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Should probably be in the Photography thread but thought you might be interested.

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darn - that was my first pair of leather boots, and the guy still couldn't give 'em a good shine.
 
Cool photo! I wonder if the street was actually deserted, or if people and carriages didn't register on the 5 minute exposure because they were moving - whereas the guy getting the shoeshine was relatively still. Maybe the Daguerreotype process didn't have the resolution to register time lapse movement. Fascinating. And a bit eerie ........
 
HealeyDave said:
Cool photo! I wonder if the street was actually deserted, or if people and carriages didn't register on the 5 minute exposure because they were moving - whereas the guy getting the shoeshine was relatively still. Maybe the Daguerreotype process didn't have the resolution to register time lapse movement. Fascinating. And a bit eerie ........
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My guess is that you're right - there were more people moving about who did not register in a long exposure, but the shoeshine guy was still enough in one place to get captured. In this long exposure I took at Point Loma, you can just barely see some people that are almost gone but still visible as ghost figures.
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HealeyDave said:
Cool photo! I wonder if the street was actually deserted, or if people and carriages didn't register on the 5 minute exposure because they were moving - whereas the guy getting the shoeshine was relatively still. Maybe the Daguerreotype process didn't have the resolution to register time lapse movement. Fascinating. And a bit eerie ........
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Most certainly there were other folks on the street, according to an account told by Daguerre himself. The exposure time was too long to stop the movement.

As kids we made a lot of timed images by street lights, making ourselves "ghosts" by holding still through about half of the total exposue time. Daguerre showed us the way. :ROFLMAO:
 
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