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Lest we forget ...

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Brassai!
 
After all that, I have a confession to make. I'm the world's worst photographer. I (repeatedly) 1. Forget to take off the lens cap; 2. Forget to charge the battery or leave it out entirely, and 3. forget to put the card in.
 
AngliaGT said:
Our Daughter does professional photography on the side.
She has a following.jennifermilotaphotography.com
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Fine work!

My "career" began as the assistant/apprentice to my mentor, he did wedding photography within a fifty mile radius of his studio. At age thirteen/fourteen I schlepped two large fiber cases of 4x5 sheet film holders and observed him working with that Speed Graphic camera. Lighting, posing, anticipating folks' reactions... a much under-rated ability it is, to do "bride chasing" well. Looks like your daughter is a modern Master at it.
 
There was one younger lady who was interested in having
family pictures taken by her,but changer her mind because she didn't
want to spend the money.A little while later,there was a tragedy in her
family.
After that,she sent our Daughter a note saying that she'd regretted
that now,& she wishes she'd have had it done.
 
Kinda sad. But: time and ability count for something, too bad it was recognized too late.

Once took photos for a lawyer whose 911 suffered damage due to a new tire separating and ripping up the left rear fender. Printed five 8x10 shots detailing the damage and asked $10 each, he was going to use the shots to sue the tire company for the damage. Delivered in a couple hours... he balked at the price. I took the prints, ripped them in half and tossed them in the wastebasket. He was speechless.
 
AngliaGT said:
There was one younger lady who was interested in having
family pictures taken by her,but changer her mind because she didn't
want to spend the money.A little while later,there was a tragedy in her
family.
After that,she sent our Daughter a note saying that she'd regretted
that now,& she wishes she'd have had it done.
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We have the family pic that was the last before my dad died - it is a very special pic.

And when we last did family photos we made sure the took some of my mom alone, for the obituary eventually.

This summer was family pics as my aunt is moving to British Columbia and we are aware that a couple of gatherings were likely the last.

not professional but my mom's 90th in July

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And make sure you label them with plenty of details. Going through old ones left by parents and grandparents I'm using all name changes, birth, married, any other so hopefully years from now there's no confusion over who anyone is.
 
I enjoy taking pictures when I go places mainly just for my own memory so I can look back at them later and remind myself that at one point or another I got to do something that didn't involve being at work or struggling to fix things that are way over my head.

I never studied photography so most of the names mentioned go over my head - one historical photographer I ran across information on that really got my interest was the Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii who had been commissioned by the last Czar to document the Russian empire - he used a triple exposure method where he took 3 glass slide exposures through red, blue and green filters to capture a color image well before the creation of color film. He had a special triple projector setup to recombine them into a color image, but obviously there was no way to make a color print at that time, so very few people ever saw the images. He was able to get out of the country with a large quantity of his artwork when the communist revolution hit and most of it ended up collecting dust in the Library of Congress because there wasn't any way to really exhibit it. Withe the advent of computers and digital image manipulation they have been able to digitally combine the red/blue/green exposures into single images and it is amazing to be looking at photos that were taken in the very early 1900's. The Library of Congress has a sub-site dedicated to this collection and it it fascinating to flip through...

The Library of congress link is:

Photographer to the Tsar - The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was born in Murom, Vladimir Province, Russia (originally believed to be St. Petersburg) in 1863 and educated as a chemist. He devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s Prokudin-Gorskii formulated an ambitious plan for a...
loc.gov
 
Yakko - that is excellent. Thanks for the details and link; I'd never heard of Gorskii or his 3-plate process before.

Tea Harvesters, ca. 1908:

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Really wish he'd made some color plates of the Romanovs before their murder in 1918.

Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
Doc - he didn't want to pay $10 each for photos which might save him $1000s?

Was the lawyer a partner in Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?
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Well, he was from Pennsylvania, but not Philadelphia. šŸ˜

His time & effort=$100/hr. My time & effort=$0/hr?!? I simply matched his arrogance with my own.
 
NutmegCT said:
Yakko - that is excellent. Thanks for the details and link; I'd never heard of Gorskii or his 3-plate process before.

Tea Harvesters, ca. 1908:

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Really wish he'd made some color plates of the Romanovs before their murder in 1918.

Tom M.
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I think he used one really large plate and moved it through the camera to get the 3 exposures (since any movement of the camera during the process would really screw up the alignment of the exposures). So each plate had 3 images - one for each color. Its been few years since I read the info on exactly how his process worked.
 
YakkoWarner said:
I think he used one really large plate and moved it through the camera to get the 3 exposures (since any movement of the camera during the process would really screw up the alignment of the exposures). So each plate had 3 images - one for each color. Its been few years since I read the info on exactly how his process worked.
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That would make sense. You can see two of the women in that frame have moved enough to have the colors out of "register."
 
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