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Challenge: 100 Years Old (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: home
Date: Mar 8, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 32s
Galleries: Vintage, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Mar 8, 2009
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This is a double exposure "overlay" - set my camera to Bulb and held the shutter open for as long as I needed to get each of the 2 elements into position, holding a black card in front of the lens between exposing each element. I exposed the letter first for maybe about 1 second, then exposed the picture for 5 seconds. Total time the shutter was open was a little over 30 seconds. It took about ten tries of different exposures for each element, and lining the picture up just so, such that certain faces weren't obscured by the writing.
An honest to goodness photo of my ancestors, dated 1905. The letter is from 1875, that I picked up at an antiques market, from a family unknown to me. In the letter, an aunt details how everyone at home is sick and asks if the woman to whom the letter is addressed will come to help care for everyone, as she had promised. Beyond that letter though, the details of what happened to all of the family that had fallen ill is lost to time. |
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04/17/2009 07:20:14 AM |
| Very creative - both, your technique, and the pose the photographer used for your ancestor's photo. |
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03/18/2009 06:16:11 PM |
the score this received saddens me.
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03/18/2009 02:36:09 PM |
| What a cool idea and even better that the photo is that old. |
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03/16/2009 10:03:45 AM |
| Very clever, young lady! And I love that you have a picture of your kinfolk from that era - that's very cool. |
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03/16/2009 07:41:03 AM |
| Ahhh, now we know how to a legal overlay, this is extremely well done.. |
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03/15/2009 02:13:03 PM |
| Fabulous although I'm sure your methods were called into question. Glad it wasn't DQed. |
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03/14/2009 11:08:19 AM |
| The subject brings interesting questions. |
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03/14/2009 12:02:15 AM |
| Sorry, I don't get the title of your photo. |
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03/13/2009 07:50:38 PM |
| I wonder what it is about old photos of people that makes you want to know their stories. Very nostalgic. |
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