBxLueVeOYufDM_r71NT1Oz0KjOWCzye5GtafTKQuVANiFLgR8WTvrAKL/w400-h266/16_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Loupes with viewfinder attachments</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Loupes are among the smallest of objects in a large format photographer’s bag, but it’s also pretty handy to always have it by your side without fear of losing it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hence the old solution of putting a neck strap on whatever you need rapid access to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Surprisingly, not a lot of loupes actually came with neck strap provisions, and in those that did the string loop is often missing.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfq4xTNuC71OLYw26MHRemLw0enrx1hItoV4wAacUzoczTsDzN2GqmnC5MTUT2MTnUWLpQW_1axGLweKXFb43fP1llmfhCNm1kMY5PJLAN46mMw8993HEcU3_pt6i_np46xgLzCIHvX83/s1200/17_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfq4xTNuC71OLYw26MHRemLw0enrx1hItoV4wAacUzoczTsDzN2GqmnC5MTUT2MTnUWLpQW_1axGLweKXFb43fP1llmfhCNm1kMY5PJLAN46mMw8993HEcU3_pt6i_np46xgLzCIHvX83/w400-h266/17_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Neck strap loops</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vintage focusing loupes are hard to find in general, and so to come upon them with original carrying cases is a great treat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Only about 10% of my collection have original cases, and below are a few examples.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some were supplied in a Moroccan leather cases akin to those for Waterhouse stops cases, others made paper or pressed board boxes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At some point in time, TT&H chose to make their cases from thin wood veneer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some cases were hard and lined with velvet in a formed shape, while others were but a suede satchel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Limpet loupes, which originally had both a rubber end and a circular ground glass that could be inserted into that rubber, came in a thin tin canister.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyEDaWaOMTa_52A8jlHHz1VmNkoJgFPzgycUiBqQCQDQDcSIHnEpzOgDYkxGW6zT2hJrePQLwTD2M6bjAMnaEVP5tNQjZ8HTTHJoYE6h0MY5SAjl4Ixxs5GvOX7L6m4RXSUdjrPgwaAMP/s1191/18_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1191" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyEDaWaOMTa_52A8jlHHz1VmNkoJgFPzgycUiBqQCQDQDcSIHnEpzOgDYkxGW6zT2hJrePQLwTD2M6bjAMnaEVP5tNQjZ8HTTHJoYE6h0MY5SAjl4Ixxs5GvOX7L6m4RXSUdjrPgwaAMP/w400-h255/18_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Various original cases</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Being worried about losing one of the vintage ones, in the field I use a Nikon 7x and in studio my go to is this Sima, made in West Germany back when there was such a country. Both of them are exceptionally sharp, though some of the better antique examples aren’t far off quality wise either.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the past I’ve tried a few Peak and Wista loupes, and they were very well made.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I assume Horseman wouldn’t have made a bad loupe, but I never did hold one in hand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2SF0KhNLFNXOMUVofNc67PsDTWSvokyBtJMAd4ODJ8rU9UmOGhyphenhyphenhiElGLv9UP3qSwmzmCu0NxjgUGtVqxj7mbbTJK4BonpHDC68nJRRZgfY4mBGkbsCFcTQgt1Y8AWRafZ9QM7HG_nzM/s1200/19_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="810" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2SF0KhNLFNXOMUVofNc67PsDTWSvokyBtJMAd4ODJ8rU9UmOGhyphenhyphenhiElGLv9UP3qSwmzmCu0NxjgUGtVqxj7mbbTJK4BonpHDC68nJRRZgfY4mBGkbsCFcTQgt1Y8AWRafZ9QM7HG_nzM/w270-h400/19_Brass_Ground_Glass_Focusing_Loupe_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="270" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">More modern loupes</span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think this about covers most all loupe variants I came across.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For the sake of those who are just learning, I feel I should add a brief word of caution.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the past few years, interest in loupes seems to have grown tenfold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not sure if this is due to some great influx of large format photographers with poor eyesight, or maybe the fact that over that time every once in a while I would put out open calls for them on social media.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Either way, prices have tripled if not more, though some sellers actually don’t try and gouge and keep things at reasonable prices. In latest development, careless sellers are misbranding things that aren’t loupes at all, whether knowingly or not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For example, it’s relatively easy to see that a toy magic lantern lens isn’t a loupe, but with just a bit of an imagination stretch, their ability to focus on needed plane of ground glass can spell Euro signs as far as sales. Meant for eventual destruction by playful and maybe less than attentive children, these objects are cheaply made of very thin metal, with simple glass being held in place by a spring.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They do happen to focus on the ground glass, but aren’t lockable and the image is much more poor than in good examples of actual ground glass loupes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Microscope eyepieces also sometimes happen to focus just in the right plane to work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I actually wrote here that I have so far not seen those sold as loupes, but right as I was editing this post, indeed one shown in a collage below appeared on eBay; it’s not brass, it’s not a loupe, and that seller should know better.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A seller in France appears to have a monocular mislabeled as a loupe, and it’s been on eBay for at least a few years now. I tried multiple times to confirm whether that’s a loupe or not, but he never did answer his messages.<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyiGnShkdrApiB-W06UH4kOVvy8owzlc4CmH15XmRshgpIqXOekemUi3IVAmHQgZyRdKtDUKECt0y3sJbh7dSkQA2eKzLb0J6iOnuf5EKqt-LDnoltSmpN9q-H5HmJkmVICw5__lt2UO8O/s591/Fake_Grpund_Glass_Focusing_Loupes.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="591" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyiGnShkdrApiB-W06UH4kOVvy8owzlc4CmH15XmRshgpIqXOekemUi3IVAmHQgZyRdKtDUKECt0y3sJbh7dSkQA2eKzLb0J6iOnuf5EKqt-LDnoltSmpN9q-H5HmJkmVICw5__lt2UO8O/w400-h323/Fake_Grpund_Glass_Focusing_Loupes.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Not ground glass focusing loupes</span></span></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would like to extend a great deal of gratitude not only to the late Will Dunniway, but to all those who helped my collection though the years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I couldn’t have done this in such a relatively short time without support of dedicated loupe hunters scattered around the globe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their selfless generosity stands in stark contrast to blind competitiveness observed elsewhere. You know who you are folks, and the world is a better place with you in it. Thank you!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh, and a good collection is never finished. I wouldn’t want to give an impression that I am done hunting for examples that I don’t yet have.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In fact, I ask any kind reader who thinks they may have a vintage loupe that I don’t have to email me, and I would be glad to talk of possible purchase or trade.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"> Thanks for reading, and again, here's a link to the post about <a href="https://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2021/05/tintypes-made-using-focusing-loupes-as.html" target="_blank">Tintypes Made Using Focusing Loupes As Lenses</a>.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica;">Anton </span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-31438177098961147992021-04-20T14:06:00.008-07:002021-04-21T15:37:48.018-07:00Death Valley Daguerreotypes With Grandma<p><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Last week I had a pleasure of taking my grandma, who is turning 90 this year, on a short trip to Death Valley.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">She has wanted to see it for years, and twice even made solid plans to go there with her friends, but both times plans fell through, and so this time we weren’t taking any chances.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My grandmother had a long and hard life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Born in Siberia, her Jewish family moved to Moscow shortly before WWII, and so at the age of 10 she was among those evacuated from the capitol as German forces were advancing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After the war, they returned to the ruins of the city, and my grandma went to dentistry school, working in a clinic for the next 40+ years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A small detail makes those distant years a bit more tangible; even while living in Moscow, they didn’t have running water or in-home heating until late 1960s, when they moved into a newly built apartment, my mother was going into 6<sup>th</sup> grade at the time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In early 90s, along with all of us, she watched as the country she was born in and to which she dedicated all her life fall apart and splinter, and then our small family immigrated to the US at when she was 64, and so she had to learn a whole new language and culture. She's a strong resilient woman, who survived poverty and atrocity, and managed to have a supportive circle of friends all through her life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I was a kid, it was my grandma who took me on most of my travels and vacations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The amount of time and nerves she spent attending to this troublesome child go uncounted, and so showing her Death Valley was a personal treat and honor. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As you can imagine, the long drive was filled with fascinating stories of the days of yore, where I learned a bit more about my ancestors, and I’ll treasure those plates.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One such story I feel deserves to be written here in brief form.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My grandfather, from whom I caught the photo-fever when I was just 7 or 8 years old, fought in Soviet Army during WWII.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He enlisted when he was 19, and served in artillery unit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When he was 21, he was badly by shrapnel from an ordinance, which went under the shield of his canon and stuck him in the shin, shattering it, and lodging pieced of metal deep within the bone itself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While awaiting his cue for evaluation in the field hospital just behind front lines, he was told by a young medic to stop moaning from pain, because if he was deemed to be in really bad pain they would have just cut his leg off, while those not in agonizing pain were transported via train to hospitals deep in Russia’s interior, where better care was possible and the leg would have a better chance to be saved.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While en route east, that train, filled with wounded soldiers, happened to make a late-night layover stop at one of the railroad depots in Moscow for just a couple of hours.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With him, my grandpa carried a leather document satchel filled with cash he received as soldier’s pay from the military. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon hearing that he was briefly stopped in his home city, my grandpa handed all he earned to a nurse, in return for her making one phone call to his parents, who upon hearing the news did all they could and got him off that train, so he could be attended to closer to home and in a much better hospital than those deep within interior of USSR.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now I know a bit better the story behind that scar on his left shin, which itched and bothered him for the rest of his life, because a few of the smaller shrapnel pieces were still there, as they were too deep in the bone to be extracted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How lucky he was to have the leg saved and not be a complete shut-in, which is what most disabled people were forced to become in a society not at all set up with their needs in mind. After the war he went to film school, and worked as a camera operator at one of the Moscow studios, sometimes filling in other creative roles on smaller projects.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At home, he had an enlarger he bought shortly after graduating, and my intrigue for this process grew every time I saw him shoot a roll or two at a picnic during the day, then spending an hour or so in the one tiny bathroom of our apartment, and coming out with a wet contact sheet in a tray.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After my mom and grandma selected which frames were to be printed, he dove right back in there, and in a short time there were prints strewn about bedroom floors, drying on newspaper. It was that 1950s Soviet enlarger that I learned to print on when I was 12, a few years after his passing, and I’ll never forget working with it set up along with four trays on an ironing board balanced on a stool over the bathtub.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One had to be rather careful for the whole thing not to tumble over, but it was all worth it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Being as obsessed with making images as I have been all my life, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity this trip was affording me to make daguerreotypes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With main focus of this two-day trip being grandma’s comfort and entertainment, there wasn’t a ton of time left for making images, and so I only brought with me 10 plates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was a real treat to be showing my grandmother the whole process from start to finish, and she wouldn’t stop saying how she never thought it was so involved and labor-intensive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A prospect of a good plate never did fail to make me enjoy every step in its preparation, and this time I was determined to make a daguerreotype of her, so I worked more diligently than ever.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First day, before heading out of the hotel, I fumed 4 of the 10 plates I had with me. After driving around the valley for most of the day, I developed the plates right before sunset, and was heartbroken to see that all of them were severely affected by the heat of Death Valley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After all, it was about 36°C (98°F), and so even brief pauses in our mostly air-conditioned drive, allowed my plated to warm up much too much, thus all images were badly fogged.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Next day the game plan was adjusted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First off, to keep plates cool, I decided to employ an insulated bag with a couple of frozen dry-packs, plus some towels to soak up any moisture from condensation. I would fume 3 of the remaining 6 plates, shoot them in the morning, and then we would spend the hottest part of the day back in the room, where I could develop those 3 to see if things are going better.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That evening I planned on going up to Charcoal Kilns site, which I am very grateful my girlfriend showed me on our journey there a few months ago, and it was there that I wanted to make a portrait of grandma because of their historic significance. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was elated to see that the first three images, one taken along Twenty Mule Team Road, and two on the way to there, all turned out to my full satisfaction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The cooler bag worked wonders, and contrast was back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I fumed the remaining three plates, and we headed up to Charcoal Kilns. There, I briefly worried my grandma by climbing onto the roof of our rental car in order to get a better perspective for the plate of kilns by themselves. The light is difficult to judge at high elevation right during sunset, and so wanting to not miss my chance, I did two similar takes of grandma’s portrait.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon coming back to the hotel, I was once again over the moon to see that all three plates were as good as I could have hoped for them to be. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Presented below are all 6 images from that memorable day; starting with both plates of grandma, which were actually exposed last.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I must note here that the temptation to see the images completely finished had once again been too strong for me, and, ignoring the voice of my better judgment, I fixed and gilded all the plates right in the hotel, instead of waiting to get home to perform that wet part of the process in safety of known environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gilding on location is never too wise of a step, and should be circumvented whenever possible, as contamination of any unfamiliar kind can spell disaster for the image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time I got fairly lucky, with only mild staining showing up in sky areas on some plates, but in the future I will do my very best to resist the gilding urge; there’s no harm in leaving developed daguerreotypes in a dark box for a day or few, and then finishing the process back home, in the confines of a familiar darkroom.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Still though, what a great little trip it was.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmCTs-OrgNWE6OcnLBCnrZS3TBSK0JmkQWZFm0mwaX9KdCnXzGf7WW6vmax2wHVDjg5zvht2DYag4gYbwM2IH_BfpXS3pwmE6E6CljUPbhziABLXi26qBH6BnhnLgTbamiy-4dLlcxGa_/s2048/Grandma_1_Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmCTs-OrgNWE6OcnLBCnrZS3TBSK0JmkQWZFm0mwaX9KdCnXzGf7WW6vmax2wHVDjg5zvht2DYag4gYbwM2IH_BfpXS3pwmE6E6CljUPbhziABLXi26qBH6BnhnLgTbamiy-4dLlcxGa_/w315-h400/Grandma_1_Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Grandma at Charcoal Kilns 1, 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHisox_kl5NtvWDSbVfxhWrKhWQ_Pyj-HMw7e_7Ic0_ZLZNoOnGPGj_4slQ8HdbwSe6nu9nXn-DCVDUwmjttLS4OfQwJpRvZk3utDutU05ROKQJz71Gprh4oWozcxk0JppUkQu2Qa0uN0O/s2048/Grandma_2_Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1614" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHisox_kl5NtvWDSbVfxhWrKhWQ_Pyj-HMw7e_7Ic0_ZLZNoOnGPGj_4slQ8HdbwSe6nu9nXn-DCVDUwmjttLS4OfQwJpRvZk3utDutU05ROKQJz71Gprh4oWozcxk0JppUkQu2Qa0uN0O/w315-h400/Grandma_2_Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Grandma at Charcoal Kilns 2, 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrFrdDGTEtW1aMHa8VQa2MQi9VMb8uqpktkQuj-zfC9ilQET9RZQSCHR4A_zJCyTe6DNfdKVjMwO9g31jTTSCPeT7ojQyNSuYMbwQZs1mqbyqzJs0wOcNo8P8kS5BJyjn3jxkJuFrPLq_/s2048/Landscape_1_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="2048" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrFrdDGTEtW1aMHa8VQa2MQi9VMb8uqpktkQuj-zfC9ilQET9RZQSCHR4A_zJCyTe6DNfdKVjMwO9g31jTTSCPeT7ojQyNSuYMbwQZs1mqbyqzJs0wOcNo8P8kS5BJyjn3jxkJuFrPLq_/w400-h315/Landscape_1_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Death Valley Landscape 1, 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_mCD7i5CKuoBdLg06_yi4A9BXn3_qI0_yPaRgb7hev1zEQFJLoZXg_OTA6TsE312cIEJQ-cPlMv4OXnJYbNOkES6Cmka5-mr2_nGHgXk_fGncDvGgYNx4pK6D8okjC87ES2mSEz1uTZW/s2048/Landscape_2_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1619" data-original-width="2048" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_mCD7i5CKuoBdLg06_yi4A9BXn3_qI0_yPaRgb7hev1zEQFJLoZXg_OTA6TsE312cIEJQ-cPlMv4OXnJYbNOkES6Cmka5-mr2_nGHgXk_fGncDvGgYNx4pK6D8okjC87ES2mSEz1uTZW/w400-h316/Landscape_2_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Along Twenty Mule Team Road, 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAceBRKEihUGo08irkiBKotRJtXD3nsbpR5X59LV1XfzHx37nw9AVTNPiqz_rX0T8eQzvNhy3Jo2a_ApY8I_g9xyPjusx262xmNhwf4_okzYdnpNBNjrGzbef5VAWX-sFEJ_lL-vl22rCt/s2048/Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1616" data-original-width="2048" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAceBRKEihUGo08irkiBKotRJtXD3nsbpR5X59LV1XfzHx37nw9AVTNPiqz_rX0T8eQzvNhy3Jo2a_ApY8I_g9xyPjusx262xmNhwf4_okzYdnpNBNjrGzbef5VAWX-sFEJ_lL-vl22rCt/w400-h315/Charcoal_Kilns_Death_Valley_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Orlov_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Charcoal Kilns of Death Valley, 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><br /><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Anton</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-44625125738283101072021-03-07T00:30:00.004-08:002021-03-09T10:25:07.091-08:00Morsiple Messages – New Multiple Exposure Method<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">History</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In early spring 1839, Paris was abuzz with excitement in connection with a recently published letter, in which the invention of photography was confirmed by reliable sources.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The world was now waiting for French government to work out a deal with its inventor Louis J.M. Daguerre for details of the daguerreotype process to become public.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the same time, another newly invented mode of communication was making its first appearance on the scene; Samuel B. Morse arrived in Paris with his telegraph and code that went along with it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon realizing how thrilled everyone was at the prospect of photography, Morse was at first apprehensive, and thought that his own invention would not receive attention it was due.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nonetheless, he had to see things for himself, and wrote a letter to Daguerre, requesting a meeting, and promising to show his apparatus in exchange for a glimpse at some images made via chemical means by the aid of camera obcura.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This momentous meeting took place on March 7<sup>th</sup>, a full five months prior to the world learning how daguerreotypes were actually made.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Needless to say, Morse was impressed to the fullest extent possible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well-made daguerreotype plates are magnificent, and have an irresistible presence when one holds them in hand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As it happens, that was the first confirmed instance of any American actually seeing a photographic image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Moreover, two days later Morse wrote a letter back home containing high praise for what he saw, and this first-hand account was the first time Americans had a real confirmation of what was looming upon the horizon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9RHGfYdaUiw4CDs8pMIJt_IhdhiZqka2n13q9wXhGqcxy3GmbTFbbnNzfva7n5qVu297LDpxtIqjQfynZTc7hTaovDvgACKV-aPUNZxNdXU8JiPcM4RXHmFqqb7UFmZTl7rTAI7Ik6rL/s1455/Daguerreotype_Morsiple_Message_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1455" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9RHGfYdaUiw4CDs8pMIJt_IhdhiZqka2n13q9wXhGqcxy3GmbTFbbnNzfva7n5qVu297LDpxtIqjQfynZTc7hTaovDvgACKV-aPUNZxNdXU8JiPcM4RXHmFqqb7UFmZTl7rTAI7Ik6rL/w400-h320/Daguerreotype_Morsiple_Message_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">"Daguerreotype" - Morsiple Exposure 4x5in Daguerreotype </span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Project</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Connection to Nature holds a seminal role in my thinking, and never seizes to bring forth inspiration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time I wanted to turn my attention to the relationship between the Sun and Trees; those beautiful green giants that are so often overlooked, taken for granted, or treated as a simple commodity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each day the sun passes over billions of trees all around the globe, radiating life-giving energy their way, and giving them strength to produce the oxygen we survive upon. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I set out to capture brief glimpses of that interaction through long exposures. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having never seen examples of this having been done, I didn’t have much as far as expectations of final image appearance.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My favorite daguerreotype medium though, with its average ISO of 0.1, seemed like a natural choice for trying this out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Furthermore, in the 6 years of working with daguerreotypes I never yet tried to use Daguerre’s original method of only fuming the plate with iodine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Addition of bromine as sensitizer came later, and added a lot more light sensitivity, but for this project the slower single-fumed plates seemed like the way to go.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a few initial tests on less challenging subjects than our closest star, I started setting my camera behind trees, opening the shutter, and the sun made its way into my camera interrupted only by organic branch shapes. Results outpaced my expectations, and I felt free to experiment with a wide range of appearance that daguerreotype medium is capable of.</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhDqFaNv6aulJy1TbbMr-E-0YWuxpAQIJBzKSwuJslCeQMxs0kF-S7sZDZLEdPRz7KibE9h5ouogPGv4mwj8EmDT6iz_SO7jezwX6NVUU9Zn0_ocIALX81c9IL_e67jCiYmC4nZkbe6NV/s1443/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1443" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhDqFaNv6aulJy1TbbMr-E-0YWuxpAQIJBzKSwuJslCeQMxs0kF-S7sZDZLEdPRz7KibE9h5ouogPGv4mwj8EmDT6iz_SO7jezwX6NVUU9Zn0_ocIALX81c9IL_e67jCiYmC4nZkbe6NV/w400-h318/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Sun to Tree #1 - 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGesB8tlQLE2QQSVTMuiigU_fEE3kgquObI4VjCdUqWTaA-aYjOslXRdWxeplaZrpWlDX2Ft4GwRKWkD4bJA7JUYLtd786Hdvvs7qriU-NFZVg0VoMnjMyD_tASosqE3KL-LBPItrh_RKX/s1280/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1013" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGesB8tlQLE2QQSVTMuiigU_fEE3kgquObI4VjCdUqWTaA-aYjOslXRdWxeplaZrpWlDX2Ft4GwRKWkD4bJA7JUYLtd786Hdvvs7qriU-NFZVg0VoMnjMyD_tASosqE3KL-LBPItrh_RKX/w316-h400/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.jpg" width="316" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Sun to Tree #2 - 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLvghv0dbg_BHGEDdRP-mDVHspgGpgWqC6qHWn_u4GhoB90vt73oFU3Jb_zqFd7nl3mANzJikP2YHFXaeSOewbY3YLi74fwrZ9jPRfN6za45tzxXyQHVbeIysbHVGwbjnBY_TcavdlllE/s1351/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1351" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLvghv0dbg_BHGEDdRP-mDVHspgGpgWqC6qHWn_u4GhoB90vt73oFU3Jb_zqFd7nl3mANzJikP2YHFXaeSOewbY3YLi74fwrZ9jPRfN6za45tzxXyQHVbeIysbHVGwbjnBY_TcavdlllE/w400-h321/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Sun to Tree #3 - 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFZgx-iHcKjTWcbtk-OCpuDS-8NcG4jHf7IVT9mgvsfNytwN01zgPvKC5dzlZkuYMMFFg2yaSey63d3oiBs8hq3_aLuH5ZQtlMEMVNF4LHuGu7rUWSlWHU4ta-ig3WyuK-N0xmQrYD9Uc/s1371/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="1371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFZgx-iHcKjTWcbtk-OCpuDS-8NcG4jHf7IVT9mgvsfNytwN01zgPvKC5dzlZkuYMMFFg2yaSey63d3oiBs8hq3_aLuH5ZQtlMEMVNF4LHuGu7rUWSlWHU4ta-ig3WyuK-N0xmQrYD9Uc/w400-h320/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Sun to Tree #4 - 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OYQWGFIURc4u-iOXfYE2zwmKJCp69l-Yb1kqV7zAYz3EU4cEobNPlChmRLjoNBccoZTGLZVriEKtnUAtww9Jk5m9SA9pD9q75icCHIzYyxlI3hDEPDm2zl0N-x3NFOmrwMcdQofDgaHN/s1480/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1480" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OYQWGFIURc4u-iOXfYE2zwmKJCp69l-Yb1kqV7zAYz3EU4cEobNPlChmRLjoNBccoZTGLZVriEKtnUAtww9Jk5m9SA9pD9q75icCHIzYyxlI3hDEPDm2zl0N-x3NFOmrwMcdQofDgaHN/w400-h313/Sun_To_Tree_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Sun to Tree #5 - 4x5 Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Late one night, while examining the above images, I paid more attention to the breaks in suns path, and the balance of those breaks against the brightness of areas where the sun was visible. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was at that moment that by free association I likened them to Morse code, as if hidden messages were being passed between my subjects.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In what seemed like a natural next step, I connected my quest to that famous historic meeting described above, and was strongly compelled to dedicate the next month to working on images in which Morse code, daguerreotype, sun, and trees were employed to make visual statements. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My first step was to look up the rules and alphabet of Morse code, which are posted below for those inquisitive enough to translate suns messages for themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Exposure times and intervals were next to figure out, and that required nothing else but basic algebra involving suns visible diameter and speed of travel.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Essentially the images below are multiple exposures timed in accordance to Morse code, and so, to honor the man who brought us first possibility of instant cross-oceanic communication, I believe ‘Morsiple Exposure’ is a good name for such a technique, and one that is fun to pronounce.<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pointing a camera directly at the sun for 3-5 hours is bound to present a few difficulties, and so my project involved a number of reshoots.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seeing how realistically only one word can be worked on per day, I decided to hedge my bets and worked on the same word with 2-3 4x5 cameras at a time, taking off and replacing lens caps on them in succession and in accordance to timer. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The first plate posted in this blog spells out the word daguerreotype.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That was the longest and hardest exposure, which tool me 4 days to really get to where I like it, and each day 3 cameras were used.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In Morse code, the word daguerreotype consists of 32 characters, and this means that altogether lens cap operation was performed a total of 768 times while only working on this one word.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Should you ever try this, I highly recommend having a chair not far from your tripods.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Morsiple Exposure #1 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHE0qurVgPyjZSNtElYSyrBiGfqStAvp9M546c3yx4l7OyGUdyxbRm7LcMs89i5NgidJ_3-oQ0kSECl9iBNrtAZ-luQqtM9hn2afUMDD57TyGrNVhHY7CqDuEULHwE0RbnFlCJWU4AUoaV/s1417/Morsiple_Message_2_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="1417" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHE0qurVgPyjZSNtElYSyrBiGfqStAvp9M546c3yx4l7OyGUdyxbRm7LcMs89i5NgidJ_3-oQ0kSECl9iBNrtAZ-luQqtM9hn2afUMDD57TyGrNVhHY7CqDuEULHwE0RbnFlCJWU4AUoaV/w400-h319/Morsiple_Message_2_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #3 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj523xQ751kEpnCoq1ABhT3moAybzMdUE0Qas2RjE9hBmX3m4jK-xLIhFOuZEi1-pid6hh4tdFTu7pm9KcovNnsSFLRmU6xdZPpugJKKwKGF3W_zWKWW3UAhz26Y8dXUnIeadxoVvW0pjfG/s1491/Morsiple_Message_4_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1491" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj523xQ751kEpnCoq1ABhT3moAybzMdUE0Qas2RjE9hBmX3m4jK-xLIhFOuZEi1-pid6hh4tdFTu7pm9KcovNnsSFLRmU6xdZPpugJKKwKGF3W_zWKWW3UAhz26Y8dXUnIeadxoVvW0pjfG/w400-h314/Morsiple_Message_4_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #4 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGWu8Bro60qn4ziwpqVAHwrPViiERVuv4inCniONNQ75wKTXqVgOI9zajG5NP7P5jsIPHyr7W1hyphenhyphen01AJ9LLo2yABiUb0Qdwj41mRuj_n6zqROO_JP5i9XZJ_IYDWoB5x-U-Py8BVUq4ss/s1451/Morsiple_Message_5_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1451" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGWu8Bro60qn4ziwpqVAHwrPViiERVuv4inCniONNQ75wKTXqVgOI9zajG5NP7P5jsIPHyr7W1hyphenhyphen01AJ9LLo2yABiUb0Qdwj41mRuj_n6zqROO_JP5i9XZJ_IYDWoB5x-U-Py8BVUq4ss/w400-h316/Morsiple_Message_5_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #5 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3U646ebNdoq0AMUXUYXA4z-VQME0fdzYLXSxnaUazSRPUoBNYXmN4gCPj_qaZ_5ogiS09VCE_2V-vjSceVrPxqj9KW2bQ8GJ2TIrfPZm5O85Kz1huDPOn_BEg6zhBZb3W17sfX3R57lU/s1462/Morsiple_Message_6_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="1462" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3U646ebNdoq0AMUXUYXA4z-VQME0fdzYLXSxnaUazSRPUoBNYXmN4gCPj_qaZ_5ogiS09VCE_2V-vjSceVrPxqj9KW2bQ8GJ2TIrfPZm5O85Kz1huDPOn_BEg6zhBZb3W17sfX3R57lU/w400-h311/Morsiple_Message_6_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #6 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YPIRs4VDDPBcwdVwkJtKEto-5PAgmeyL8zybx8FZLkrfCyI00lJNihWnZ33Yw0KZmsvTiASrlqetLWjzAxP-Nsdo4VcY4GV6AIvhVDWgy4U5iW-D3g2fUfeR8dnZHv_KI7HXDijhtEqT/s1456/Morsiple_Message_7_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1456" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YPIRs4VDDPBcwdVwkJtKEto-5PAgmeyL8zybx8FZLkrfCyI00lJNihWnZ33Yw0KZmsvTiASrlqetLWjzAxP-Nsdo4VcY4GV6AIvhVDWgy4U5iW-D3g2fUfeR8dnZHv_KI7HXDijhtEqT/w400-h324/Morsiple_Message_7_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #7 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzB097O_CUlNhQl7JXi-oNzWDJRChLeFzeCE9FsATXdxvwpwXDUlaVmrO129LGjmQg04yTpTMo-64dkaTXpeWmjq6_tNvQhlq1LKlIvXaSW-O8ZXu6mWHlGgWQ7FJ1-jNgeikCmV5amEL/s1376/Morsiple_Message_8_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1376" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzB097O_CUlNhQl7JXi-oNzWDJRChLeFzeCE9FsATXdxvwpwXDUlaVmrO129LGjmQg04yTpTMo-64dkaTXpeWmjq6_tNvQhlq1LKlIvXaSW-O8ZXu6mWHlGgWQ7FJ1-jNgeikCmV5amEL/w400-h316/Morsiple_Message_8_4x5_Daguereotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Morsiple Exposure #8 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0Sg70jjf_yDH9aRpp4EJmGGl66JuXEyxt_fDIdqkaYS0tv1JkZPPxyiTjXmy_fmPIpywTHblxCZkyqzsLRgoFvCtArcEesCuXhkMo9bKJ1IyYcx-5Vf7HYOYvDC6JsI6ELq8WcjE4T-U/s2016/4x5_Cameras_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0Sg70jjf_yDH9aRpp4EJmGGl66JuXEyxt_fDIdqkaYS0tv1JkZPPxyiTjXmy_fmPIpywTHblxCZkyqzsLRgoFvCtArcEesCuXhkMo9bKJ1IyYcx-5Vf7HYOYvDC6JsI6ELq8WcjE4T-U/w400-h300/4x5_Cameras_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">4x5in Cameras making Morsiple Exposure Daguerreotypes</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Coincidences</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>History and energy are interesting things.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As some readers may be aware, while Niepce and Daguerre were working out their method of capturing the image inside camera obscura via chemical means, a number of other people around the world were also either just thinking about it, or actively working on their own processes of doing so.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Light sensitivity of silver salts was widely known, and in fact Morse himself had experimented with this phenomenon some years prior to 1839.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He actually succeeded in getting a negative image, but gave up before it occurred to him to simply reverse it one more time into a positive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of course after seeing daguerreotypes and returning to the US, Morse waited for release of the process, learned it, and for a brief time opened a daguerreotype studio.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While working on a this project, I was fairly sure I was the first to not only try sun trails via daguerreotype method, but also to employ Morse code.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just two days ago, I posted one straight sun trail image in a social media group dedicated to modern practice of daguerreotype.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Imagine my surprise when I soon saw a comment by Mate Bakody, a practitioner from Hungary, saying that not only did he try sun trails before, but also, even without knowing that I already had those Morse code plate, saying he has tried to do the same just last year!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Amazing, after 182 years, we both tried it at almost same time, though his approach to calculating the code yielded rather different results.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His work though is very diverse and inspiring, and he has explored Morse code in wonderful ways I would have never thought of.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Your Plate</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Would you like to have a unique daguerreotype plate with a custom Morsiple exposure?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Such a plate, with a name of a loved one or a positive affirmation, is surely one of the most unique objects one can possess.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If this thought intrigues you, do feel free to drop a message to thephotopalace@gmail.com and I’ll be glad to work out the details.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because I used multiple cameras and sometimes more than one plate worked out to my liking, I also have available a few excellent versions plates not seen here, but which have same messages as posted above.<br /><br />Thank You</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-36345911000435320612021-01-31T13:16:00.005-08:002021-02-02T09:46:10.454-08:00 Daguerrean Dream – Visual Symphony in 43 Daguerreotype Plates<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having now finalized work on this series, I will attempt to put into words its impetus, as well as how it came to fruition.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This will be a lengthy entry, proportional in size to the monumentally significant nature of this work for me, and therefore I shall start from the beginning, as all things have their origins. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In mid October 2018, a somewhat local man, known to himself and some others as a photographic artist, stopped by my studio.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was seeking a daguerreotype of his own likeness to be made by me; this was something he has been after for quite a while at that point.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I should note that the very notions of artistic craft and photographic knowledge are deeply personal to me; it is something I revered all my life and was taught to respect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This meeting proved to be most disturbing though. It was one that brought me face to face with a professional socialite and opportunistic dilettante of archetypal proportions, who exuded brazenly self-satisfied disregard for even the very basic principles of photography.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After failing to deliver anything of value in terms agreed upon, and before mailing back his portrait, the other party went to considerable lengths to physically destroy the image, destroying with it my silver plate, upon which multiple impressions could have otherwise still been secured. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seeing that precious metal surface obliterated by such deeply talentless hands, hands controlled by such an unimaginatively simple mind really stung, and I did succumb to a mild depressive episode for the next few weeks. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In a way, depression is part of fantasy world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To oversimplify a bit, it is that time when the mind gets lost in so many layers of hopelessness, that it gets confused, zeroes in on gloom, and seizes to see hope and brighter side of life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A depressed mind can often fantasize in ways that normally it would not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A lot of those fantasies of course lean toward negative thinking, but not all of them, and those are the ones I tried my best to pay attention to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Best way I’ve found to climb out of the vicious self-deprecating spiral is to pick the less tormented moments, and tune to that sometimes quietest of all voices, a voice of hope and inspiration, and then try to amplify it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Listened to carefully and long enough, some delightful bits of vibration can be decoded, a message that always pushed me to try and interpret it through tones and shapes in my images.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time around, the message I decoded was vague, but much more powerful than ever.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A new certainty emerged that reinvention of my vision, of my work, and of daguerreotype process as known thus far were calling me from around a distant corner, and that this corner demanded to be rounded gently and methodically.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In mid November, I felt the overwhelming urge to pick up my buffing tools, and let the journey begin.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With the subject of my first few plates I needed to say goodbye to those vacuous characters who pillage and pilfer artistic minds with their mindless dribble, undermining faith in larger purpose of Art.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I say no, true art exists well outside the circles in which those characters rotate comfortably, lulled with cheese and wine, where sober scrutiny of quality and merit are shunned in favor of networking opportunities in search of larger and larger walls to cover.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPEjWli_xSvlYfMGtudiZeNNdWHvi57LPBApwELzS7WNRvG9XMeCKKtZo9q4Pwit0kW-AeALe8IoxQpMcmEEf3yv6Cmts2FS429FH-LhqXYUiiKHlSAb0WOaamYZmkCPrZi5KNKPaGyav/s1200/1_First3_copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="1200" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPEjWli_xSvlYfMGtudiZeNNdWHvi57LPBApwELzS7WNRvG9XMeCKKtZo9q4Pwit0kW-AeALe8IoxQpMcmEEf3yv6Cmts2FS429FH-LhqXYUiiKHlSAb0WOaamYZmkCPrZi5KNKPaGyav/w400-h154/1_First3_copy.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">First three 1/6th plate studies</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Working obsessively and intuitively, I knew I was seeing but steppingstones of a new learning curve.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There was something strong yet ephemeral though, a lingering mirage on the horizon of all my previous knowledge, and it was tugging and luring me forward. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Was it something I read, some mistake I once made that maybe wasn’t a clue, something I heard someone say a long time ago, or was it the space left when they said nothing?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This palpable tension of yet unrealized potential pushed me fume plates daily for close to two months.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I took all the bits and pieces of my knowledge and mixed them up, shook vigorously, tossed it all up and watched where the pieces landed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As is in life, each piece affected those around it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wandered along the generally linear processions of image conception and subsequent creation. Again and again, I tied those lines into knots, shredded them, and observed where pieces fell.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Repeating similar steps over and over, getting spectacularly different results every time, just like a madman would rightly expect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After making and erasing 120 or so 1/6<sup>th</sup> plate images, upon emergence of the final three skull plates below, as suddenly as the push for work came over previously, me a new feeling set in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As if through a cracked door, I now saw a way toward new potentials within syntaxes of my own image making, and that of the very daguerreotype process itself, and knew that I needed to step back and regroup.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Leaving all those experiments unpublished, I felt the need for collected reflection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before moving on, further input of happenstance impetus was needed to strengthen my arsenal, and this ingredient of creativity mustn’t be rushed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbi6IScGxjZ7hizdrhFTdA9-w-Cmv3LyQ9H_7iVlVYGyg1gqIjMqyDT-KPewIPKJg_msv8Zk3xRYJfdGpRmlCZRvqDPaM90MM4oQlS_CCUfQ6wf59Ly1JknXHEt2NJ3c7YOUo9U5TtZ6s/s1388/2_Three_Skulls_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="1388" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbi6IScGxjZ7hizdrhFTdA9-w-Cmv3LyQ9H_7iVlVYGyg1gqIjMqyDT-KPewIPKJg_msv8Zk3xRYJfdGpRmlCZRvqDPaM90MM4oQlS_CCUfQ6wf59Ly1JknXHEt2NJ3c7YOUo9U5TtZ6s/w400-h120/2_Three_Skulls_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Last three 1/6th plate studies</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To take a pause, I decided to go make daguerreotypes of the Grand Canyon, as the abundance of nature has never failed to awe me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In preparation for that trip, I purchased a newly invented piece of daguerreotype equipment, a mercury developing apparatus, which promised to make location part of this endeavor safer and easier.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In a rush to experience the splendor of Grand Canyon muffled by snow, I didn’t test my new acquisition prior to heading out, and so things didn’t work out quite as well as I had hoped for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon return, and with guidance from the inventor, I set out to do another series of tests, this time to see what it is that may be impeding good results while using this new gadget.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I again found myself making at least two plates daily for the next few weeks. A series of fuming tests was proposed, and I faithfully executed them day in and day out, but to no avail.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This repetitive fuming did something very positive though.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m sure this has happened to others; we work so hard on something that it consumes all our daily thinking.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Those projects tend to seep into dreams and reflect themselves in waking moments when, for just a split second, we let our minds interpret reality by free association.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And so I saw clouds of fumes in my dreams and out of my peripheral vision while awake.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I dreamed that photography floats amid clouds, and I’m chasing it, and I’m not sure which way is up or even what planet I’m on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was at that time that a certain image came into existence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the first of what would become Part II of Daguerrean Dream series.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One day by chance, I glanced at a broken shutter lying upon a white sheet on my desk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For that split second saw in it a piece of myself; a refugee of a world past, exploring unknown foggy atmosphere in search of safe respite.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought about old tools, which were so useful and beloved, and how many of them are now lost, defunct, or out of style.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought about what it meant for technology to perpetually move on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Does this perpetual motion ensure actual net positive gain, or does it doom simple yet perfect methods to being overcome by new and novel, but not necessarily better ways? Daguerreotype method has been with us for 180 years, and at this point it is a novelty process practiced in any meaningful way by less than a few dozen people on Earth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yet I have never seen a finer singular object-image in front of me, and I’ve looked far and wide.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When, after 25 years of expressing myself via photography, I discovered daguerreotypes for myself, it was a life changing experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was as if a strange and beautiful alien ship landed inside my brain, bringing with it an unheard language, which sounds instantly made sense.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This lonely shutter on a white surface now seemed like a starship, searching for unique appreciation, or perhaps to shuttle me to a more honest place. I envisioned other antiquated pieces of past technologies that were doing the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I set out to find those pieces, and to create inviting worlds for them to approach and explore, and perhaps to call home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EwMvIItDYyj84Y1xpBKEwLj2iW_YtGy5cGpu-VBsmF0h0BP60VfwCkKcqjg7JabGGF1Sn_-eLPsJmuzVxnImqxDJC-jCY1_XOkNkMGIg6SKX0cteIVhXnIRcdSnakFl9w30XpJm7X9i6/s776/3_Space_Explorer_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="776" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EwMvIItDYyj84Y1xpBKEwLj2iW_YtGy5cGpu-VBsmF0h0BP60VfwCkKcqjg7JabGGF1Sn_-eLPsJmuzVxnImqxDJC-jCY1_XOkNkMGIg6SKX0cteIVhXnIRcdSnakFl9w30XpJm7X9i6/w400-h296/3_Space_Explorer_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Shutter Shuttle </div></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Searching for imaginary space ships among the post-industrial rubble is not an easy task, involving a mix of patience, intuition, and a good dose of luck, so this was to be a protracted affair.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the meantime, by midsummer 2019, I felt it was time to start revisiting ideas conceived during previous year’s experiments.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The skull, having been the subject for my last plates at that time, was now to be the starting point.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The dance of Shiva, with its constant cycle of death and rebirth, gave me a vision of this lifeless skull flanked by caviar-like glowing seeds, with geometric shapes searching for order where there may not be any, the Great Void constantly closing in. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU2YwGAjeSN9Rg2yHZl2bMXx4T64x894STQ0YUCK0yZbeALEKwPdHWUgs6yi8nODcNVKPSpsKLCVyqu192ugxfl2dxqqdKtR9ZfIj5mB5-U_8lTbs2DI811aOhPt7XEfhtpVjLQ-Y6Olv/s1200/17_Skull_Space_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1200" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU2YwGAjeSN9Rg2yHZl2bMXx4T64x894STQ0YUCK0yZbeALEKwPdHWUgs6yi8nODcNVKPSpsKLCVyqu192ugxfl2dxqqdKtR9ZfIj5mB5-U_8lTbs2DI811aOhPt7XEfhtpVjLQ-Y6Olv/w400-h295/17_Skull_Space_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Skull and Caviar</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> This skull</span> image didn’t make it into the final cut for Daguerran Dream series, but it’s one of the more important plates connected to creation of this series.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Working on it for well over a week in order to get it just right, gave a chance for a lot of previous ideas to come together in ways I hadn’t expected. I then found myself in the darkroom nearly daily for a couple of months, feverishly working on one plate after the next, and once in a while still taking time to track down my imaginary space ships one by one. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I continued to keep my work unpublished, waiting to see where it was taking me.</span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Clearing all preconceptions of what may appear on my next plate, I worked into November, a year after the journey began.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Good images started to add up. Each plate was like a miniature dream; conceived deep within subliminal spaces of my mind, and materialized as if from nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These dreams now looked up at me with their own undeniably tangible nature.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All the repetitive buffing and fuming started to again dominate my experience of reality and dreams, providing a wonderfully cohesive texture that tied the two together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is at this point that formulation of this series in its entirety finally coalesced.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After some soul searching and reviewing both work already completed and inspiration present at the time, I decided upon the following format. Daguerrean Dream was to be the name for this body of work, and, it was to consist of several distinct parts, in order to better guide the viewer on the path of discovery.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having 4 parts would follow a classic symphonic format, for I saw this work as an ode to my love of self-expression through Photographic Art, and a hymn to contain those limitlessly beautiful potentials of Daguerreotype method that until now remained mainly dormant. Along with delving into their own distinct uncharted territories, each of those parts was also to be reflective of a particular stage of my life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Experiments that led up to this work started when I was 42, and I knew I would be 43 by the time it was done, so there were to be 42 main body plates, plus one cover image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What was to become the cover image actually has already come into existence about three months earlier, on August 11th, 2019.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That day I found my muse within the brilliant, radiant sun, while soaking up its glory on the roof behind my darkroom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I saw myself holding the Sun in my hand, and its powerful rays were shining simultaneously on all places and peoples. Layers of make-believe lens flare orbs float and shimmer, while my head is thoroughly lodged in stylized clouds, in which I found myself daydreaming ever since I can recall.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBkhL-8biZ-MRdwsOo8mxtpNVW3y2imV3xDtqq-tvhrIY4puIb_-6jhao4cFsiXosm2dJI7J_XIo1XMSOaT2MiuQJnoioP_xUeCuG5nPP3YOzU1uO5VjKZP56EbEZvEa4aFNIhWtbuN_F/s1200/4_Daguerrean_Dream_Series_Cover_Head_In_The_Clouds_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1200" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBkhL-8biZ-MRdwsOo8mxtpNVW3y2imV3xDtqq-tvhrIY4puIb_-6jhao4cFsiXosm2dJI7J_XIo1XMSOaT2MiuQJnoioP_xUeCuG5nPP3YOzU1uO5VjKZP56EbEZvEa4aFNIhWtbuN_F/w400-h324/4_Daguerrean_Dream_Series_Cover_Head_In_The_Clouds_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Head in the Clouds</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As mentioned, I started my explorations long prior to conceptually solidifying this series in its final state.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I saw it coming to fruition, I knew that in order to make sense of it all I needed to step quite a ways back, to the very baseline potential of syntax in which daguerreotype plates were used to communicate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The break with tradition of both my usual ways of working and previous use of this process was so abrupt and wide, that it needed an introduction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is as if a newly invented instrument is being added into an orchestra, and, as a hello, preforms a quick solo, running through its scales and showing off a few possible choice combinations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The reader is probably familiar with frustration of trying to explain your dreams to someone else.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even if the dream was very vivid and clear, things that happen there will always be infinitely more clear to you than to someone trying to infer them from a mere description of your vision.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This barrier led me to make the first part of this series be as simple as possible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are 9 plates in this first part, and I was just about nine years old when I felt a draw to learn the noble art of photography in order to express my fascination with existence through it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before that age, it was as if prior to hearing the full song, I was picking up and learning it one seemingly unrelated chord at a time, trusting it will all fit somehow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>New ideas presented themselves at that time almost daily, and it was through them that my view of the world was shaped.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simple as some ideas may appear, when coalesced with others in dynamic ways, wonderful interactions often emerge. If we pay attention to them, we gain a better relationship with ourselves, and our surroundings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03PhXJ90hsygw337uOSBaeoZ_zNWIhm8KjGSZYHogbjJilGca-oweO4CIu8cHvHJIWxuMrA0wPldPhid2KWkgSS3LvEmkqbyDporDBE6Dxb4IYpq_C45bSYz6VcEQHJND5hw-fE9PuTm9/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Mind_Works__4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="1200" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03PhXJ90hsygw337uOSBaeoZ_zNWIhm8KjGSZYHogbjJilGca-oweO4CIu8cHvHJIWxuMrA0wPldPhid2KWkgSS3LvEmkqbyDporDBE6Dxb4IYpq_C45bSYz6VcEQHJND5hw-fE9PuTm9/w400-h286/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Mind_Works__4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Mind Works, Part I, Plate 1 of 9</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmpBd6Hva79Lf_rzHd31QLAYHwrX8M2ijWEzpdZCnvP_KSdxdV2m8gNsK3fcRBjSbIah1A4AMKgi5bRsY-hZb-Yz_qxYWeTgGofX2STJhDXMub9-yBzmgzdHy294bxWUo878t_8HeQWOOh/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Spheres_Of_Influence_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1200" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmpBd6Hva79Lf_rzHd31QLAYHwrX8M2ijWEzpdZCnvP_KSdxdV2m8gNsK3fcRBjSbIah1A4AMKgi5bRsY-hZb-Yz_qxYWeTgGofX2STJhDXMub9-yBzmgzdHy294bxWUo878t_8HeQWOOh/w400-h281/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Spheres_Of_Influence_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Spheres of Influence, Part I, Plate 5 of 9</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMQ-FJ4GFj7LjdD_BzXwAsRZB-rzhvm9s2-p2W6PWW0NANr_te6PPAnD5NFW7zu_8CnxkGc4fe4OaJCLx2Mcsx2b5PKJaE4CuDF4ldaywDwlYnwwia4R8MuUK7n4_RXhkVL-98177F-oS/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Sun_Splash__4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1200" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMQ-FJ4GFj7LjdD_BzXwAsRZB-rzhvm9s2-p2W6PWW0NANr_te6PPAnD5NFW7zu_8CnxkGc4fe4OaJCLx2Mcsx2b5PKJaE4CuDF4ldaywDwlYnwwia4R8MuUK7n4_RXhkVL-98177F-oS/w400-h304/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_1_Sun_Splash__4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Sun Splash, Part I, Plate 8 of 9</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Part II was to be devoted to my beloved space ships.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seven of them were now soaring through unreal worlds, free from constraints of gravity, and independent of this fast and furious world where they no longer found themselves needed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh the countless days in school that I spent staring out the window, daydreaming, wishing I could fly. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10-16 was a time of angst and suppressed creativity, so I decided to redeem each of those years with a space ship.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One spaceship is an old radio tube, another is an ink pen nib, a third one emerged from insides of a mechanical pencil sharpener.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All of these things served as ground for mental escape during my childhood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_jVnZyEQly7h_stbmehq0XE7dussAJ56zgOVtNKLgyvqTx8zOyKn9e9_3-RG_TylM5Il1ysRoJSWgnR-I02d-AvAlirSaX4rWsegVnQk5_xjEHKdRRR727uozSO-Neq912qcDbO7Tlot/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_1_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1200" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_jVnZyEQly7h_stbmehq0XE7dussAJ56zgOVtNKLgyvqTx8zOyKn9e9_3-RG_TylM5Il1ysRoJSWgnR-I02d-AvAlirSaX4rWsegVnQk5_xjEHKdRRR727uozSO-Neq912qcDbO7Tlot/w400-h295/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_1_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Space Explorer 1, Part II, Plate 1 of 7</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxnovF6mnDY77BecYm3iMYRGRaKAbxAjRduCxfXwZ1C475sFDPF9Xtzxj2LhJfPg41E0RLcI3oKRmLQnwBrpW5ZRUmNwnSfs6o7d6hCtbGMoGl1cJOUFYOUWjnEU5FjWAHb2ryXuC_Bqa/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_2_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1200" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZxnovF6mnDY77BecYm3iMYRGRaKAbxAjRduCxfXwZ1C475sFDPF9Xtzxj2LhJfPg41E0RLcI3oKRmLQnwBrpW5ZRUmNwnSfs6o7d6hCtbGMoGl1cJOUFYOUWjnEU5FjWAHb2ryXuC_Bqa/w400-h313/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_2_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Space Explorer 2, Part II, Plate 2 of 7</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchsrMGv_mDpKjfNeAtYR5eCklftMLxBGNmCyEWIWHyoEFom4BCdPXqmmVmBMXhIlIA6ZK0dSNXMVkktTozoCgqflotBu08twQHrS_0jIeuLIYRLZCAY9fdiRxcnevb0Z9e7b45kt2HN9d/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_4_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1200" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchsrMGv_mDpKjfNeAtYR5eCklftMLxBGNmCyEWIWHyoEFom4BCdPXqmmVmBMXhIlIA6ZK0dSNXMVkktTozoCgqflotBu08twQHrS_0jIeuLIYRLZCAY9fdiRxcnevb0Z9e7b45kt2HN9d/w400-h303/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_2_Space_Explorer_4_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Space Explorer 4, Part II, Plate 4 of 7</span></span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Part III is largest of the series.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It starts from plate seventeen, since it was a month before turning seventeen that I immigrated to the US from Russia with my family as refugees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A move between such drastically different cultures and at such an impressionable stage of human development is apt to create quite a shock.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At first I could barely tie a sentence together, and was even worse at understanding fluently spoken English.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Every interaction or task presented a mix of challenges and learning opportunities, each being unique and drastically different.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Varied nature of plates in PART III of the series is meant to reflect this life in the New World.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Plates in this part are more independent of each other.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They stand as separate lessons that add up in background of one’s memory.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some deal with the way our world intrigues my eyes daily in new and unexpected ways.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Others address times of pure fantasy, mostly removed from reality, with only a hint of presence of me or of natural world.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHP6sIhspqaBWZdK6KESL4fwrp_N7kovaUM0JmhmA6dHGTeCoAtZ8xFIqnrqK772imwmL58D-2n9yqltpGH64APO2LFr-qmLqkT-pnBz8oxfULY2PeN1o8QcCHVafiLQ4XZ0ZfK0DGOxc/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Gaze_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="959" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHP6sIhspqaBWZdK6KESL4fwrp_N7kovaUM0JmhmA6dHGTeCoAtZ8xFIqnrqK772imwmL58D-2n9yqltpGH64APO2LFr-qmLqkT-pnBz8oxfULY2PeN1o8QcCHVafiLQ4XZ0ZfK0DGOxc/w320-h400/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Gaze_copy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Gaze, Part III, Plate 3 of 16</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOuHCBBVJMkDx4HKRQ5Z7CY-dA57LXsHiYQHPEpD3VOa_CFd0_I3ljMFHhgP0Yxl4KxNLq9KkctLUthdoisL3WYCq5kZPUbbx78FDm9qXg0YvwSaPxdWn-xcMKuYSqGbU0f-t0A4kzNuu9/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Dreamer_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOuHCBBVJMkDx4HKRQ5Z7CY-dA57LXsHiYQHPEpD3VOa_CFd0_I3ljMFHhgP0Yxl4KxNLq9KkctLUthdoisL3WYCq5kZPUbbx78FDm9qXg0YvwSaPxdWn-xcMKuYSqGbU0f-t0A4kzNuu9/w400-h320/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Dreamer_copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Dreamer, Part III, Plate 6 of 16</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuJQtDL1ik6Pubz0_dQ_Rg6C-y13vn8SeuwKMGodrCZHVQgYMai7tyy7U-mtWlkDu-cV6cqiMqDBulGXfCOF9l_M46RMf8tvLCrC6p5Pc-yEzy9LZ45Y23wAZLvaCMYtNvYEmyDHokryy/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Door_copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="964" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQuJQtDL1ik6Pubz0_dQ_Rg6C-y13vn8SeuwKMGodrCZHVQgYMai7tyy7U-mtWlkDu-cV6cqiMqDBulGXfCOF9l_M46RMf8tvLCrC6p5Pc-yEzy9LZ45Y23wAZLvaCMYtNvYEmyDHokryy/w321-h400/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_3_Anton_Photo_Palace_Daguerreotype_4x5_Door_copy.jpg" width="321" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Open Door, Part III, Plate 12 of 16</span></span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Part IV, the last 10 plates of the series, represents the ten years I’ve spent as an independent artist, surviving solely on that work. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was in 2011 that I realized a vision I had since 1997; getting a full size bus and converting it to have a traveling darkroom and presentation area, and so The Photo Palace Bus was born. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The idea for Photo Palace was literally a daydream come true, and it was the strongest such manifestation in my life up to this point, but how did all the other nightly forays into dreamland affect me while I was living and learning the path of life?</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While working with that dream, these last ten years felt most cohesive and focused thus far.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In keeping with this continuum, last ten plates are visually tied together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Day after day we follow along the line of our experience in this physical world, with its myriad distractions of things and our possessions, which seem to give us a sense of continuity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We learn from past experiences, and adapt to new situations, in order to better interpret future events and people we meet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the very base of all those experiences, feelings, memories, and emotions is our wonderfully complex brain.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All that we think and all that we identify ourselves as is stored and mixed within the neural network of our brains. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Electrical impulses interact with chemical compounds to recollect memories of things we own that remind us of stages of our past. This familiar continuum of material things acts to unify our perception of what we call our life path.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, those same neurons and chemicals that act to tell us that we graduated college or had a burger, at times of sleep provide us with sometimes most vivid and marvelous dreams, some of which will feel just as real as that burger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wanted this last part to have all plates be connected by real artifacts from my life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each plate also had to have a crude interpretation of a real-life dream I had at one point or another.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All this imagery had to be interconnected, like reality and dreams comingle within memory clouds of our minds.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Putting all of this down in visual format was not an easy task. After envisioning this idea, and then being stubbornly set on it in the face of all kinds of obstacles, it took me a few months to conceive and develop the necessary technique. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once work began though, it didn’t take more than a month, and by end of July 2020 I had all ten secured.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqwCd1YwvDgcWbj4C0qQbDgeUs7MqYOhEIZT9ZOqFlQzItGCC-EX57n1aFbWsuzY3uRS1TN356FSc2oQWYC5CSBuB20gMLNKOoIsquu2HZOLJq7ui5T4BXntHoWj2YpNGJsVEQ7wVMTWW/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate3_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqwCd1YwvDgcWbj4C0qQbDgeUs7MqYOhEIZT9ZOqFlQzItGCC-EX57n1aFbWsuzY3uRS1TN356FSc2oQWYC5CSBuB20gMLNKOoIsquu2HZOLJq7ui5T4BXntHoWj2YpNGJsVEQ7wVMTWW/w400-h320/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate3_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Dream 3, Part IV, Plate 3 of 10</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtPWTGXFM-r5Dr10oMJpuJbimoxex2ELoi4F5OBSFYQ-JdroXjUqM0rLRSUMIVr8XN6Zm82uGhWS5aEAsrIKh31NNWsaXXRfTaFPi4kUW2Gum0mm0wCd6-rtWIAjbxSpITyWALkpnJeaSq/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate4_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1200" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtPWTGXFM-r5Dr10oMJpuJbimoxex2ELoi4F5OBSFYQ-JdroXjUqM0rLRSUMIVr8XN6Zm82uGhWS5aEAsrIKh31NNWsaXXRfTaFPi4kUW2Gum0mm0wCd6-rtWIAjbxSpITyWALkpnJeaSq/w400-h311/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate4_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Dream 4, Part IV, Plate 4 of 10</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xxZmIbY617pItSL2bh76TFOFAAzBQf4TpfR729zja4d0Rt2yPzQV7hUgpQK35BG7-0FrbWCEhKavl50MRFHSdqVy6HkTDTvYd_kLpC2YakIM7qhvBtUQVB3nOV8WxCNbNMiaK958OoPc/s1200/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate5_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xxZmIbY617pItSL2bh76TFOFAAzBQf4TpfR729zja4d0Rt2yPzQV7hUgpQK35BG7-0FrbWCEhKavl50MRFHSdqVy6HkTDTvYd_kLpC2YakIM7qhvBtUQVB3nOV8WxCNbNMiaK958OoPc/w400-h320/Daguerrean_Dream_Part_4_Plate5_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_copy.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Dream 5, Part IV, Plate 5 of 10</span></span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When the last plate of Part IV was done, and all 43 plates were looking back at me, I realized I needed to give these plates the noble secure storage they deserve, so I contacted a kind and qualified woodworker in Canada.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Under my loose guidance as far as general feel and particular function, he constructed a gorgeous custom hard wood box, with 42 velvet-lined slots, and a place within the lid to separately display cover plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dVUo3bfxM-5eweXNZMM-peRRcsiV_pWmNJqOAs7XbmpC2bEbiMaysP69JM-YNv3Nl76TptlZxiYb0sPLmsrLy78yjNucWRix6D8BLjC15x5_yoFXFzFfR-cL9S1JjbBmp2IXQBSKPB_K/s629/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="629" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dVUo3bfxM-5eweXNZMM-peRRcsiV_pWmNJqOAs7XbmpC2bEbiMaysP69JM-YNv3Nl76TptlZxiYb0sPLmsrLy78yjNucWRix6D8BLjC15x5_yoFXFzFfR-cL9S1JjbBmp2IXQBSKPB_K/w400-h326/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_1.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Daguerrean Dream Series Storage Box</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl4jM8eim2rfMMzicpd0Ah7FZwUlFMJPRH_yiZQR7kVn4CAEm-Gd5AhbvqffslwkF7ui2LMSBqQDBngnZunDOXPwV6Ef_hFJ5wxr1854rxKyo0ZHdmHtd3KZkEnNJPGsNbqJEvyUmI8jI/s1634/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1634" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl4jM8eim2rfMMzicpd0Ah7FZwUlFMJPRH_yiZQR7kVn4CAEm-Gd5AhbvqffslwkF7ui2LMSBqQDBngnZunDOXPwV6Ef_hFJ5wxr1854rxKyo0ZHdmHtd3KZkEnNJPGsNbqJEvyUmI8jI/w400-h280/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Cover Image in Box Lid</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyB3FAQA9-omvmN9tqhb8rPDD1L6aU-zRK9vGD-nRJjlaCPyjKvDP5SQNhnaNXZvBjkhEwicHcqPWVgiLuf6IVjncKo9JJ8MMCJgFtoAp-n1fMsTyMYyymzAs_csaXjtYtiYFEfucncy0K/s1732/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1732" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyB3FAQA9-omvmN9tqhb8rPDD1L6aU-zRK9vGD-nRJjlaCPyjKvDP5SQNhnaNXZvBjkhEwicHcqPWVgiLuf6IVjncKo9JJ8MMCJgFtoAp-n1fMsTyMYyymzAs_csaXjtYtiYFEfucncy0K/w400-h333/Daguerrean_Dream_Anton_Photo_Palace_Box_3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">42 4x5in Daguerreotypes in Box</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As usual, I’ll remind the reader that any effort to view a daguerreotype in a still form and upon a device screen is at best akin to attempting to smell a rose in a gas mask.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These unique objects demand proper lighting, and for absolute truest experience must be held in viewer’s hand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each daguerreotype will have a nearly infinite array of looks, where colors and contrast will shift and play as one changes lighting and viewing angles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Presented here are but snippets of each plate’s actual range; think of it as hearing one note of a melody, though I did try to choose a good note. I am always glad to present an opportunity for willing parties to see these and other works live at my studio while visiting sunny San Diego, and welcome inquiries about possible purchases, commissions, or exhibitions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Thank you,<br />Anton</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-57705160331685238092020-12-24T15:20:00.000-08:002020-12-24T15:20:08.401-08:00California Redwoods Daguerreotype Trip<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> Redwood Daguerreotypes</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This trip has been waiting in the wings ever since I made my first successful daguerreotype in the redwoods two years ago.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I actually planned on going as early as August this year, but one project after another, including the cats, kept getting in the way, and for months I kept pushing it back by a couple weeks. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I got tired of pushing it back, weather moved into the region, bringing with it two weeks of solid rain.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s when the trip to the always reliably dry desert to shoot those petroglyphs happened.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Luckily a window of solidly good weather opened up not long after coming back from the desert, and I was on the road again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>23 years ago I traveled up to this same spot in Arcata CA for the first time. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was the first stop of what would become a life changing adventure.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This was less than three years after I arrived to US as a refugee, and at the time I was working nights in fast food places, while attending community college full time and getting ready to try and transfer to UCSD with biochemistry major.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Being amid those woods for the first few days of the trip made me realize that my life must be dedicated to my first love of photography, and subsequent travel up and down the west coast set that in stone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon returning, I switched my major to photography, and started the long and winding road of working in various photo businesses in order to appreciate and learn all various aspects of this noble art. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So this forest always held a special place in my heart.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Redwood trees are incredible. They are the tallest trees on Earth, some reaching well over 300ft, and they can live past 3000 years, with trunks that are over 20ft in diameter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their bark is dark red, and their enormous branches, located only at top part of the tree, block out almost all sunlight with dense needles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the summer, when it’s 95°F in the town square less than a mile from the forest, as soon as you walk into the woods you want to put on a sweater.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s almost always damp in there as well, as redwoods actually get a lot of moisture by trapping coastal fog in the morning, condensing it on needles, and raining it down.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Being among trees that size and of that age really puts things in perspective.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another thing that makes one realize the ravages of history, are the countless enormous burned-out stumps that dot the forest as far as the eye can see.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Those were the real old-timers, the original old growth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Native never cut those trees, and while considering them sacred, never actually lived within the forest, always in nearby meadows or river valleys. When European settlers arrived, especially starting with 1849 California Gold Rush, there was suddenly a great need for building materials.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Imagine expressions on faces of loggers when they saw that there was a forest that ran for hundreds of miles, with trees so big that you could build 40(!) 5-room homes from one single tree.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nature is still only rarely a first concern when people do things, and back then it was much less so.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Humans went cutting, and, by the time things slowed down, literally less than 2% of that original forest was left.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At that point, people saw a vast land in front of them, full of giant stumps which no man or machine at that time could uproot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>People wanted that land for agriculture and to graze their cattle on, so they really wanted those stumps gone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At some point, some mildly bright individual came up with an idea of burning the stumps. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Problem is, redwoods evolved to withstand fires pretty well; their bark is fibrous, and snuffs out the flame by starving it of oxygen, so only extreme and prolonged heat can get through that bark and down to actual wood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I guess the proposed solution was to try and burn them with root fires, so they would burn from the inside.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The spectacle must have been harrowing, and I can’t imagine how long or fierce those fires raged, but when it was all over, the outer portions of all those stumps still proudly stood; charred tubes 10-20ft tall, many of them wide enough to pitch a tent inside and have a fire next to it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These ghostly grim reminders of human greed and avarice were also not dead.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You see, when one dies naturally, redwoods sprout new shoots from their roots, as nearby original trunk as possible, so a new forest soon sprung up in the land that people could not tame, and you can see in a few of my plates that old stumps usually have 2-3 new shoots right at their bases.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One of the plates also captures a peculiar and beautiful natural phenomenon I was not expecting to see.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Around 2005 or 2006, there was an abnormal for the area weather event, with something akin to a mini tornado forming, and that whipped through the forest pretty strongly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Redwoods don’t usually fall from wind, but indeed their root systems are actually very shallow, so if strong wind is combined with rain, and the ground is soaked, they can topple over.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Shortly after hearing the news of that storm, I went back there to see the damage for myself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was surreal, with devastation visible in every direction. After coming there many times, and being familiar with almost every turn in that lower part of the park, the place looked unrecognizable and totally surreal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was like some sort of a lumberyard owed by careless giants, with splintered pieced the size of a train car jetting up in every direction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Those who wandered in and wanted to go where they always walked freely to, had to climb over and under and around huge trunks and crawl between branches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It looked like an absolutely impossible cleanup job, but I must say the city did an incredible job, and now it’s hard to tell which logs fell during that storm and which have been there for a century.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A particular scene though struck me as truly symbolic of the resilience of this forest.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One of the largest and tallest of the old burned stumps was crushed and broken by three near-buy younger saplings during that storm, so that was the second time that tree was in danger of meeting its demise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But no, nature finds a way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not all of the roots of the younger trees must have gotten separated from ground, and so when they all of a sudden found themselves in a 45° position, they reorganized their plan for growth, and started sprouting branches all along the top portion of their trunks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This phenomenon actually gave rise to a form of bonsai called ‘raft style’, and I can’t wait to see what it looks like in 20-30 years.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Let’s get back to daguerreotypes though, redwoods do tend to get me rambling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Two years ago, I actually made one of my best plates to date at this same place, but I was not satisfied that it was the only one I secured that time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I felt that this time, especially after the grueling desert adventure, I was ready.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ll say that going from the ultra-bright Arizona desert to redwood forest lighting was extremely challenging, especially seeing how little UV is present that far north and this late in the year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Humidity was also the exact opposite of the desert, with dew point hitting early, suddenly, and hard, so a couple of my plates suffered from that, but I think in one with the sun peeking through the old burned out log it really worked out splendidly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I brought two cameras with me, knowing that my exposures were going to be long.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One was my usual Zone VI, with 90, 150, 210, and 400mm lenses, and the other was a fixed lens Burke & James 4x5 Orbitar, with its 65mm Schneider. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sometimes I would set them both for similar exposures, or I would give the Orbitar such a long exposure that I could finish two plates with a faster lens on Zone VI.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The contrast in that forest is enormous, with deep shadows even midday registering at EV3, and splotchy sunlight getting through the branches unscathed being about EV13 or more.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below one of the plates I’ve posted a phone pic for comparison.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You can see the camera mid-exposure at the bottom of the frame, and I adjusted all values while still there to match the scene as closely as possible to what it appeared as to the naked eye. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I can’t really describe how happy I am with these plates, which are all 4x5in, by the way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even the unexpected light leak or two along the bottom edge of some plates somehow doesn’t bother me at the least, when usually I’d be pretty upset about it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A few of these plates though set my personal best record for now, and outperforming them is what I will work tirelessly at, but I really don’t know how much better they can possibly get.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuimiCt_H7OAcLaQxIjzHMmfGViefXjZAB1w94sRTx4ZnJj2DZnYZENKzPoqdVxl1d2ZX0svtV3tP-z1PRZnHReGwjwnfVlI8has4Ga2HsihOTpocpczessk65wz3JlH1aYLMNAc8MyUz/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1500" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuimiCt_H7OAcLaQxIjzHMmfGViefXjZAB1w94sRTx4ZnJj2DZnYZENKzPoqdVxl1d2ZX0svtV3tP-z1PRZnHReGwjwnfVlI8has4Ga2HsihOTpocpczessk65wz3JlH1aYLMNAc8MyUz/w400-h321/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 1, Stump Fungus Lifting Redwood Branch</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38WKpABHR85Y0xpyxv9DDqF1jnOWrRHQPZu08fKxJIAyvoG8KIbIkE37yjGXDZ3ieOc8bRDoP8T_JAVGQduULvqRI6pkHTHUSHNyhl1vl7AVov9T1Yqz4iHccVbWiRqxDVJeHik92ZKtR/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1184" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38WKpABHR85Y0xpyxv9DDqF1jnOWrRHQPZu08fKxJIAyvoG8KIbIkE37yjGXDZ3ieOc8bRDoP8T_JAVGQduULvqRI6pkHTHUSHNyhl1vl7AVov9T1Yqz4iHccVbWiRqxDVJeHik92ZKtR/w316-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" width="316" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 2, Mist in Redwood Forest</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM_a74f65vt6tmPnCEKEsJC-RTOjwhG-JoJgmp8gVkqvcqS7eizn9-Y8MrQNgrx1Vb3pvYrAzF5ktDsCGSowIvFALgJmXromuJl_enLQp6icymTAY2WKaRQRGA8jYWkKhZRagzm2hboKF/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1206" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM_a74f65vt6tmPnCEKEsJC-RTOjwhG-JoJgmp8gVkqvcqS7eizn9-Y8MrQNgrx1Vb3pvYrAzF5ktDsCGSowIvFALgJmXromuJl_enLQp6icymTAY2WKaRQRGA8jYWkKhZRagzm2hboKF/w321-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.JPG" width="321" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 3, Three Giants</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRI0m6-WeMHZ2q8I6okbHzELjUjAbigM_eJ6W50weL6iAlMVYH_mwBdS7oYTUJmhoqeFmk8lKZbMNMli9ZPjbS6kJjrtuW1baXXJr47FYsRdiGDasiW0B4SRh_H1285M1ywlZufUS7g6VU/s2016/Redwoods_2020_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRI0m6-WeMHZ2q8I6okbHzELjUjAbigM_eJ6W50weL6iAlMVYH_mwBdS7oYTUJmhoqeFmk8lKZbMNMli9ZPjbS6kJjrtuW1baXXJr47FYsRdiGDasiW0B4SRh_H1285M1ywlZufUS7g6VU/w300-h400/Redwoods_2020_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 3 being captured</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbkOu7JXe7qwWlFH6buFc8OsnhaBlVbzZTxr7xe40EW0QrIaNPRxiEGaE9qQVzAFHhsiUi0X7CiljJ9tpHihcLoAikfUMfcnjmjun4hMZ0qMmWuyQdPc5b8odD8fi3cxybe500zTSfo5r/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1198" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbkOu7JXe7qwWlFH6buFc8OsnhaBlVbzZTxr7xe40EW0QrIaNPRxiEGaE9qQVzAFHhsiUi0X7CiljJ9tpHihcLoAikfUMfcnjmjun4hMZ0qMmWuyQdPc5b8odD8fi3cxybe500zTSfo5r/w320-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 4, Old Giant</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoMgbAmRwuNhha65N5irVjHpL-88HNvyKPjcxvoolkvCpCFn02B1lQ57HJDj3dOXoIut8lMbredCsIJ3L_1eHsQAbzIRV174paHPA6bCO0iZ9V_7o9qUqpoNB2W7KyeephCc4ciHAKfpB/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1211" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoMgbAmRwuNhha65N5irVjHpL-88HNvyKPjcxvoolkvCpCFn02B1lQ57HJDj3dOXoIut8lMbredCsIJ3L_1eHsQAbzIRV174paHPA6bCO0iZ9V_7o9qUqpoNB2W7KyeephCc4ciHAKfpB/w323-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.JPG" width="323" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 5, Misty Woods</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5BbPvhbN5JZmR25S976TfT1Tv8J23i7TCZ7oOaj3K40yilw4acBKiDSDc3vW49ADwS-gSQDBA33B9_HxLSYdaBsW7R3qetGQ0vfKHPeNDPQEcy_jf-xI8XAfAE63DDHyR3a8v8kaaeRi/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1199" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5BbPvhbN5JZmR25S976TfT1Tv8J23i7TCZ7oOaj3K40yilw4acBKiDSDc3vW49ADwS-gSQDBA33B9_HxLSYdaBsW7R3qetGQ0vfKHPeNDPQEcy_jf-xI8XAfAE63DDHyR3a8v8kaaeRi/w320-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_7.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 6, Redwood Forest Glory</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgsRpEJs4s9JRuOi4K8h6P1q64PVWClLsM8t4KJ482MSeYFeoJKfRY0siSC5ACkZHxPMD9vIXN8k78G76BRIxW2YW-ghCkxVGw2AU-CpyMxeAWdXQ4G0kcy2f5YV9HF3a_r6Ehbb-KPCJ/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1196" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgsRpEJs4s9JRuOi4K8h6P1q64PVWClLsM8t4KJ482MSeYFeoJKfRY0siSC5ACkZHxPMD9vIXN8k78G76BRIxW2YW-ghCkxVGw2AU-CpyMxeAWdXQ4G0kcy2f5YV9HF3a_r6Ehbb-KPCJ/w319-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_8.JPG" width="319" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 7, New and Old</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_JOLwjbSxjrTKqqHc0iu4bSH45_wBeHyi8brGYat70XRZsoq6877V-5aSVGmMMFP9WZddu8Cm9WlvkZ2Jncnmk0GXIBgtO_UrNiS0W-t0zLG5PAY5Z_0X8omFxzei2qj6hN5dwkfzvZg/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1198" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_JOLwjbSxjrTKqqHc0iu4bSH45_wBeHyi8brGYat70XRZsoq6877V-5aSVGmMMFP9WZddu8Cm9WlvkZ2Jncnmk0GXIBgtO_UrNiS0W-t0zLG5PAY5Z_0X8omFxzei2qj6hN5dwkfzvZg/w320-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_9.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 8, Fallen Redwoods With Natural Raft Style Growth</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNU0WdQvhBssU8FlzdMXFYxiG_sXCIZFApgU5Hf4F8WpnWLhRIHd4y-hSvT_dyhyphenhyphenLUGbisYub61_X9FAr1GmZVyUtclHOrCYX28W95j_TwBVPjabtD-SALWoBPK9Q02bLu9bmvBsfGCZQ/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1204" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNU0WdQvhBssU8FlzdMXFYxiG_sXCIZFApgU5Hf4F8WpnWLhRIHd4y-hSvT_dyhyphenhyphenLUGbisYub61_X9FAr1GmZVyUtclHOrCYX28W95j_TwBVPjabtD-SALWoBPK9Q02bLu9bmvBsfGCZQ/w321-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_10.JPG" width="321" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 9, Sun and Burned Stump</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_5CoXObDK7SH_0GdB1a_NsjaWYJLdZxS4cMmIP1ne2w2EuJp1W2sSLxlsD3ijWqAglxKeLqLVLo_vPtLEyrzt9vmmDbVNnaFi4ENKtmFbMmYdPFW3P9rcufHfVLeF7lBqyuCxo2WU44E/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1189" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_5CoXObDK7SH_0GdB1a_NsjaWYJLdZxS4cMmIP1ne2w2EuJp1W2sSLxlsD3ijWqAglxKeLqLVLo_vPtLEyrzt9vmmDbVNnaFi4ENKtmFbMmYdPFW3P9rcufHfVLeF7lBqyuCxo2WU44E/w318-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_11.JPG" width="318" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 10, Redwoods at Dusk</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IVkp3Ra6S3TIrJJBAn8P7r9oLWZ-qfQaPEEJweoKSHrTM9gLjRxYp_-fTLs-Z1Zt50wYlq4B_oi7e5Emcb1T4PPI7Fiqiz5Ln5655diGVB9OBzcjQ_gJKf9VVhtiAVEZb4majUaIrx9e/s1500/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IVkp3Ra6S3TIrJJBAn8P7r9oLWZ-qfQaPEEJweoKSHrTM9gLjRxYp_-fTLs-Z1Zt50wYlq4B_oi7e5Emcb1T4PPI7Fiqiz5Ln5655diGVB9OBzcjQ_gJKf9VVhtiAVEZb4majUaIrx9e/w319-h400/Redwoods_2020_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_12.JPG" width="319" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 11, Tree Trunk Habitat</span></span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All these plates at this point are available for purchase, so feel free to find the contact link here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the risk of repeating myself, I will once again state that no digital reproduction on screen or in print can ever come near the beauty and depth of these unique plates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For example one of the plates below appears a little warmer on the left than on the right.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s actually opalescence of that plate playing tricks on copy camera sensor, depending on angle of view and lighting in real life that plate changes hue from purple, to neutral, to golden, so holding it is not something I can ever hope to convey via this modern marvel of communication method.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I do however welcome anyone to contact me, and make an appointment for a private viewing, should you ever find yourself in San Diego.<br /><br />Anton</span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-12694740962340885092020-12-22T21:10:00.002-08:002020-12-22T21:10:40.141-08:00Petroglyph Daguerreotypes on Daguerre’s Birthday<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"> Toward the end of November, I went back to one of my favorite places in the desert.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A spot out in the middle of nowhere, with nearest significant human population well over an hour drive away.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A tall cliff overlooks the arid desert plateau there, running for a few hundred yards north to south.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Winds blow tumbleweeds between desert shrubs and over cacti, and aside from lizards and flies it’s rare to see much life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This wasn’t always the case though.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thousands of years ago, beneath that cliff there was a river valley full of life and game, a beautifully lush prehistoric habitat. Dating as far back as 10.000BCE, various waves of Native American peoples thrived in in this area.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They left behind petroglyphs upon the face of this cliff, and on some of the more prominent rocks below.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Researchers place the oldest of these markings as being approximately 12.000 years old, with newer ones being 5000 and 1500 years old.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Various rock alignments and paths have also been identified on the plateau, just above the main painted side of the cliff.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having gone to this location before with wet plate gear, I wanted to pay homage to it in daguerreotype form.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Making those in the filed though is a task riddled with possible pitfalls, so this was to be a good test of my field readiness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I decided to camp there for two nights, because there’s nothing quite like being in the desert on those clear winter nights.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would set up on first day, work all second day, and have some time to shoot a plate or two in the morning of third day before heading back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of course, camping in the desert means that within an hour or two after arrival every item you brought with you is covered with an even layer of.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I knew that having some dust spots was going to be inevitable, and so made peace with them even while driving in, half an hour down a dirt road with some pretty hairy washes to traverse. I set up in such a way as to have most shade possible for my dark box and working table, but had to move the car and reconfigure once a day, because as soon as even some sun would reach the box, it would heat up to past 100°F. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Midday in the shade it was still 90° though, so fuming times and ratios had to be adjusted with every plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I also decided to switch my modus operandi, and this time limited my arsenal to only 19<sup>th</sup> century lenses.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With me I brought a 75mm Morrison WA, 100mm Dallmeyer 1aa, RR, 210mm C.C. Harrison Petzval, and 12in Waterbury single achromat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Selecting perspective for my images meant climbing with a 4x5 and tripod on a 45° slope riddled with boulders as big as a room, with plenty of cactus in between each rock and of course the always-possible rattlesnakes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Overall it was great fun, seeing how I consider moments of high concentration and intense work to be great fun if that work is in fact creative.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I fixed and gilded the plates after getting back home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thankfully I was reminded that this can indeed be done by a good fellow daguerreotypist, because gilding on location is a sure sign of begging for major trouble.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I selected the following 5 that spoke strongest to me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Two plates are of same composition; these were made with the Harrison, utilizing different aperture discs in order to have less or more depth of focus. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6HqwSd0J06LumgKrS_v3JOCDuBoG9W2RHQnIkkmuMT-30BcojvAyRivNIIebxhzx89YtN6AiI5gr7yuSbLGF6XLf8M5fPNzVref2RemyGOigckW8cgQ2glzn70xs7aCdAgn41mUC8IW7w/s2016/Desert_Darkroom_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6HqwSd0J06LumgKrS_v3JOCDuBoG9W2RHQnIkkmuMT-30BcojvAyRivNIIebxhzx89YtN6AiI5gr7yuSbLGF6XLf8M5fPNzVref2RemyGOigckW8cgQ2glzn70xs7aCdAgn41mUC8IW7w/w320-h240/Desert_Darkroom_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Dark box at dusk, petroglyph cliff in distance.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56M7tYb0gxLjRZKK6iogv3k8tJn-iG5UyC_myYcR3n8dEjV-ULXctC0o3rg_JU3-6IoUZeAq9nbAiXlqce8mhbthaycnYc1D6rLbRVDLeh0KenK5dBSv-AaCBYiwT7SkRC0z6i2OmldSB/s960/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="960" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56M7tYb0gxLjRZKK6iogv3k8tJn-iG5UyC_myYcR3n8dEjV-ULXctC0o3rg_JU3-6IoUZeAq9nbAiXlqce8mhbthaycnYc1D6rLbRVDLeh0KenK5dBSv-AaCBYiwT7SkRC0z6i2OmldSB/w400-h316/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 1, Dallmeyer 1aa</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaow6OBDz5qSwhI4_BQmqn7iQrcRXdRnRmEi9ceNm540ZzBZGGFOc9XbKLMx6wo238Tqm8C9Va_EdZ7sEW85ViDF5kFVahoRxb9gcSh-lpdpOBGxT9R7I9Owbrbr8Py-FKqFQ2wB-9szJ/s2048/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2048" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCaow6OBDz5qSwhI4_BQmqn7iQrcRXdRnRmEi9ceNm540ZzBZGGFOc9XbKLMx6wo238Tqm8C9Va_EdZ7sEW85ViDF5kFVahoRxb9gcSh-lpdpOBGxT9R7I9Owbrbr8Py-FKqFQ2wB-9szJ/w400-h318/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 2, Waterbury Single Achromat</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UES1tAKs_7U575pbEunioASkPB0KzQwYtNcIWlQhe_YrqQZvCzpBxBT5vkjd5m8CvAAzk8j5rqIyaY_ciMMe07CRWSDUmtWdQe60QTSIKNPZhvYPr4FHAVptWjx5a35dNtsXKNMlmznl/s2048/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1631" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UES1tAKs_7U575pbEunioASkPB0KzQwYtNcIWlQhe_YrqQZvCzpBxBT5vkjd5m8CvAAzk8j5rqIyaY_ciMMe07CRWSDUmtWdQe60QTSIKNPZhvYPr4FHAVptWjx5a35dNtsXKNMlmznl/w319-h400/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_3.JPG" width="319" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 3, Harrison Petzval f16</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7YKtrSsU8FRGYEM0xdJPclF8Xdp80ENW-cLqNdZhlvkl76E_TLe_8z9kT2l3JOTI5Lr8gcDg7MxyaeT9RxRBCnIfjKjS5sHRHSbydWg8Q8FD9NQs6g9TlMHUUqTjicxOxcWnDozLkal3/s2048/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1632" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7YKtrSsU8FRGYEM0xdJPclF8Xdp80ENW-cLqNdZhlvkl76E_TLe_8z9kT2l3JOTI5Lr8gcDg7MxyaeT9RxRBCnIfjKjS5sHRHSbydWg8Q8FD9NQs6g9TlMHUUqTjicxOxcWnDozLkal3/w319-h400/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_4.JPG" width="319" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 4, Harrison Petzval f5.6</span></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaFQbWNt0oq4u4iqyTC5GXIZINaTORyVH2ZHRv4H-IsliXWmIiBa7pp82vumCifH6tqxBkhQ8wNB49tR7qxJPf_gV-8QNXtqrikLVNVPRVui8wYxxmH22ZjqHcrHgXWi_Ng1eZnRgw9Oo/s2048/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1641" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaFQbWNt0oq4u4iqyTC5GXIZINaTORyVH2ZHRv4H-IsliXWmIiBa7pp82vumCifH6tqxBkhQ8wNB49tR7qxJPf_gV-8QNXtqrikLVNVPRVui8wYxxmH22ZjqHcrHgXWi_Ng1eZnRgw9Oo/w320-h400/Petroglyphs_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_5.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">Plate 5, Harrison Petzval f16</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some ambient info about the trip is as follows.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While driving there, I was traveling at night east on an empty desert highway, and, while going full speed, saw an animal just about to dart out in front of my wheels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Our reaction time seemed to have been about the same, because by the time my hands were making a move to the left it too froze in it its tracks, halfway over the white line on pavement. I didn’t move left much, so my headlights hit the figure full blast, and I was elated to realize it was a grey desert fox, which is one animal I have not yet seen in the wild, even by side of the road like this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For a second there, I got a great look at a beautifully furry creature, and off behind the car it went.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On the first night on location, I had a very small fire going, upon which I made my humble dinner. Shortly after finishing the meal, I was in the state of contemplative meditation, reflecting upon successes and failure of the day, and just staring at the ambers of the fire, as has been my favorite pastime since childhood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As one sits alone and looks at the fire, there’s a bit of a tunnel vision effect that happens, and the world outside the viewer and the fire pit softly muffles itself and gently drifts off.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s not a light or movement around you, and smoke materializes, rises up, and dissipates like civilizations in time. I must have been sitting pretty darn still, because all of a sudden two very bright triangles appeared within the rightmost reach of peripheral vision.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In my dazed dreamy state, I blinked as I moved my head much slower than perhaps the actual situation on the ground of having something unexpectedly come very near me, should have dictated. To the right of me, well within the reach of my right hand, stood an elegant and well groomed desert fox, with it’s medium grey salt and pepper fir, and large triangular ears with bright white fir inside those triangles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Beautiful creature must have been attracted to the smell of my recent dinner, and was peeking into the fire pit when I first saw it clearly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At that moment the fox realized I was not an inanimate object, and got seemingly confused or embarrassed, because it looked at me, back at the fire pit, at me again, moved away about a foot, made a move back for a split second, and then slowly trotted away and around the fire like everything was cool and planned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By then my hand was already going to my phone, and at that moment I was quick enough to get the fire-lit photo below.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I noticed that the fox didn’t exactly run off, but was hanging around and examining camp perimeter area just outside view, so I tossed a few bits of bacon and salami into the dark, and saw them being carefully picked up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As I tried to shoot another picture of two, complete darkness prevented my phone camera from focusing, but as it glanced over I did end up with that funny second ‘guess who’ photo.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The next night I was thinking my visitor would return, but coyotes were singing loudly nearby, so I think the fox was wise to stay put.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMG5U3qRKRE63M9CY7Fo_xbJpN9ot2FnHNqnfrUajcEyt6e23WVvwcg-j4FTr7RmKaO3f2YWxov2ClBHdSccTOgZYSodItgDRsujLGRmsklN1LV2FjU2KAm3PTLmLLNS3SC_6wJoW-sHD/s2016/Desert_Fox_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMG5U3qRKRE63M9CY7Fo_xbJpN9ot2FnHNqnfrUajcEyt6e23WVvwcg-j4FTr7RmKaO3f2YWxov2ClBHdSccTOgZYSodItgDRsujLGRmsklN1LV2FjU2KAm3PTLmLLNS3SC_6wJoW-sHD/w300-h400/Desert_Fox_Anton_Photo_Palace_1.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRn4DT-0ALxj_2trmhovym1_zC9TIj-zXBup2my_A_FA_qrSFyTg26dNzVGQLRkeu5HIKaCjZkYbWPqeaOo_Z65rVpLsy0ncoHIVxZqKep0a84hH4rKjEz4TqcjDj7pY_b8RAOYozQhmf/s650/Desert_Fox_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRn4DT-0ALxj_2trmhovym1_zC9TIj-zXBup2my_A_FA_qrSFyTg26dNzVGQLRkeu5HIKaCjZkYbWPqeaOo_Z65rVpLsy0ncoHIVxZqKep0a84hH4rKjEz4TqcjDj7pY_b8RAOYozQhmf/s320/Desert_Fox_Anton_Photo_Palace_2.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Along with enjoying cheerful crackling of the fire, the night desert is also perfect for stargazing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Milky Way is clear and colorful, and a myriad world can be seen twinkling down at you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As I started that part of my meditation, I soon saw a really bright shooting star, thinking it was a great omen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then another one, then two more almost at the same time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well, turns out the nights I picked for my trip were the best nights to observe the yearly Leonids meteor shower, so I was staying up as late as I could, and saw over a dozen excellent meteors each night, with one fireball, that’s when they break as they heat up, and make multiple fiery trails.<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon arriving back to civilization, I saw that the main day of my making plates out there, November 18<sup>th</sup>, happens to be the birthday of J.L.M. Daguerre, inventor of the noble photographic method I was employing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am also very grateful to be able to say that 4 of the 5 plates above have been purchased by one collector, and are currently awaiting shipment to their new home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am keeping one of the two near-duplicate plates as a reminder of this short but fruitful trip.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without such sales I would not be able to continue to survive and keep making more work, so, once again, Thank You to All who support independent artists like yours truly.<br /><br />Anton</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-12032536907451346342020-11-13T12:39:00.001-08:002020-11-13T12:39:50.461-08:00Cactus Cats of Balboa Park, Daguerreotype Dozen<p><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> <span>So much that a camera can do has yet been un-attempted, so many seemingly ubiquitous subjects have been limited to formulaic portrayal.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>My passion for photography, and life-ling dedication to this most perfect of art forms, implores me to constantly reinvent myself, and, whenever possible, the medium I love so much. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>In this project, I once again turned to documentary side of photography, the purest incarnation of this multi-faceted discipline. What could I do to make interesting images, while challenging myself and pushing the boundaries of how cameras have been used before.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Prior to this project, animals in their natural environment have never been the focus of daguerreotype images.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pets and livestock have been subject of rare and sought-after plates from 1840-50s, and a few landscapes by skilled daguerreotypists of that time happen to catch a wandering cow or two, but no serious effort seems to have been made toward focusing on creatures in uncontrolled settings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This really isn’t that big of a surprise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With its low sensitivity to light, leading to long exposures, daguerreotypes require rather long exposures.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Add to that having to work with a bulky camera on a tripod, which has very shallow depth of focus from which the subject can’t move much.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On top of that, daguerreotypists usually tended to closely follow market demands, and portraiture was by far the easiest kind of images to get paid for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Finally, preparation of plates is a tedious task, and if you’re not in any kind of control of your subject, a lot of trial and error comes into play rather quickly. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These challenges served as pure enticement to me when I learned of a colony of feral cats at our local park. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was never truly a cat person, always related more to openness and sincerity of dogs, but I respect all animals, and enjoy getting in touch with their energy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As most people are probably aware of, cats are among the least cooperative of all subjects, so I knew this was going to take a lot of patience and dedication. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Starting in early October, on nearly daily basis, I paid visits to this liberated feline hangout, armed with one or two plates ready for exposure.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The goal was to catch these creatures in candid moments amid their favorite backgrounds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They spend midday deep in the bushes, hiding from relentless San Diego sun, and prefer to emerge only an hour or two before sunset.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These kitties also don’t like to hang out in open spaces much, preferring deep shade of some low cactus or palm, which made exposure times range wildly, from 7 to 60 seconds, with most being 15-20sec.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>More often than not some noise from a nearby freeway or appearance of a fellow troop member made my subjects move mid-exposure, but I never let that discourage me from trying again and again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some individuals were just impossibly jittery, even when they sat or lounged their heads would be turning every two seconds, scanning surroundings for danger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Others were relatively comfortable with my presence, and all I had to do was not move too fast and hope that no sudden noises would scare them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Basically, seeing each successful plate coming out of my developing chamber felt like a miracle every time. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I can honestly say that this was the most difficult photographic project I’ve completed so far.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sure, there have been much more complex works that took me many more attempts than I could have ever expected, but in those instances I was usually shooting for something so well defined in my imagination that I could not deviate from that goal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time though, no preconceived notions of specific compositions existed in my imagination, the only aim was beauty and uniqueness. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was working in a strictly documentary style with a live subject, which I had zero control over, and so my patience and intuition had to be pushed to their limits. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Due to relatively high level of difficulty of this project, I gave myself a bit more leeway in terms of possible acceptance of plates with more slight imperfections that I normally would allow myself to have. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There was no way though I could bring myself to erase them, I mean look at that cuteness! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also, please do keep in mind, as always, that daguerreotypes are different from every other medium you have ever seen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s no way to really translate how each unique plate truly look in real life; thus images below are to be taken as a guide to their appearance. When examined live all these plates look considerably better than what I was able to achieve in copying them for this post, but only those who purchase each plate, and their guests of honor, will have a pleasure of experiencing these plate live. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwpgcZWx9tSwPR9OgjDbk7jO44-oGkGC-mNceP8AyRgcBU-AuO1mb5d5LgCy5GZhfjNEC3HtaKC3LX6Csq8qVKfz95NTnAMudui4mlhcok4BGDjNc3X4czqoTOjWexwS01mbrj43NNDly/s2048/Feral_Cats_Plate1_Daguerreotype_4x5_Anton_Photo_Palace_2020_W.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />Anton</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">P.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These 12 original plates are now available for purchase on first come basis.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Prices range from $1200 to $2500 depending on which plate it is, so please do feel free to email with inquiries.</span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-81995473965624917852020-11-06T14:41:00.000-08:002020-11-06T14:41:22.638-08:00Pandemic Summer, Silver Image Medley in Daguerreotype & Collodion<h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In this third and final catch-up post, I will briefly explore various inspirations of this summer and images resulting from them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perhaps the reader can gain a bit of insight to what makes me tick, and what makes me aim my camera in directions I choose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While subject matter varies broadly, all images are united by my unwavering conviction that beauty will save the world, and that in production of these works I not only find myself, but also bring a spark of joy to those who will see them and, in</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> case of personal encounter, feel their weight in hand. </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>DANDELION <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While on the patio of a local coffee shop, on a beautiful summer day, I was daydreaming about open sun-soaked meadows, flanked by shady mixed forests, taller blades of glass gently swaying in warm breeze.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s been a while since I laid in such a meadow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Such meadows allow one to clear a lot from the mind, allow one to simply be and feel Earth’s breath.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On the way back, right by the car, I noticed a small dandelion sprouting out from a sidewalk crack.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was ready to shed its tiny seeds, and I could feel the hope for them to be in that same meadow I was just picturing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I carefully brought it to the studio, and made this daguerreotype in a manner in which I would have seen it against the sky while we were both there, in Nature. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Blue is part of the process, and other coloring was added by hand.<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After the shoot, I took it to the local canyon, and released the seeds.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhglcOIs4d-ZwnUIbedzhY1agAYtl8H9cyjJEfLpxbcg6INdgGXZgo4xs5IPoiAxgH6z_JP22-WFTRWnGz6XdMgMrECVda9imxf6eK5nGDrGswbWR_bcEb29dmu2kwJh1ydtDC3-1W8DgKE/s2048/Dandelion_1%253A6_Daguerreoype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Framed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhglcOIs4d-ZwnUIbedzhY1agAYtl8H9cyjJEfLpxbcg6INdgGXZgo4xs5IPoiAxgH6z_JP22-WFTRWnGz6XdMgMrECVda9imxf6eK5nGDrGswbWR_bcEb29dmu2kwJh1ydtDC3-1W8DgKE/w341-h400/Dandelion_1%253A6_Daguerreoype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Framed.jpg" width="341" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Dandelion, 1/6th Plate Hand Tinted Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></span></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WALKABOUTS</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In Australian aboriginal societies, a walkabout it a rite of passage, a spiritual quest, undertaken in solitude, with aim of connecting with Nature, and finding your spirit within it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For me photography has provided this experience. Walking out of my darkroom with a daguerreotype plate in-hand and camera slung over my shoulder, is my spiritual experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All preconceived notions are shed, and I let the direction of my search be guided by the great flow of energy, which comprises all matter including myself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s hard to explain, it’s as if light itself makes me turn down this street or the other.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eventually I see something that asks to be upon my plate, and this is how the plates below came about.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It can be light striking bark of a tree, or a scene within geometry of which I glimpse my own ghost.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Plates made in this manner are most precious to me, as they best sing praise to what I regard as photography’s highest honor; its inherently perfect potential of distilling visual experience of life into permanent impressions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOVsqHpdTA0mG06TkyfZru2MxAjWJKtbL4Zkj05KOdUmaOI7E-LuNsZYyBN3Mc2-6DfJxn3FnWGOM-1KAmBFMlNjtvZbjKyw3q-ahrBEKAOFTmamTJu29wR_ihrj9GucmEPNb_9vdb0iR/s2048/Fountain_Palms_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1636" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOVsqHpdTA0mG06TkyfZru2MxAjWJKtbL4Zkj05KOdUmaOI7E-LuNsZYyBN3Mc2-6DfJxn3FnWGOM-1KAmBFMlNjtvZbjKyw3q-ahrBEKAOFTmamTJu29wR_ihrj9GucmEPNb_9vdb0iR/w400-h320/Fountain_Palms_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">San Diego Naval Hospital, 4x5in Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0Oad3ZmSPtTE45Ao65XYmXmRPdzlGAO113Yr2_MCo1v9tqB63Xj2Hus_uuOFp9m3JMTsJeCqyhA0kbfq1EzefU6_7CfA2x4uYi9-PVRp6mwfeSjEjTMSya3emyhgO-2874MXB_4247w2/s2048/Ghost_Of_Self_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1636" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0Oad3ZmSPtTE45Ao65XYmXmRPdzlGAO113Yr2_MCo1v9tqB63Xj2Hus_uuOFp9m3JMTsJeCqyhA0kbfq1EzefU6_7CfA2x4uYi9-PVRp6mwfeSjEjTMSya3emyhgO-2874MXB_4247w2/w320-h400/Ghost_Of_Self_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Ghost of Self, 4x5in Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHTiB5jhpR97yWovfeV-SfPFrH8-1TyLGeVX4js72jFMFt0Sor3w_doKyDsO00AFiThhUzvWMhabQe4gbZT8cfUhLLPOSCbi6zCI40YTZipWKB4HihsqGgQr8s0P6bV7Tm20Bzs-z4OuUx/s2048/Mustang_Gentrified_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="2048" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHTiB5jhpR97yWovfeV-SfPFrH8-1TyLGeVX4js72jFMFt0Sor3w_doKyDsO00AFiThhUzvWMhabQe4gbZT8cfUhLLPOSCbi6zCI40YTZipWKB4HihsqGgQr8s0P6bV7Tm20Bzs-z4OuUx/w400-h319/Mustang_Gentrified_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'65 Mustang, 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8AQRD6aWZduhFixYlLv56b08R4CtBu_jZ9cPOmJ65WPmIlwvfUsFolCgy-WOH6t-hmj78oTdNiEdOOAHVzrIFMWXU02WfbxQrl9Xm-A-3HoJwKb9A21M-Lclk1cMJZnf3Pd0g9FKDHe21/s2048/No_More_Turning_Away_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1650" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8AQRD6aWZduhFixYlLv56b08R4CtBu_jZ9cPOmJ65WPmIlwvfUsFolCgy-WOH6t-hmj78oTdNiEdOOAHVzrIFMWXU02WfbxQrl9Xm-A-3HoJwKb9A21M-Lclk1cMJZnf3Pd0g9FKDHe21/w323-h400/No_More_Turning_Away_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="323" /></span></a></div></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No More Turning Away, 4x5in Daguerreotype</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfk4p4XsLUJ9UWLzTZxfvgQiLBT4K_6PNPpFAVU_T4gpxHjhtP7kjsWnq701c8CnRp7JZnHBY6pP27KfUKT63LGROZTEQqs4apqhsSazyUFa2ZIlJW3dJ2-iEXczmCKFsFE7tmBOeta44e/s2048/Tree_Abstracted_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1626" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfk4p4XsLUJ9UWLzTZxfvgQiLBT4K_6PNPpFAVU_T4gpxHjhtP7kjsWnq701c8CnRp7JZnHBY6pP27KfUKT63LGROZTEQqs4apqhsSazyUFa2ZIlJW3dJ2-iEXczmCKFsFE7tmBOeta44e/s320/Tree_Abstracted_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" /></span></a></div></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Tree in Sun, 4x5in Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WATER TOWER<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not far from my darkroom is San Diego North Park water tower, a local iconic landmark.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When about 5 years ago, I for the first time felt confident enough to take a daguerreotype plate outdoors, it was this tower that drew me in. I still have that plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Later I made a small distant view, and traded that one with a daguerreotype artist from Germany for one of his plates featuring a water tower in his hometown.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On one of the above-mentioned walkabouts, I was once again drawn to this looming structure, but this time the tower demanded to be pictured differently.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Standing in front of it, I saw the layers of history over which the tower reined, and to tides of which it will eventually succumb, a host to its own ghosts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It took a concerted effort to make this plate come about.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Day after day, I kept going back, chasing this delineated transparency within complexity of a triple exposure.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vision is paramount in art.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once conjured, it can’t be compromised.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7tYGGPVTHX17jXXkGGS8NQQ8cuE8DpGC53XAUSINesA2k515ierRzwoVAKco0Fvs6Jnc48u25S9L-yVMONG5Obo-lzSQ8qFGfV88bJ0ZGyk8Zcw62Xpk3XfNvUFJbVjoSN_uLXFaLmLxp/s2048/Water_Tower_Triple_4x5_Daguerreotype_Photo_Palace_Anton.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1656" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7tYGGPVTHX17jXXkGGS8NQQ8cuE8DpGC53XAUSINesA2k515ierRzwoVAKco0Fvs6Jnc48u25S9L-yVMONG5Obo-lzSQ8qFGfV88bJ0ZGyk8Zcw62Xpk3XfNvUFJbVjoSN_uLXFaLmLxp/w324-h400/Water_Tower_Triple_4x5_Daguerreotype_Photo_Palace_Anton.JPG" width="324" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">North Park Water Tower, 4x5in Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br />GERBERA<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perfection can often be found within simplicity, one just has to be observant and trust their intuition.<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While passing a local flower shop on the way for morning coffee, I saw a bundle of gerberas near a window, and their colors snuck a smile under my mask.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upon getting closer, one flower in particular called my attention, and I thought how interesting it is that space seems to change depth and texture in moments like that. Depth perception is a product of our minds after all, so I wondered how I could capture that feeling of multidimensional effect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sometimes, when I want something very precise, I shoot some tintypes of a scene before going to daguerreotype.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Doing this is very much like making Polaroid tests for final exposure onto slide film, they have about the same ISO and nearly identical spectral response.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did 8-9 test plates, moving lights and adjusting background, but nothing seemed just right, and it always seemed like my vision escaped me by just a little bit, with image, in order to be perfect, needing to have attributes of several plates combined.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I then stopped my testing, buffed and fumed a daguerreotype plate, and for this first attempt, seen below, moved lights mid-exposure based on what I saw them yield during various tests.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was thrilled to see the plate come up just as I wanted. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As last step, I added color via hand tinting to bring life and depth to the image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s nearly impossible to capture the look of this piece, but I believe this angle represents it as well as a still image can.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></div><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkFVqm6ecJhJSvjplZhO2DCTYdznw1jK2q42BIuK9QvyCVzpWmUnPtiqfd_sXV3236z7PpoahcnchRC88-lhZjZspw1dlAul0QukXPfHhirgBM-ez4IQSDNRN1ziuVs_asA4BV-lfz-qS/s2048/Gerbera_4x5_Daguerreoype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Framed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2029" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkFVqm6ecJhJSvjplZhO2DCTYdznw1jK2q42BIuK9QvyCVzpWmUnPtiqfd_sXV3236z7PpoahcnchRC88-lhZjZspw1dlAul0QukXPfHhirgBM-ez4IQSDNRN1ziuVs_asA4BV-lfz-qS/w396-h400/Gerbera_4x5_Daguerreoype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Framed.jpg" width="396" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Gerbera, 4x5in Hand Tinted Daguerreotype</span></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BANYAN TREE</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ve been visiting this tree in Balboa Park for over twenty years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was as magnificent then as it stands now, and one day I got a hankering to immortalize it in daguerreotype form.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This pursuit ended up requiring a lot more effort than initially bargained for. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This tree is enormous, with crown circumference of well over 20m, has very dense leaves that are fully opaque, and has a boardwalk wrapping around with branches reaching down to just above head level.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This combination meant that almost no UV light is available by the trunk even midday, and I wanted to avoid splotchy sunlight, so had to wait until just prior to sunset.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another problem was in representing something this overwhelmingly large and somehow making sense of it, while fitting most of it in frame.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This was one of the few times I knew nothing short of 65mm would suffice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Luckily, a couple years ago I came into possession of an Orbitar camera, a dedicated wide-angle 4x5 by Burke and James, with a 65mm Schneider Super-Angulon. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That version of the lens being f8 at it’s most open didn’t make composing any easier, but after crouching between the roots a few times, and finally figuring out that my exposure at desired f16 should in fact be a whopping one hour, I did come away with image below, with which I was very happy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLw21yV4OgOe3VwrXxXEYbXiAjZLFAuzI5niFo2QPo2L0KoX9iqAV7oy1Wg03feov8NXbhsL5_TxzRq9686o01mPKbFBJQhoIFTOrrH36Y78SZeoOhHUuiibBHDz07Z5bgxtOJMHPOEhH-/s2048/Inspiration_Tree__Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLw21yV4OgOe3VwrXxXEYbXiAjZLFAuzI5niFo2QPo2L0KoX9iqAV7oy1Wg03feov8NXbhsL5_TxzRq9686o01mPKbFBJQhoIFTOrrH36Y78SZeoOhHUuiibBHDz07Z5bgxtOJMHPOEhH-/w320-h400/Inspiration_Tree__Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Banyan Tree, 4x5in Daguerreotype (SOLD)</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br />CIRCLES AND LINES TRIPTYCH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sometimes images appear from ideas, and those ideas are not exactly rooted in physical world. They call to be expressed through empirical experiments, guided by no more than a hunch or faint mirage, as of an owl seen through fog.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Where does the owl start and fog ends?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tips of its wings, brushed against the circle of the moon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How do they interact?<br /><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkhXbOlsbgB11V2RslQxYvCEhzU9SSDn_lqEm6PWSilyJ-740daEbHp-zU8dWuQxlhwqjTzw7Ig8ZcCYNRZqUl3sZitwbaGexGMEVNGepc-7Zw9YJXIw9WHibdKMvvndvcjMJSimnNm-j/w640-h640/Circle_Lines_Daguerreotype_Triptych_Anton_Photo_Palace.png" width="640" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Cicles and Lines, 4x5in Daguerreotypes</div><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />APARTMENT HOUSE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Modern architecture rarely inspires me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sterile and lifeless in its core, yet trying so hard to be different, with its brash colors, angles, and finish, it makes me wish I could do something about it.<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A new condominium building went up right in the middle of what used to be a street with a solid pre-WWII feel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is finished in shiny metal of fire engine red color, and stands there like a fractured clowns nose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It looks so comically out of place that it often reminds me of going to Moscow circus, and so on this plate I decided to treat it a similarly chaotically colorful manner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwYbXqMAB_nJkD2cbGMeLp-uOR8qm2CbwKCLZHNZJqfxiYB41QOwk3S0ZrpVWqoUqkaKHxXJ_65dMbK4svPigNovVJrhauDqTmtL1eKwkzDjo7BVYbEhczkb8DxnfGL-_8SDU-fkNmmg2/s2048/There_Must_Have_Been_A_Door_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1605" data-original-width="2048" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwYbXqMAB_nJkD2cbGMeLp-uOR8qm2CbwKCLZHNZJqfxiYB41QOwk3S0ZrpVWqoUqkaKHxXJ_65dMbK4svPigNovVJrhauDqTmtL1eKwkzDjo7BVYbEhczkb8DxnfGL-_8SDU-fkNmmg2/w400-h314/There_Must_Have_Been_A_Door_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;">There Must Have Been a Door, 4x5in Daguerreotype</div><br />WAY THINGS WERE<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just after the end of strict phase of quarantine (which I will mention was nowhere near as strict as it should have been), I took the larger of my dark boxes, and headed out to a local canyon park, and with Jozlynn, my favorite model. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Purity calmed by simplicity is effervescent and engaging, and in these plates we worked to portray this primordial spirit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A small technical note of sorrow is in order.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After making one of the below plates I learned that the purple glass it is made on is no longer produced.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The last company that made colored glass for ambrotypes moved production a few years ago, and since then has discontinued some colors in smooth finish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This beautifully deep purple color is exceptionally close to 1850s, so it was sad to learn of its demise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I still have a little bit left, so I’ll treat it with special care for pieces like this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The image can be lit from back to reveal its negative form, when backed with any surface and lit from front, it will yield a perfectly black and white look, but if light is balanced to come from both front and back (maybe 80/20 split), the piece will appear split-toned. A true delight to view and behold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></h2><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDQqZvOUB9nwV7ErXxnQbbH5I8VL-rrB7K01uVg0jZ4f2nFrmPCf960ptvNqJ84QtBxADEhyK0VHr10-ooI6UHugMUhTP0lGNDhphz17ajo5aewX3xZLAw8PWjXYuIdYMKFJ1ItPdiAJJ/s2048/Respite_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1618" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDQqZvOUB9nwV7ErXxnQbbH5I8VL-rrB7K01uVg0jZ4f2nFrmPCf960ptvNqJ84QtBxADEhyK0VHr10-ooI6UHugMUhTP0lGNDhphz17ajo5aewX3xZLAw8PWjXYuIdYMKFJ1ItPdiAJJ/w316-h400/Respite_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" width="316" /></span></a></div></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Respite, 8x10in Tintype</div></span></span></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNn99AeHiRVZ2pnxVWb6iCwjAIg2NEQigU8QQ0SOso3i3fKAzGRZUSHOUVzwamdoMDNPORalShJwopA2DNpsxA2Xre8FWD5KSBSuMAg1SQ6zoli5p3fqkXg_lw9iqNQAFcSefk4VVPccmf/s2048/Ghost_Of_Old_Normal_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1617" data-original-width="2048" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNn99AeHiRVZ2pnxVWb6iCwjAIg2NEQigU8QQ0SOso3i3fKAzGRZUSHOUVzwamdoMDNPORalShJwopA2DNpsxA2Xre8FWD5KSBSuMAg1SQ6zoli5p3fqkXg_lw9iqNQAFcSefk4VVPccmf/w400-h316/Ghost_Of_Old_Normal_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace+copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">Ghost of Old Normal, 8x10in Black Glass Ambrotype</div></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYZM-u6XxW7NVrh-LLbY5i2_dqEoKIFdHE8EOpXMGjzxSQeJ1bqmXuQSOzxyAXzfwrvAVavCm-72fLjQmw4r8ncQKom_FQBZge1QbSSgfe9MNico2CXgvMdRBKB5ogtaNKRGhFNrWLpO3/s967/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Purple_Negative.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="967" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYZM-u6XxW7NVrh-LLbY5i2_dqEoKIFdHE8EOpXMGjzxSQeJ1bqmXuQSOzxyAXzfwrvAVavCm-72fLjQmw4r8ncQKom_FQBZge1QbSSgfe9MNico2CXgvMdRBKB5ogtaNKRGhFNrWLpO3/w400-h320/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Purple_Negative.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">Quest, 8x10in Purple Glass Ambrotype (negative view)</div></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGK80osQpO6WST9372k8wbBmQJRa1QD6h7uwiqyOf2Kkdh-6B8MRPjIS2bpZz2rhWkS_WHQZII2GBe3ujqueaJexZcpLe_33dVoIX_5u9E79CM8hrxV7fkx1LXoOWL1jA2Yp9j8lFCBx8e/s2048/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1636" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGK80osQpO6WST9372k8wbBmQJRa1QD6h7uwiqyOf2Kkdh-6B8MRPjIS2bpZz2rhWkS_WHQZII2GBe3ujqueaJexZcpLe_33dVoIX_5u9E79CM8hrxV7fkx1LXoOWL1jA2Yp9j8lFCBx8e/w400-h320/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">Quest, 8x10in Purple Glass Ambrotype (positive view)</div></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86QT_-STYOV29IJ41pGP865u22JgS7HWwfTGd4-HUc3xDdosTp_Fzeu8jnx0fJWAEavzSWXoRrydA_SGlb91bejIylng9Lkb4L4ETUQvhtxuIge_Gs048cFu-8nEy-HOWg0wdW1FMnCqm/s2048/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Purple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1609" data-original-width="2048" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86QT_-STYOV29IJ41pGP865u22JgS7HWwfTGd4-HUc3xDdosTp_Fzeu8jnx0fJWAEavzSWXoRrydA_SGlb91bejIylng9Lkb4L4ETUQvhtxuIge_Gs048cFu-8nEy-HOWg0wdW1FMnCqm/w400-h314/Quest_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace_Purple.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">Quest, 8x10in Purple Glass Ambrotype (split tone view)</div></span><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNowdDQwpbf66VAH6hyrnM1q7YJxnKXkw7Yc93EXD8F5J7mUVYuZ9LNkiQmxFXIauFy3K0hH4AQxPadsT6VJXkxPNenjGmLw2oBVojfpOcm7elXovnhyphenhyphen2F5IABr5EPrbquJPIdYRQEfotk/s1280/IMG_3625.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1103" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNowdDQwpbf66VAH6hyrnM1q7YJxnKXkw7Yc93EXD8F5J7mUVYuZ9LNkiQmxFXIauFy3K0hH4AQxPadsT6VJXkxPNenjGmLw2oBVojfpOcm7elXovnhyphenhyphen2F5IABr5EPrbquJPIdYRQEfotk/w345-h400/IMG_3625.jpg" width="345" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;">1850 Purple Glass Ambrotype Example, backlit</div><br />FIGHTER<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another quick collaboration resulted in this 8x10 studio tintype. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jozlynn works in the medical field, and we wanted to pay tribute to those who risk their lives and serve society during a pandemic. I didn’t want to make prop covid molecules like I’ve seen many resort to, and I think these thistles are perfect; they are both reminiscent of the shape we have been shown by scientists, and they also stick to you if you aren’t careful, just like the virus does.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This image was made in-camera with 4 exposures and I couldn’t be happier with the way it carries initial concept.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFqyDC1se_qmW075ow0LMWgV9nSi9-sSMJAl2h29Td6hz9S6iqEkGzk5PnDGAdqgmdriGSjgXdjFwkTfuRU0F_Nb_9FHRLIRLkNFoniWMzsveENoWHMtUMQbtWCegk4vBb9YGICMCUyRg/s2048/Working_For_The_Cure_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1657" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFqyDC1se_qmW075ow0LMWgV9nSi9-sSMJAl2h29Td6hz9S6iqEkGzk5PnDGAdqgmdriGSjgXdjFwkTfuRU0F_Nb_9FHRLIRLkNFoniWMzsveENoWHMtUMQbtWCegk4vBb9YGICMCUyRg/w324-h400/Working_For_The_Cure_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="324" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;">Fighter, 8x10in Tintype</div><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A debt of gratitude is owed to individuals around the globe who have purchased plates marked as sold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I truly appreciate it, and wouldn’t be able to continue making work if it wasn’t for that support.<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Should You wish to add any of above daguerreotypes or wet plate collodion works to Your art collection, please do feel free to send a message.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Anton</span></h2><p class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-30139989446820251662020-10-01T13:05:00.001-07:002020-10-02T12:05:30.098-07:00Wet Plate Collodion Amid Pandemic<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Wet Plate Collodion Amid Pandemic</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Shortly after Yosemite trip, Covid-19 virus started to really spread.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everything stopped, people were ordered to stay inside as much as possible, and life seemed to have frozen in its tracks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I isolated myself in my studio/darkroom, and, like I’m sure many among us, fell into a bit of a depression, in part due to losing all prospects of work for the foreseeable future.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For days and weeks, I meandered about my little space, cleaning, organizing, maintaining chemistry, reading, sleeping way more than usual…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When going outside, it was strange not to see people’s smiles or even frowns; everyone was masked, and crossed the street upon approach as if whoever was coming their was wielding a machete and was covered in pig blood. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was weird.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I found myself staying in the darkroom longer and longer, days seem to stretch on without end.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There have been other periods in my life when energy was low, so low that it seemed hopeless.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the past, making art was what never failed to dispel those clouds, and so I knew I needed to shoot something; something new for me, something that would push the limits of my own comfort zone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Depression makes you feel small, alone, defenseless, and venerable.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When there’s nowhere to go and no motivation to do anything, even walls of my cozy and dearly beloved little studio start to seem like a cage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the past I rarely turned my camera upon myself, I’m not Cindy Sherman, but occasionally a self-portrait idea seems valid and worthy, and so it did this time around.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I also don’t usually shoot nudes, and certainly never before have pictured myself a la natural, so this was going to be a push in a new direction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I knew that my friend Justin, whose office is in next building over, had a small collection of vintage gas masks, so I asked to borrow one with a long tube, which resembles an elephant trunk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After all, elephants never forget.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They never forget the good times they had, and they know where water is even amid historic drought.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A fun challenge when doing self-portraits with wet plate is how to handle lighting and camera operation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In studio I use flash, and usually trigger it with a light meter, which is the only thing I now use that tool for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, I didn’t want to have anything electronic in my hands, or have the cord showing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fun solution was to hide the light meter in background folds in the corner, get in position, and find the trigger button with my pinky toe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Below are the two 4x5 ambrotype images I made that evening.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One was made on deep purple glass, and one on green.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfzMnrN79eM_nIIREZ5S_6hyLHazv_JX9FNeQ2gtfas_NxQIcDOFboi280dkpo20yJ6VNsSr1p_caOjQDicDAxCHqKivEFKow-6wHWStQqOO4K4gvu-ZzwFo_GX2OriRuGAjm6zMPe4zO/s2048/Mask_Anton_Photo_Palace_4x5_Green_Relievo_Self_Portrait.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1651" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfzMnrN79eM_nIIREZ5S_6hyLHazv_JX9FNeQ2gtfas_NxQIcDOFboi280dkpo20yJ6VNsSr1p_caOjQDicDAxCHqKivEFKow-6wHWStQqOO4K4gvu-ZzwFo_GX2OriRuGAjm6zMPe4zO/w323-h400/Mask_Anton_Photo_Palace_4x5_Green_Relievo_Self_Portrait.JPG" width="323" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYq2neS3QwdfU8Yyt-Jr0y0L6TLnQOosgTX2IPrTEGYaXqkszZthzqHU1alSDC8IdnVTaUEmuf-0asLcrmmxtuC4WRTG_jULcSGPJYVM2P8uYcgAxx9nONZDd-A1jVq8rmvGrRbUwLUfQ8/s2048/Mask_Anton_Photo_Palace_4x5_Ambrotype_Purple.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1646" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYq2neS3QwdfU8Yyt-Jr0y0L6TLnQOosgTX2IPrTEGYaXqkszZthzqHU1alSDC8IdnVTaUEmuf-0asLcrmmxtuC4WRTG_jULcSGPJYVM2P8uYcgAxx9nONZDd-A1jVq8rmvGrRbUwLUfQ8/w321-h400/Mask_Anton_Photo_Palace_4x5_Ambrotype_Purple.JPG" width="321" /></span></a></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First attempt was made on green glass.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I saw it after clearing in fixer, I wasn’t convinced that it’s the best I could do, so went for the purple one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Satisfied with that outcome, I turned my attention back to green plate, and figured out how it needed to be finished in order to make me happy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ambrotypes on colored glass, traditionally known as ‘ruby glass’ ambrotypes no matter what color glass is actually used, have an interesting quality. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you lay them down on a table or anything darker than medium grey, they look almost perfectly like a tintype, or usual black-backed ambrotypes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some cast may remain, especially under strong lighting, and you can see a bit of it in the purple plate above.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you back them up with black, almost no color comes bath through, but put something white behind them and you get a great duochrome effect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Green is a color often associated with disease, and all the collodion artifacts that appeared around me in first plate seemed reminiscent of swirls of air, laden with Covid particles, ready to envelop and attack me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To create the above affect, green ambrotype was backed with white mat board, and the area I wanted to have no color was painted black.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was really happy with how both plates came out, and was even happier when, while picking up the loaned mask, Justin saw the purple one and purchased it on the spot. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In fact, he liked it so much that he wanted to see how he would look in similar setting and on larger 8x10 plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A few days later, tintype below was born.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KQ_dza0q1EF1OGx1ZQ6WdNNh1EHTA0ke-jJi4S7PIgHCjX2aAXTU-l1ncUY_hp91SEblG2YfSTSUhDeU4oDtqgbZLs6LY9DdyLygVSObSUjoN4srC1oTgvD37cqvP5kNm3_05xLfZUFY/s2048/Justin_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KQ_dza0q1EF1OGx1ZQ6WdNNh1EHTA0ke-jJi4S7PIgHCjX2aAXTU-l1ncUY_hp91SEblG2YfSTSUhDeU4oDtqgbZLs6LY9DdyLygVSObSUjoN4srC1oTgvD37cqvP5kNm3_05xLfZUFY/w319-h400/Justin_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="319" /></span></a></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meanwhile the virus raged on. It was not long until worldwide death toll reached 100.000.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Justin had been collecting newspapers with large pandemic-related headlines, and suggested making a plate with the paper from the day this grim milestone was reached.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bus stop location was selected to represent the old mundane routine in a new way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tintypes are always laterally reversed, so writing there is backwards, and that adds another small part to the surreal situation we all found ourselves in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo810oOcI2JDGtl04RNh84DZFP3zDnSgGwFSrhkWzN4rQc8MqDbPtKEawTYFpXdoEb5OPTyp9Z8eDovxqxrCNRgRfkhdupblcGYczUVATEPW1PL0X7QJOWgUjg4A0TzC-lg9V6wTYL6J3I/s2048/Waiting_For_The_Bus_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1639" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo810oOcI2JDGtl04RNh84DZFP3zDnSgGwFSrhkWzN4rQc8MqDbPtKEawTYFpXdoEb5OPTyp9Z8eDovxqxrCNRgRfkhdupblcGYczUVATEPW1PL0X7QJOWgUjg4A0TzC-lg9V6wTYL6J3I/w320-h400/Waiting_For_The_Bus_8x10_Tintype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A few months passed, and US surged in number of Covid-19 cases as if it was a numbers race to impress the whole world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well, the world was very impressed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Impressed with sheer stupidity of anti-maskers, complete disconnect of current government officials from science and common sense, their inability to act according to protocols set up for decades for just these types of emergencies, with amount of lying and concealing, stonewalling and demagoguery; basically impressed all around.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In what seemed like no time at all, death toll hit 100.000 in just USA.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Among them were my great aunt, who, up until the virus, was going strong at her age of 92, and had to die alone with none of her few remaining relatives around her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I also hear of the passing of very kind and talented artist I knew and interacted with a lot, who lived in upstate New York and was I believe in his late 50s.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Debates though raged on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is it worth shutting down the economy over a few saved lives?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I doubt it’s a question many of those who personally know someone who died would be asking, but the voices of oblivious were ringing louder and louder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Plus, terrible things kept happening again and again with police brutality reaching boiling points, and erupting in protests all over the country.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then there’s the fact that’s in an election year, and there’s a good percentage of population who are very rightly worried about actual survival of democracy this time around, and so conversation around that topic got louder and louder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Basically, the virus seemed to have fallen in ranking of importance, and life seemed to have moved right along. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So with the 100.000 US deaths headline, we made the following plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbtH15pG7xUFGN__WsQE2X1O2j8-YQosiD9VNRAf2Scq7P9bJCXn4SzwsCY0yJsBkPs7ZMFHAFmCvO6tdGwG97Hd4lYHOXBkSF00KdVurljURsHUbIjXLuZa-7x_IDvPqmZixjcmc5N5z/s2048/Life_Goes_On_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1611" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbtH15pG7xUFGN__WsQE2X1O2j8-YQosiD9VNRAf2Scq7P9bJCXn4SzwsCY0yJsBkPs7ZMFHAFmCvO6tdGwG97Hd4lYHOXBkSF00KdVurljURsHUbIjXLuZa-7x_IDvPqmZixjcmc5N5z/w315-h400/Life_Goes_On_8x10_Ambrotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="315" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> Of all above plates, only the green 4x5 ambrotype remains available.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All 8x10in plates have been purchased by private collectors, and, as mentioned above, purple 4x5 is residing with Justin. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Anton</span></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-31522502227660027412020-09-26T13:38:00.006-07:002020-09-26T13:40:25.528-07:00Yosemite Wet Plate Collodion and Daguerreotype Adventure<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In January this year I took a trip to one of California’s true natural gems – Yosemite National Park.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The aim of this trip was to make a couple daguerreotypes, and to give a new camera I acquired in 2019 it’s first workout in over a century.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I traveled there with a friend, whose airport shuttle converted into a darkroom was to be the used for creation of our work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In retrospect that was a mistake, but more about that a little later when we get to daguerreotypes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The new camera I happened to have found with help from a friend in Colorado is a pretty special one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is an 8x10 field wet plate collodion model, made by American Optical Company in mid 1870s.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By then, Scovill already acquired the company, but kept it as a separate entity, marketing that line of products as higher quality built.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cameras from 1870s are fairly rare, and vast majority of the ones that get unearthed are studio models.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Those cameras stayed indoors, resting comfortably atop rolling stands, and so they survived in much better shape, plus I think there may have been just more of them than field models.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even with studio camera, it’s a fact that finding one with a matching and working plate holder is nearly impossible, and is always considered a medium-sized miracle. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Silver nitrate is a strong corrosive, and those wooden plate holders absorbed it little by little from drips of one plate after another, and over time the wood swelled, rotted, and rendered 99% of those holders completely unusable.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My suspicion, since each holder was made specifically for each camera, is that photographers would have used their setup until the holder became junk, and then stop using that camera all together, rather than sending in the back standard to have a new holder fitted. I was overjoyed to have found this camera with a nearly 100% intact plate holder.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By all signs I can find, the camera was well used, but with much care.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Original silver stains from wet plate era are overly abundant, and over time in one corner of rear door it even made a beautiful reflective silver surface.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Inside the holder were two reducing inserts; one original for wet collodion plates in 5x8in size, and inside that a smaller homemade one for 4x5in. The 4x5 inserts looks used, but lacks any sign of silver nitrate, so I suspect that is was made as dry plates became available, and used in second half of its original service.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a while, I can’t imagine how many thousands of images that could be, original wooden dark slide wore down so much on two end corners, that it started to have a gap, which would have let in large amounts of light, and so I recon that’s when the camera was finally retired for good.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Somehow this camera ended up in possession of a Colorado hoarder, where it sat for an unknown length of time before being rescued by my friend.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When it got to me, the only thing I had to do to the body was replacing the bellows, as original set was made of cloth dipped in early form of rubber, and though I am sure it would have been amazing and beautiful when new, after 150 years that rubber became hard as a rock, and would crack and chip every time I tried to stretch it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Replacing bellows and making a new dark slide out of some plastic were the only two things I had to do to get my new 150 year old baby back in shooting order.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also, because this camera takes really odd sized lens boards, it made most sense to put a universal iris flange on there, so any number of lenses can be put on that same board in seconds.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3rQ-pfsteW9EaIQVq3ZjOJPrWtOLT31VnJ2DhFyZ6araKMPAc4Pv6qteayAaFQE3Yg0k0xD2iZ6oXRX7yyS8IA8gUkwjYev0u8cqWD7Rfs_7oDgc7DWdZUdxrb7cRHT93oscMdtAvrx9/s2016/American_Optical_Scovill_8x10_Wet_Plate_Camera%252CDallmeyer_Triple_Achromat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3rQ-pfsteW9EaIQVq3ZjOJPrWtOLT31VnJ2DhFyZ6araKMPAc4Pv6qteayAaFQE3Yg0k0xD2iZ6oXRX7yyS8IA8gUkwjYev0u8cqWD7Rfs_7oDgc7DWdZUdxrb7cRHT93oscMdtAvrx9/w400-h300/American_Optical_Scovill_8x10_Wet_Plate_Camera%252CDallmeyer_Triple_Achromat.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There were two full days of shooting on this trip, and I decided to dedicate the first day to shooting wet plate collodion, and second day to daguerreotypes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yosemite is a magical place, and if one points their camera in almost any direction, they will be rewarded with a beautiful frame.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Still, I wanted to make my images stand apart from others.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With me I brought a variety of wet plate era lenses, but I think I ended up using mostly just three of them – 8in Dallmeyer Triple Achromat from 1864, 12in James Queen Single Achromat from mid 1870s, and 16in Voigtlander Euryscope ca. 1880.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A landscape photographer from 19<sup>th</sup> century could have easily had any one of these lenses in their wagon, as all of them are superb for making views.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dallmeyer lens actually came together with the camera from same estate, and so it really could have been together with my camera back then.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Working with a new camera is usually a bit nerve wrecking, because one has to readjust a bit to get used to quirks and specificities of each apparatus, but not in this case.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As soon as the camera was up on a tripod, it started working as if I’ve had it all my life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All controls are exactly where they need to be, and, after waiting for 150 years, plate holder slid into position as if drawn in by magnets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I made 9-10 plates in 2-3 locations, and here’s a selection of those 8x10s.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These unique original plates are now available for purchase with prices ranging from $500 to $800 per plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwMJdIu-IByp0WdHGxCHbad-18wMumEpXkvmnV3mbqGxslrL1PyLDHlEJLPatUUMuQWm_LeM4n0Lo1BWpTQx6dS6ZzUUdPAwdShVBB86CqX0yFJUIXQykegoLHFJvn_69o5nhWPwr7rP3/s2048/Yosemite_2020_8x10_Tintype_Half_Dome_Above_Treeline_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="2048" height="318" 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font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Second day was to be a day of daguerreotype. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We had another two wet plate photographers join us, which was rather distracting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even though they used their own setups, there’s still a lot of mental energy that goes into interacting in a group of 4 rather than 2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My mind was also scrambled by a conversation with one of those two, during which I found out that this particular person is unwilling to commit one way or the other to the actual shape of our planet, believe moon landing is fake, and considers willful ignorance to me morally superior to strict adherence to facts of and scientific methods.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I tried discarding that information, but to be in physical presence of such blatant and proud denial was simply depressing. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The other factor that was working against me was that I was operating in a brand new to me darkroom, one that has been built by a great wet plate photographer, but built strictly in a minimalist utilitarian manner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And yeah, I had to pack all equipment and chemistry and glassware and cameras and lenses for both 8x10 wet plate and 4x5 daguerreotype processes, which is a ton of stuff let me tell you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First parking spot was at the Tunnel View overlook, which is about the most known and visited spot, where thousands of images are made each day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>No matter though, I don’t think a lot of daguerreotypes have been made from there (actually I think none ever have). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Working in a new space, and having people in and out the darkroom and all around me didn’t make for an easy start.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>First two plates were not to my liking.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By the time I got third plate exposed, the other folks were done shooting collodion, and were waiting to move on. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I cleared the plate in fixer I couldn’t believe it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A most perfect plate I have ever made was staring up at me though thin cover of hypo. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I called over the others, and each of them let out an audible gasp when they saw it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I explained to folks not to be too excited, as there’s still a chance to mess it all up in gilding.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s true, that’s the last step in the process, and it can go horribly wrong if done haphazardly, but I haven’t had it turn disastrous in a while, so there was a degree of confidence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The image was so beautiful that my hands trembled as I washed it and mixed gilding solution.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The crowd all gathered inside the darkroom, mesmerized by the still unfinished plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is during this moment I discovered that the only thing I forgot from 100 pieces of equipment was my super clean gold chloride mixing beaker. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Panic set in, and it soon became apparent that aboard the large vehicle stuffed with beakers and trays and all other things relating to photography, there was not a single clean container.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I mean the whole darkroom was technically one large silver nitrate stain, but I didn’t have to lick the tables or eat off the floor, all I needed was one 20-50ml beaker that was clean.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nope, that wasn’t in the cards.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I selected the most stain-free plastic beaker and washed and scrubbed it best I could.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When first mixing gold and hypo, and if things are contaminated, solution can turn black instead of golden yellow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That didn’t happen, and so I was optimistic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I lit my alcohol burner and set it on table behind me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With reverent care, I placed my precious plate atop the gilding stand, and poured gold solution over it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I turned around to get my burner, and when I turned back it was as if I was hit with a meteorite.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Where just 2 seconds ago there was an image with every branch of every tree in the valley defines as if real, with Yosemite falls so pure and powerful, with Half Dome so mythical and misty, seen through purple opalescence amid atmospheric perspective, now there was nothing by a milky puddle of white cloudy solution, through with I could see only the delineation of sky against horizon, and even that barely so.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was speechless, staring down at it with a lit burner in my hand, I think my mouth opened but no sound came out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>People around me were asking ‘what happened’, but I just couldn’t talk, it felt like I just got shot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I described what happened to folks who know chemistry a bit more, they said it was most likely the tiniest amount of silver nitrate on the lip of that cursed beaker contaminated the solution as I was pouring it onto the plate, and caused some sort of a reaction that I have never seen before.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The image was gone though, not a trace.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I could barely talk for the rest of the day, but managed to pull myself together just enough to make one more plate at the next location.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is a very good plate, no doubt about it, and I would have been thrilled with it had I not seen the absolute perfection that just got obliterated in front of my eyes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Still, I had enough strength of mind not to gild second plate there, and kept it in water until we got to a place where I could find a single clean cup.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here’s that one and only daguerreotype of El Capitan, with it’s famous ‘heart’ showing and well lit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This plate has been sold.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKUteyMQchL2mUG9tSFeG56nd8fbaTAh4hmGGGz1yEG6x3FjhQVRcVDPv-sh8ffJ0aUGw5rcYMP0N924qPugQi_-Dv3TwpvTrVy2P4sAcziyazYv6lWBn3SzXwKYQ5CK7RjB0TsbjKlU5/s2048/Yosemite_2020_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2048" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKUteyMQchL2mUG9tSFeG56nd8fbaTAh4hmGGGz1yEG6x3FjhQVRcVDPv-sh8ffJ0aUGw5rcYMP0N924qPugQi_-Dv3TwpvTrVy2P4sAcziyazYv6lWBn3SzXwKYQ5CK7RjB0TsbjKlU5/w400-h313/Yosemite_2020_4x5_Daguerreotype_Anton_Photo_Palace.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In conclusion, I would like to say that it’s always best to work with your own setup, one that you know by heart, and where all objects may still be dirty, but they are dirty in a way that you know them to be.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also, I am in love with that American Optical 8x10, and I think it will become my main location wet plate camera.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">All the very best,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Anton.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Note - This is a catch-up post, and I will write a few of these to cover activity from first part of 2020.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In order to keep all 4 parts of Daguerrean Dream series together, I skipped posting until it was all finished, so there’s a bit of a backlog of images to post.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">P.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you think that through millennia all the millions of scientists alive have been a part of a perfectly coordinated multi-cultural multi-generational conspiracy to make you think that the Earth is round, when in fact it’s not, then you are a very special kind of human; the</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rare kind that I don’t ever want to cross paths with.</span></p><p></p>The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-1896986858958576732020-09-11T09:00:00.002-07:002020-09-11T11:07:39.228-07:00Daguerrean Dream, Visual Symphony - Part IV<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Daguerrean Dream<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Visual Symphony – Part IV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Etat Soutenu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> From the very first moment we gain consciousness, to the time it leaves us, all our experiences are sustained and defined by neurological system of the brain. Physical sensations, emotions, and dreams are stored within and interpreted by the same biochemical system of neurons, a nebulous grey matter web. What is real, what is normal, what is beautiful or ugly, all determined and catalogued within the same confined space we call our mind. Stacked and staggered impulses blend into a fine mesh of perception. Fantasy and and reality seem to dissolve each other and morph, as we are carried forth by fabric of time. Cranial wonders, secrets, and revelations guide us along an essentially existential experience of continuity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Encounters during waking hours may be as fleeting or as significant as those during dreamtime. Both can have as little or as much impact as we choose, and both add color to our awareness of self and all that surrounds us. While passing days bring tangible objects to which we assign a label of being real, times of rest provide for time during which a cocktail of truth and fiction flows unabated into shapes of its fancy, only rarely providing us with any degree of control. Life is a blend of the two, nothing more, nothing less. Amount of attention paid to proportions within this mix, and to which we decide to assign more significance, largely determines our journey through larger tale of history.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dylXjT1nzJIJ_dU1iHlPKh2MLdL5k8flDNlmhBDQwSzZyRPg5yGVqi8_lCVYZY-dEiLYB9bLOFWMU6tg_dC-w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> Consisting of ten 4x5in plates, Part IV of Daguerrean Dream series addresses my take on that which supports the state of my Being. Cacophonic selection of real objects and dream visions, fixed upon silver plates in roughly chronological order. As in life, continuity, afforded to us by things physical and familiar, is maintained via nano-scale network, one that is living and ever evolving. Daguerreotype technique is most natural choice for best representation of a singularly unique path of ones lifetime. With nearly infinite detail, and being intrinsically unrepeatable, daguerreotype images have their own personal presence. Opalescence effect is akin to the dynamism of neurologic network, with its lively play of color and shift of tone, changing right in front of your eyes. No two connections and no two interactions will be the same, just like in life we can’t walk into the same river twice. Infamously difficult to reproduce in digital or printed media, each of these daguerreotype plates will outlive me by hundreds of years, and will refract light from their surface and into the eyes of those who hold them in same way my eye saw it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> For daguerreotypes, video presentation format provides an experience most closely reminiscent of actual in-person examination. A moving image also mimics the play we see unfold in front of us as, we make our way from start to finish of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anton</span></p></div><br />The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-56181033702036466672019-12-31T22:58:00.000-08:002019-12-31T22:58:39.776-08:00Daguerrean Dream, Visual Symphony - Part III
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daguerrean Dream<br />
Visual Symphony – Part III<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imaginary <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scherzo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fast and fleeting
imagery of imagination, rip and ripple continually through consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a whimsical whirlwind, they momentarily
carry me to otherworldly places, where surreal scenarios imprint themselves
upon the matrix of my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reality’s
relativity is stretched to last sustainable limits, and in that stressed state
is let to mold itself anew, with freshly redesigned self-sustaining properties,
which let me glance upon themselves in relatable ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was I dreaming, or did that really happen? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this third
movement of my Daguerrean Symphony I wanted to explore the sacred space of my
dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I set out to explore those
endless ways, in which visual information, gathered and retained throughout the
waking parts of my life, is metamorphosed by the lens of fantasy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Episodes of daily existence and feelings,
scenes and semblances of all kinds, personal history and aspirations; all these
exist within the cranial annals of memory, a primordial soup of ephemeral
thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is during dreaming cycles of
our resting hours, and sometimes in brief apparitions we may label as daydreams
or, in more extreme cases, even hallucinations, that gray matter acts to
reorganize and reshape it all as if playing with building blocks. In which unexpected and exciting ways will these reworked forms present themselves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lying in bed, half
awakened from a vivid dream, I often concentrate on these lessons of newly
formed connections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times strikingly
bold, and at times as if cloaked by fog, they all have lessons for me to learn,
and, who knows, perhaps to teach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should
I labor to represent upon a silver plate a particular instance of such sight,
will the experience of one who views my final image be relatable to my own?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dare to dream so, but in the end that’s
irrelevant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> When you look at the 18 plates below, w</span>hat is it that You
see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which neural connectors are
triggered, which bits and pieces are trawled up from subliminal depth of Your
cognition? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreams and visions
are complex cocktails of reality and imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All senses and experiences are jumbled and
reorganized, and what emerges from that is usually something never before seen
or experienced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, to create these
daguerreotypes, I set out on a path not yet explored by image-makers of the
past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starting in late 2018, I devised
and executed a series of experiments involving over 100 separate trials. All work was carried out in strictly analog fashion. The goal was to explore properties of daguerreotype process, which, just
like our subconscious, were always hidden in plain sight. Along with other effects, I was most interested in controling and intensifying those colors within refractive capability of image surface, as well as exploring limits and boundaries of opalescense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By early spring , a</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fter much meditation upon plate behaviour while given various treatments,</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I produced the first plates, which would subsequently evolve into this third part of the symphony.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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selected to best represent the color of the original. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, looking at the mirror-polished silver
surface of the plate squarely and straight on, shows the viewer’s reflection, so
daguerreotypes are always viewed slightly askew. There is simply no way to even capture in a digital copy the amount of detail a daguerreotype holds, much less so to relate that to viewers upon a screen at 72dpi. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With its weight and presence, a daguerreotype
is meant to be examined live, ideally while being held in hand, and interacted
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the tones and colors you
see play and change as the viewer changes their position or the position of the
plate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So just imagine that you’re the
one holding these unique object we call ‘Daguerreotypes’. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daguerrean Dream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visual Symphony – Part II<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interplanetary Adagio <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Change is the only
observable constant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where there’s
matter, there’s flux.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Material substance
goes though various metamorphosis, and cultures, ideas, and emotions are no
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming to is followed by
prominence, forced out by decline and obscurity; the great wheel keeps
mercilessly grinding its gears. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gaining
a clear awareness of this at an early age, prompted my mind to actively seek
shelter from relentless onslaught of attachment and subsequent loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By directing more and more attention to dreams
and fantasy, a workaround seemed to present itself, where scenarios were
suspended in timeless ether of my imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Objects gained well-defined personalities, while time became a coloring
tool, filling in the gaps between the lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long before I
learned of idioms about a tree falling in the woods, or single clapping hand, I
often directed my attention to very similar themes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attempting to grasp it through as many senses
as I could, I would try to imagine the feeling of my room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that room like the back of my hand,
but yet I knew that I have always experienced that room with me in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How was it though when I was not there?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did it feel in there? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can I pick out one sunlit dust particle
floating through the air? Can I pick out a million of them all at once? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I attempted to grasp it all at once, a full
virtual reality with only my own neural connection and brain chemistry to aid
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve also always loved science
fiction writing, so space and time travel were often on the forefront of my
thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking up at the night sky, I
earnestly tried to picture and feel what was that thing they call
Infinity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is infinity of time the same
as one for space since what is one without the other? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I learned of
progress and evolution, I started to notice that those concepts, noble and
natural as they are, imply more and more so rapid renewal of technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recall taking apart a gramophone, barometer,
fountain pens, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those technologies
were at their time top of their game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet,
where does that perfection go when something new comes around?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the answer to this recurring question, I
once again turned to the familiar fertile grounds of my imagination. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, these antiquated objects found refuge
within infinity of space, upon colorful new planets, where they would still be
valid, needed, admired. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my mind, I
relinquished to such fate the catapult, spindle, steam engine and so many more.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With ever-accelerating pace of
innovation, more and more such instances occur on almost daily basis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This second part of
my visual symphony shows 7 fantastical perspectives, which can be seen as movie
stills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Objects presented there used to
fill our daily life with joy, or beauty, or be helpful to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Replaced by smart phone apps, and no longer
appreciated en mass on Earth, they were spotted deep within my dream-space, as
they set off on interplanetary expeditions, probing deep space for suitable
habitats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flood of ambient organic
sounds, accompanies their flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like whispering howl of wind as it makes its way across rolling prairie hills,
or the echoes of whale song reverberating from coral reefs, these sounds filled
in the ever widening distances between these imaginary space explorers, tying
them together choreographically in an interplanetary adagio. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try to extend your
senses in their direction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let the cold
emptiness of vacuum, or the enveloping clouds of unknown chemical composition
fill your mind and senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you feel
our long forgotten friends as they venture through infinity of time and space in
search of happiness? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Technique:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to faithfully translate my
vision upon daguerreotype plates a new approach seemed necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My explorers would encounter various atmospheres
of heavenly bodies, some of which would likely have elements and turbulences
unlike anything seen on earth, or even within our Solar System. Thus, those
colors and effects had to be teased out of my imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreams, as well as wakeful imagination, often
take familiar objects and sights, and place them in entirely conjured
situations, as if filling in the background and environments for those objects
upon a blank canvas, using free-association of memory to draw upon for
pertinent information. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In light of that,
all images in this series were made with objects positioned on pure white
background, usually a plain foam board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When desired, light was controlled to delineate planetary horizons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tones and colors seen in various atmospheres
and those of exhaust from my space travelers’ engines were created via careful
chemical manipulation, via a method that came to me in a dream. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, images
here are shown at a slight angle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
once again call attention to the fact that daguerreotype produces its tone and colors
via refraction of white light, so they change in appearance depending on
viewing conditions, and are best experienced live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to best reproduce the color though,
they have to be at slight angle, and be lit from particular angle, so for the
purposes of this post they were copied while being held in hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anton <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-34304295261589897982019-12-13T12:55:00.004-08:002019-12-13T12:55:56.754-08:00Daguerrean Dream, Visual Symphony - Part I
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daguerrean Dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visual Symphony, Part I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sonata in Natural Color<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While moving through
the passages of life, each of us carries a unique melody, a certain rhythm, a
distinct tune. This tune has its origin within physical world, but is given
structure and final form by filters of our perception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each sight we see is akin to a musical note
in a score, and our emotional responses are sounds, generated from that static
symbolic mark, but given flavor by each performer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most times this melody goes entirely
unnoticed, as if a current under a moored boat, gently swaying our experience
to and fro. At times though, with or without intent, we are set adrift upon
that ever-present current, and get a chance to merge with it in much more
viscerally and raw ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we focus
our conscious attention on such unconscious forces as dreams and unadulterated
imagination, the unseen can briefly be glimpsed, and it is those visions that
we fix upon page or plate to communicate them to the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreams have always
played an important role in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ever since I can recall, I was caught day-dreaming at all various places
and occasions, and my imagination constantly ran wild given even the slightest
opportunity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reality was a merely a
playground for my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asleep, I
dreamed in color, and sometimes those fleeting visions of the night left deep
impressions upon me, affecting the day as if a color filter was placed over it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These experiences led me to gravitate toward
photography as a medium of choice for transcribing such ethereal notion as
personal perception of reality into visual format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rooted in physical properties of interplay
between light and substance, photography allows the maker for a screen of each individual’s
dream-state to reveal intricate patterns of deeply personal nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manipulation of photographic substances and
equipment during the process of creation, is a transformation of visions of our
dreams into form that can be experienced by others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Works presented here
comprise an introductory piece, a sonata, part of a visual symphony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This symphony uses nanoparticles of silver
instead of musical notations,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and acts
to stimulate the visual rather than auditory sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sonata before you is meant to familiarize
viewer’s eye with previously unexplored pallet of natural daguerreotype colors
and textures, which lay dormant now for too long. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wanted to rethink the original method by which faithful images from nature were
obtained. In doing so, I felt unhindered by predisposition. While charting the
course of my exploration almost entirely empirically, I melded and reformed
with each new phase of discovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colors, shades, tones, and offspring of their interactions dance upon
the plate, reflecting the varied moods of dreams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Accessing those dreams and seeing them
solidified upon a silver plate is a joy like no other I’ve experienced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Z/11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water Drop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sun Splash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mind Works</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harlequin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gentleness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dark Matter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On process:<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why daguerreotype?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s simple, but it’s a two-part
explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First off,
daguerreotypes images are entirely unique, with each plate being as precious
and unrepeatable as a single dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finesse of detail, variety of possible textures and colors, incredible
stability and longevity those qualities attracted me from the start, Attentive
investigation into these aspect revealed to me new horizons, just as dreams
often do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While creating a
daguerreotype, one has to keep a constant focus in their mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mindfulness is paramount to success, and,
just like in dreams, one single seemingly insignificant detail can in fact be
the main determining factor, the crux and cornerstone of a particular lesson. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, aside from
its nearly unlimited resolution and mesmerizingly holographic appearance,
daguerreotype, with its unmatched historic significance, also happens to have
the most untapped potential of any other I’ve encountered over the three
decades of my photographic journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the first time I saw a high quality daguerreotype made in front of
me over eight years ago, I felt a relentless pull to translate my vision into
daguerreotype format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took a number
of years to get started, and then as many years to get proficient in this
demanding, and very physical process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once I was able to portray upon a silver plate that which I envisioned,
I wanted to make this noble process truly my own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a multitude of potential treatments of
it that went unnoticed or unutilized now for 180 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daguerreotype brought forth to the world the
art of photography, but since that momentous occasion, remained nearly completely
stagnant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My journey into this
visual symphony aimed to simultaneously develop new syntax for both my own
artistic expression and for this wonderful process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprises amid exploration of its hidden
properties, felt in perfect unison with what it is like for me to experience
moments of vivid dreaming, or when I let down all guards and let imagination
carry me forth to form new imagery with nothing but firing of synapse groups. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nanoparticles
composing daguerreotype image, each indistinguishable with naked eye, unite in
a symphony of a structured semblance, sometimes arranging themselves to mirror
a likeness of things material, at other times conveying something much more elusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time I look at a plate, prior to setting
in motion choreographed steps of polishing, fuming, exposing, developing, and
gilding parts of the daguerrean dance, I feel as if in a trance; waiting for
the final reveal during final drying stage, is like waiting for the morning,
when with first blinks of freshly opened eyes, I can still see the colors that
danced before me in my slumber. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Presentation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daguerreotype’s intrinsic potential for wide
variety of color through effects of refraction and opalescence were just of the
many untapped potentials I saw in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hear modern makers refer to instances when a plate has strong
opalescent effect as ‘a bit of good luck’, while I wanted to investigate all
the potential it had to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
ever held an abalone shell in your hand, and watched the colors play upon its
surface as you let sunlight strike it at different angles, then perhaps you can
imagine holding a daguerreotype and seeing, as you tilt the plate, hues of
color change from gold to purple, from sea-foam green to sky blue, from bronze
to steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, here’s no way
to capture any of it in a still image in order to present it online…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make matters a bit more complicated,
opalescence exhibits itself strongest while the plate is tilted at a particular
angle, while light is allowed to strike it from one particular side only, and
the angle of light matters as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conventional copying methods, such as scanners and copy stands, fail to
provide flexibility needed to accurately transcribe opalescence in any accurate
manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, images presented in this
blog are those of plates being held in one of the more favorable angles, and
taken with a phone camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand,
it would be nice to have a ‘straight’ file, and I am currently working on a
specialized copying rig, which will provide high-resolution files needed for
printing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand though,
daguerreotypes are always best experienced live, and not on a pedestal or wall,
but while being held in hand, so these images have a potential to remind
attentive viewers of that fact. <br /> First variants of themes above are currently not for sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, a unique interpretation of any image
you see can be made on commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colors and placement will vary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While your plate will strongly resemble the one you chose me to expand
upon, it will be a completely one of a kind original creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Anton</span></span></div>
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that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span><i>Macabre</i>: dwelling on the
gruesome, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">tending to produce horror in a beholder<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are around during the day
too of course, but the night is when they really thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the dark it’s harder to tell if you’re
face to face with a fellow person, or if it’s a chimacabre in front of you, and
they don’t even have faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, they are
vicious, purely instinctual, unforgiving. They read you with the speed of a car
commercial disclaimer, immediately sniff out the soft spot, and burrow in
mercilessly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once under their spell,
escape is a struggle, as they are as alluring as dangerous. They vary greatly
in their ranks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some feed often, while
others only need one hit to fulfill their life purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some may leave you in shambles just minutes
upon encounter, while others plant pernicious seedlings, which will erode your
foundation decades later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes a
while to build up immunity to chimacabres, and one is never fully safe, as they
keep evolving and following trends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our own off-shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through eons, their essence
has been shaped by the foul sludgy runoff from the continuous spiritual
distillation of humanity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our communal
subliminal fears and basic desires, refined, enlarged, and reinforced by
existential self-perpetuation, remain their favorite delicacies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Although chimacabres
evolved alongside human species in such a way as to be visually indistinguishable
with the naked eye, by pure chance, I discovered that spectral sensitivity of
daguerreotype technique, when combined with special lighting, allows for
photographic capture of their inner core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Presented here, are five 4x5in plates of first clear specimens I was able
to portray. I hope to find and succeed in capturing more in the future.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">About the medium: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Daguerreotype technique
was unveiled in 1839, and remained as main process of image making through
1850s. Each daguerreotype plate is a unique object, not unlike a Polaroid in
that sense. They are however rather laborious when compared to other
photographic processes. A daguerreotype plate is prepared and sensitized by hand,
and the image is created upon a pure silver surface via development using
mercury fumes. The final result is a microstructure of silver, mercury, and
gold upon a mirror silver surface. The surface exhibits strong opalescence and
an almost holographic dimensionality to it, the properties which are only
apparent when one is holding these objects in front of them, and are impossible
to capture in any form of mass reproduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus, daguerreotypes on the screen appear much like any other
‘photograph’, when in fact nothing can be further from the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">I strongly believe that
these images represent the first time ever that daguerreotype technique has
been combined with light painting.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">A great deal of thanks are in order to the infinite patience exhibited by Jozlynn, my lovely model, who strained her body over and over again in order for these images to come to life. <br /></span>
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The Photo Palace Bushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03885431570040940115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-66097959027417733642019-07-08T09:18:00.003-07:002019-07-08T09:18:57.365-07:00Kaleidoscope – New Daguerreotype Work
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daguerreotype, the first truly successful and,
in the eyes of many through history, the most beautiful photographic technique,
was introduced to the world in summer of 1839, so this year marks 180<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of Photography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Congratulations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After two major technical improvements were
added to the original process as announced by Daguerre, improvements aimed at
reducing exposure times and strengthening the adherence of image to plate, the following
basic procedure of making each image was set henceforth. A plate of copper
coated with pure silver is buffed to an absolute mirror surface, sensitized
with fumes of elemental iodine and bromine, exposed in camera, developed in
fumes of mercury, fixed with hypo, and then coated with gold by gilding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The elegant simplicity of chemistry involved
should not however be mistaken for ease of overall procedure, pitfalls are a
plenty and too much can depend on the smallest seemingly unimportant and thus
overlooked stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the chemistry
is also highly toxic, and should be treated with extreme respect and caution. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it’s all worth it, as when properly
made and examined, a truly fine daguerreotype plate has never failed to bring a
sense of awe to viewers of today as in early middle of 19<sup>th</sup> century.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been working with Daguerreotype medium
for about 4 years now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After having
worked with other analog photographic methods for about quarter of a century
prior, I fell in love with this technique for its incredible physical presence
and appearance, and the possibilities I saw in taking that further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the fall of last year that I spent some
length of time in the darkroom making 4-10 images per day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erasing, buffing, fuming, developing,
erasing, repeating…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few ideas were
tested and tested again, a few new ones emerged, merged with others, opened
possibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As things got more and
more complex, I decided to slow down a bit, and to produce a few small bodies
of work, which would be built upon single variations of Daguerreotype process I’m
planning to combine and utilize as part of my work with in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below is the first such illustrative body of
work, completed in early April. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First an
introductory ‘straight’ plate, made with all traditional methods as have been
practiced since 1840s, and appearing as representational as any semi-abstract
daguerreotype can be. The other 5 are variations of same subject, which explore
possibilities of color within this traditionally monochromatic medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim was to control placement of cool and warm
tones and keep them interspersed within the same plate, and to be able to switch
around their placement like in Variants #2 and #3. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
addition to color, I wanted to explore the possibility of creatively using the
inherently reflective quality of the daguerreotype plates in areas void of
image particles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no way to accurately and fully convey
via a screen how these 4x5 plates appear when one is holding them, letting the
light reflect from different angles, paying attention to the color and pattern
changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daguerreotype colors shift
their hue and saturation with angle of view and lighting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There can also be observed a pattern of double
mirror effect between plate and bottom of cover glass, which moves around
behind the image like a holograph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Viewers are asked to rely on their experience with handling and viewing
daguerreotypes live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Variant 1 - 4x5in daguerreotype</div>
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Variant 2 - 4x5in daguerreotype</div>
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Variant 3 - 4x5in daguerreotype</div>
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Variant 5 - 4x5in daguerreotype</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always resisted
writing artist statements and bios. In school, that part of every assignment or
exhibition was the most agonizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
felt overly simplistic to just describe what the viewer was about to encounter,
or why objects or abstract shapes, making my specific image or groups of images,
were presented in this way or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seemed that by assigning it a set number of combinations of words and
letters, designed to invoke a set of associations or emotions, and qualifying
and quantifying it that way, I would be doing a disservice to my work, by not
letting it have a clear and unadulterated voice of its own. I never did connect
with majority of artist statements I’ve read, be it on walls of student shows
or those of more established institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of the time, they seemed contrived, often borderline pedantic. Far
removed from subject matter in actual show, they often seemed to be paying more
service to the ego of the photographer rather than to photographs shown, or Photography
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, I kept
shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be a
‘photographer’ since I was very young, influenced by seeing my grandfather and
his Zenit 18 on all family outings, and how much joy it gave him to grab the
camera in crucial times and quickly change position for better light and
composition, or sometimes ask us to pose in just the right way, or sometimes
just to point it at things and directions I didn’t yet understand, and to get
locked into whatever he must have seen in that little window. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed on before I was old enough to learn much,
but right before I turned 12 my classmate showed me how to develop and print black
and white film, and at that point I knew that the darkroom constant was lodged
in my heart and mind forever. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I had
to keep shooting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My family moved to US
when I was 16, and prior to photography, spurred on by inertia of overachieving
drive that most immigrants seeking a better life in America have, I started
college studying chemistry, in order to follow my parents’ professional
footsteps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I always kept shooting.
It was something about the light, the act of vision, the process of solidifying
fleeting images seen by my eye while on the journey of life wherever it took
me, and the experience of seeing my thoughts and feelings about various subject
translated onto a page in form of shades and shapes in a visual manner with
light and chemistry. I needed to keep shooting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With passage of time
and accumulation of different work in a variety of photographic mediums, in my
mind started to congeal a more cohesive view of what it is that most excites me
about the photographic branch of the arts, and its myriad of processes, and why
it was that I can’t seem to stop shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A common thread started to come more and more into critical focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started to become apparent that no matter
where I found myself, no matter what I was going though in life during each
moment, I always found instances where Light and Shadow beautifully accented
certain subjects, and it was Photography’s innate ability to record this
interplay of shades upon tangible matter by use of no less tangible chemistry,
that relentlessly inspired me to give life to each individual image, regardless
of particular content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light became
content. Light became the focus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once asked myself
‘why not?’, and switched my college major from a reliable track of laboratory
research chemist and dedicating my education to the direction leading along an
often-uncertain and eroded, overgrown and yet congested, path of paying the
bills with images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the same
question I like to ask myself often while pondering my next image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not point my lens at this direction? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not try it this way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find myself enjoying absorbing light
reflected from a thistle in s field, just as much as it brings me joy to see it
strike any face in a compelling or complimentary way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reverend and grateful for the perfection
of photographic medium, which allows for seemingly infinite amount of both
precision and variation in capturing reality in all manners it appears to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without taking this into account, my work may
seem fragmented to an outside glance, but if one considers that the inspiration
stemming from Light Itself as a uniting foundational thread, the fragments then
make an almost Surat like single vision from the sum of all parts. My
individual images, projects, bodies of work, are all akin to separate letters,
words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and tomes of the same story or song. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel compelled to
dedicate this last part of this formulation of the impetus behind my work, to
addressing why I always chose to work in analog photographic mediums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world around us is a tangible place.
Molecules and atoms, which make up all that is visible to us now, switch states
and places in one grand infinite cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During some parts of this flow of energy, some of those molecules are
briefly arranged in forms that reflect Light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At that point, it becomes possible for Photography, processed through
the filter of each practitioner’s vision and skill level, to manifest the
action of distilling this combination of light and matter to concrete
compositions we call photographs. For me, it seems logical to make my images
from essentially the same particles which I photograph, real physical atoms vs.
more ephemeral electrical fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
attracted and intrigued by the continuity of this physical property in my
images, and the incredulous variety of way in which I can act to physically
arrange a set of molecules on a page to reflect a moment in reality as it was
experienced by my eye and envisioned by my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also heartened by the knowledge that the
Light reflecting from those molecules will reach the eyes of all future viewers
in the same manner as it reaches my eyes now, and that the weight of my prints
or plates will remain the same each time someone picks them up to feel their
heft and presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the past 6 years,
I’ve worked almost exclusively with direct positive techniques of wet plate
collodion tintypes and ambrotypes, and am now gravitating more and more toward
daguerreotype technique, which is irresistibly noble in its process and
unparalleled in visual appearance and sharpness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A direct positive it a truly unique
creation/experience with almost no chance for post-production manipulation,
making it a technically demanding way to work, particularly when one has a set
pre-visualization in mind and is set on actually having their vision to be
communicated precisely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A direct
positive exists singularly, like the moment during which all elements came
together for its making, and there’s only one set of molecules bearing that
particular visual semblance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of
that, I feel a deeper connection to each plate (of metal, or combination, of
metals or glass) with an image which I placed upon it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After varnishing a tintype or sealing a
daguerreotype, I am done with a given particular personal challenge of capturing
beautifully my experience as closely to my vision of it as I could and, as the
moment itself starts to recede to the annals of memory, while molecules upon
the plate hold it fixed as intended for at least a few centuries, I can be open
to meeting the next inspirational challenge as quickly as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, it’s fun to keep shooting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a 4x5 tintype made last night after typing up the above formulation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because a blog post without an image is only about as good as photography without a camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven’t posted
much lately, because I’ve been experimenting non-stop with a few new
daguerreotype techniques, and however promising the results are looking so far,
those experiments are slow going, and I’ll release at least part of it hopefully
soon.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But here’s something I thought up
and was able to execute in a relatively speedy manner, which I believe warrants
a look.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t believe this method of
making a panoramic image has ever been utilized before, so I’m dubbing it
‘Antorama’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Botanical Building and Reflecting Pool at Balboa Park</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7 4x5 plate antorama, 4 lenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point of the
antorama is to use variable focal lengths to achieve shortening or lengthening in
appearance of a scene within multiple frames of a view, in order to bring
distant objects closer or to be able to see more of those near the camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, by all means one doesn’t have to do
execute the antorama in daguerreotype format. As a challenge though, I don’t
believe there’s a greater one out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ever since 19<sup>th</sup> century a multiple plate daguerreotype
panorama (made in the usual way, with same lens for all plates) has been referred
to as the ultimate technical challenge in photography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daguerreotype plates are made on highly
polished silver plates, which are sensitized with fumes of iodine and bromine,
and developed in fumes of mercury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matching
all those steps over multiple plates, and getting same tonality and contrast
from one plate to another is a task unlike any other I know of in photography. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t have to take my word for it, but
using multiple lenses adds a whole extra level of fun to the pursuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, focal lengths in millimeters of lenses
used for above 4x5in plates from left to right are 120, 150, 180, 210, 180,
150, 120. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to daguerreotype
being a UV-sensitive medium, various lens coatings used by different companies
through the decades (and I also suspect the thickness of glass and the number
of elements that light has to travel though) make lenses give surprisingly
different exposures when all are set to same f-value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose that having a full set of same
type of lenses would help here, but I had to work with what I had, so it took
me a few experimental plates (shown below) to match exposures of Schneider 150
Xenotar, Rodenstock Sironar 180, and Fujinon-W 210.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after the first go at above view, I
understood that 5 plates weren’t going to be enough, as the composition ended
rather anticlimactically on both ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
then decided to add a frame with 120mm Schneider 120-XL on both sides, which
showed parts of the promenade walkways and made it into an approximately
220°view. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on previous experience
with the other three, I guessed the exposure for this lens and luckily got both
end plates on first try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4x5 Daguerreotype Test of 3 lenses (shown not gilded)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the above 7-plate
antorama to be as I envisioned, the sun needed to be out at 1pm, which is
normally something you can bet your bottom dollar on in San Diego from about
March to November. I won’t go into details of how much frustration was added by
climate change, and the fact that it seems that these past two weeks have been
the cloudiest and rainiest ever for this time of year here. Anyhow, while
waiting for right atmospheric conditions I decided to capture a slightly less
ambitious 3-plate view of San Diego Coronado Bridge, this time with just one
plate per lens (again, 150, 180, 210). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Diego - Coronado Bridge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 4x5in plate antorama, 3 lenses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two
compositions took a fair amount of effort and polishing hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, a few days ago, I was going at
it for a while and my shoulder got tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I didn’t want to stop working, so, to switch gears, I decided to see if
I can pull off another minor ‘first ever’, but this time with an easier medium
that can be done on the fly – wet plate collodion tintype.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During my Grand Canyon trips earlier in the
year, I saw more than enough tourists wielding phones propped upon those ubiquitous
selfie sticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us not address here the
impact of those sticks on user’s experience of his/her surroundings and the
narcissistic tendencies driving their sales, but among social media groups a
while back people jokingly speculated if this concept can be applied to
collodion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people expressed doubt
because of the usual understanding of collodion as being a slow methodical
technique, which requires long exposures and steady tripods with heavy cameras
upon them (though lately people have been using anything from Kodak folders to
tin cans to make images with). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
recall however anyone every actually going for it and trying it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, no time like a break from polishing
daguerreotypes to try something new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To imitate the wide
angle lens of a cell phone I chose the Burke and James 4x5 Orbitar camera,
which comes with a 65mm Schneider Super Angulon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having the top speed of f8, that lens wasn’t
exactly ideal, but I figured that with my relatively fresh collodion and
somewhat healthy silver bath, I should be able to get near ISO 1 speed, which
in direct sun would give a proper exposure of 1/4sec at f8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, holding a 4x5 outstretched on a tripod
as a selfie stick for 1/4sec is not exactly something you do when you want for
sure to get a sharp image, but I did all right on the first try and the image
turned out rather sharp, but a bit on the dark side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess my silver wasn’t as good and
collodion did age in the fridge over the 4 months that I’ve had it in
there…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, 1/2sec was the next try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I held my breath, squeezed the cable release
and voila: what I strongly believe to be the first ever hand held collodion
selfie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4x5 Handheld Wet Plate Collodion Selfie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been working on
daguerreotypes for a few months now almost non-stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s something I’m experimenting with
which I cannot yet reveal, but do stay tuned as results are coming along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in and out the darkroom I kept running
into my good friend and an amazing videographer <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20src=%22https://player.vimeo.com/video/333454676%22%20width=%22640%22%20height=%22360%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allow=%22autoplay;%20fullscreen%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E%20%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com/333454676%22%3EAnton%20Daguerreotype%3C/a%3E%20from%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com/justinrichard%22%3EJustin%20Richard%3C/a%3E%20on%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com%22%3EVimeo%3C/a%3E.%3C/p%3E" target="_blank">Justin Edelman</a>, whose office is
in the neighboring building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve known
Justin for close to a decade now, and over that time period he’s gone from excellent to amazing. The best thing is that he doesn’t stop pushing himself in terms of technique
and vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s been planning on making
a clip about my daguerreotype work, but lots of things are on his plate and
time didn’t come around until now, which is actually great, because now we were
able to catch a few of the latest experiments in process (though you don’t see
a lot of it there).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Justin also keeps up very well with the latest gear, so we combined
making of the below clip with his mastering the brand new camera he just got and that amazing
tracking slider, which made the last long cut of the clip be truly
special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> If Justin was able to do this as a test clip, imagine the quality of the product you would get if you hire the guy... </span>Thank you Justin!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you for reading. Back to the darkroom for me, the other daguerreotype techniques are calling to be transferred from dream to reality. This year marks 180 anniversary of invention of daguerreotype, so I really think it's time for that technique to be explored beyond that which has been done so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recently I was lucky
enough to acquire a famed Schneider Xenotar 150mm 2.8 as part of a deal I could
not pass up.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This lens has been touted
as one of the best by a lot of lens junkies whose chatter I see online.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For a while though, I’ve already had another
lens coveted and highly regarded by many others – the 178mm 2.5 Aero Ektar
(AE178).</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Having these two at hand I
wondered which one would be sharper wide open and how would their field of
focus act under more or less stringent test conditions.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To make things a bit more interesting, I
decided to include in the test one of my personal favorite lenses, a
Voigtlander Petzval 7in (so 178mm as well) f3.2.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The point of including it was two-fold.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One reason for inclusion was of course to see
how it’s sharpness would compare, but I also wanted to see how brightness of
exposure with it would compare to the two others, because Xenotar has excellent
new coatings on the lens and AE178 is also single coated, on top of that my AE178
suffers from relatively minor yellowing due to aging of the thorium element and
there’s also a fair amount of condensation in it, to which I can’t get for the
life of me, those darn set screws are super tight… See a picture at very bottom
of the actual condition of my AE178.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
other two lenses tested are as close to mint as you’ll find with Voigtlander is
showing only extremely small amount of surface cleaning marks and the Schneider
is like new.</span></div>
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you see that this is a fairly loose personal test, I wouldn’t be surprised if
someone else out there has a very clean AE178 that may give better contrast and
sharpness because it’s not all fogged up. For what it’s worth, here’s how I
conducted the test and results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zone VI camera, with ¼ plate sized plates (3.25inx4.25in), using same collodion
of unknown formula (whatever batch was closest in my fridge, I don’t label
them, just look at color).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used
strobes to eliminate any chance of moving and before firing it I discharged the
pack and gave it same 20sec to recharge, to eliminate possible differences in
flash power, I also used a focusing loupe to make sure the center of my
sharpness target, which I placed in the center of the frame, was in perfect
focus on ground glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Developer
temperature was controlled between plates by keeping the bottle refrigerated up
until 15sec prior to pouring over the plate, and development time was carried
out according to a timer for 30sec on each plate. KCN was used for fix and time
in it was also restricted to 15sec exactly. <br /> Afterwards, plates were copied while still wet, using Canon 5DII with 24-105 lens at f11. Standard amount of sharpening was applied in Photoshop, no other adjustments were made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Voigtlander focus is a little off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not sure if this is due to me missing it somehow even with the loupe, or
chemical focus, which would be super weird because I’ve never ever noticed that
issue with any Voigtlander Petzvals, so I’m inclined to assume that it was either
me missing the focus, or something moving somehow on the camera…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decide for themselves what they are looking at, and what appeals to them most. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Cheers,<br />Anton</span></o:p></div>
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