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Really, really old family picture(1873)
Comments (18)A standard, but nice photo. Back in the 1870s, exposure speeds had improved. In good light, speeds of 1/50 sec were possible, but in a studio setting with lighting less than outdoors, the speed was more likely 1/25 sec which is getting a bit slow, but still practical. However, the subjects would have been instructed to 'freeze' just before the photographer snapped the shutter. The problem was that it was not many years before this when long exposures were required, and that idea persisted in the general population long after shutter speeds were upped. People holding a pose for several seconds struck a pose they thought they could hold without moving. A nice smile is fleeting, changes, and produces a blurry photo when the exposure stretches over several seconds. Also, a family picture was serious business, so a dour expression was common. In the early days of photography, studio portraits made use of 'props', literally, real props. The subject's back was held against something to help the person to hold still. This may have been a heavy rod that was hidden by the subject's body. Some of the dour expressions reflect's the subject's attitude about having their picture taken....See MorePhotograph Machines - family pictures
Comments (14)Thank You Stephanie :o) Copyright laws are the only way artists have to protect themselves and their work (and it IS work taking a portrait of someone). If I spend an hour working on just the right lighting, pose, background and expression, and spend a fortune on equipment, rent, backgrounds, and props, then I deserve the money those portraits are worth. Kinkos does not deserve that money, no matter how cheap they are. What if I take a picture of a baby, and the parents like that picture so much they enter it in a photo contest? Without copyright, I don't get any credit for that photo. What if competing photographer likes a portrait I did so much that he decides to use it in one of his advertisements? With out copyright, I have no protection. What if parents decide that they like the photograph I worked so hard on, but they don't want to spend the money I charge for it? With out copyright, they can take it to Kinkos and pay them for the work that I did. I get nothing for my hard work. Not only that, but then my work is associated with the crappy looking copies those parents had made. ANY photograph I take, is MINE. Doesn't matter what the subject is. I allow people to buy copies of that photo. It may not seem like a big deal when you don't want to shell out the money that the photographer deserves, but it is a big deal. You would never tell your children that it is ok to steal something from a store because that store is charging too much for it. So why is it ok to steal an artists work (or to allow a copy shop to steal my work)? Rebecca...See MoreIt's time to post some more old family photographs
Comments (25)This is another recent find: My stepmother, age 3, with her maternal grandmother in Scotland. The back of the photo says "Marion with Wee Granny." I guess this grandmother wasn't very tall. :-) Wee Granny's name was Marion Orr Hughes. Her daughter Mary emigrated to America with her new husband shortly after their wedding. They returned with their children--a boy, 4, and a girl, 3--for a visit several years later, but never went back after that. It must have been so hard for the parents in the old country . . . no email, no Skype, no jet travel. I've often thought the same thing about the parents of American pioneers. To see their grown children and grandchildren venture out in a covered wagon, not knowing what might befall them. Anyway, here's little Marion and big (or not) Marion....See MoreNOW I finally know
Comments (3)No we won't be sorry! Isn't learning new things fun?...See More- 6 years ago
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