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I am with Chris Olsen, his daughters, and [livejournal.com profile] jonsinger.

Chris is making daguerreotype portraits of Jon. This requires a blazing array of lights, including multiple banks of bright blue LEDs. There are, of course, several steps of treatment with wet chemicals. It is helpful to have the assistance of daughters.

These pictures look very nice.

Daguerreotypes. In 2014.

These are the kinds of people I run around with.

I am a lucky guy.

Date: 2014-06-25 03:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gerisullivan.livejournal.com
So cool. Wanna see!

Date: 2014-06-25 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coyotegoth.livejournal.com
That does indeed sound cool.

Date: 2014-06-26 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neowolf2.livejournal.com
The banks of LEDs reminds me of the guys (Jordin Kare, etc.) doing power beaming with arrays of laser diodes. These can also be used to cook hotdogs.

Date: 2014-06-25 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kevinnickerson.livejournal.com
At some point I want to get Chris to make a Daguerreotype of my wife in her Princess Leia bikini.

Date: 2014-06-29 05:04 am (UTC)
erik: A headshot of me! (Photo)
From: [personal profile] erik
Daguerreotypes? Not Tintypes?

Date: 2014-07-02 06:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
I'm vague on the distinction.

Some were on glass plates, one was on a metal plate. Chris mentioned that this was aluminum, not tin.

Date: 2014-07-02 08:30 pm (UTC)
erik: A headshot of me! (Photo)
From: [personal profile] erik
Glass: Ambrotype
Aluminum standing in for Tin: Tintype
Silver or silver plated something, image looks like it's made of fog on a mirror: Daguerreotype.

Daguerreotypes take a really long time to expose and are very finicky.

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