Blogging (As WHL Says) from an Undisclosed Location

[beamjockey]

I am with Chris Olsen, his daughters, and 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.

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

So cool. Wanna see!

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

That does indeed sound cool.

[acmespaceship.livejournal.com]

Not merely Daguerreotypes. Daguerreotypes lit with LEDs.

Next project: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/what-instagram-would-have-looked-like-in-the-1800s/

[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.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

At some point I want to get Chris to make a Daguerreotype of my wife in her Princess Leia bikini.

[erik]

Daguerreotypes? Not Tintypes?

[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.

[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.