Hi Andy, I was just making the point about the long exposures with the early processes, like Heliography. Somewhere I've got a dag that shows the head-brace used to keep people still enough to get a sharp portrait back in the early days. I've been shooting here in Belfast with a 4x5 loaded withvTri-X. Quite a few of my images are losing the pedestrians because of their movement with the long exposures. The local skateboard park has people showing up standing along the edges, but the "bowl" is completely devoid of skaters. Fun stuff! On 27 Aug 2011, at 13:21, Andrew Davidhazy wrote: > Hans, I agree with the Niepce photograph but that one was of a rooftop and did not show vanished pedestrians - the one I am thinking of is a photo of a boulevard in which there is a shoeshine event taking place and the parties are more or less visible because during the course of the exposure they did not move much - while the rest of the population scurried about. > > Andy > > On Aug 27, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Hans Klemmer wrote: > >> Kostas, >> I think Niepce' famous photograph was an 8 hour exposure onto a plate coated with Bitumen of Judea... >> >
