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Some questions are best left unanswered, you'll need to read the book when I get it published someday.
Unlike some of the guys that visit here, I believe you can tell I'm certainly not a hater of women. I appreciate fine works of art & beauty.
That has always been my philosophy about women.
Understanding that beautiful creations can sometimes be dangerous (mountains, storms, sea) but understanding or attempting to understand helps mitigate the danger.
Some of those old black and white photos from a couple hundred yrs ago, man, some of those people had some somber ass mugs on them.
My mom has a picture of her grandmother as a young woman, standing on the porch behind her mother. My great-great-grandmother has the typical pinched, disapproving look on her face, but my great-grandmother is laughing. My mom also has a photo of her from about the same time, riding a little tricycle and grinning. Apparently my great-grandmother was a bit of a red-headed hellion. I only knew her as an old woman, and she died when I was 16, which makes me sad. I wish I had known her better.
Some of those old black and white photos from a couple hundred yrs ago, man, some of those people had some somber ass mugs on them.
I have a lot of old black and white, what they call, tin-plate pictures. Everyone's dressed like Colonial America and there is a reason why no one is smiling in any of those photos. I learned this in a photography class in college.
An image is transfered dark or light grades to film based, in part, on the amount of light that enters the lense (shutter speed) to allow a lot of light in the shutter must be completely open, smaller if you wanted a darker photo. Film speed in modern cameras also contributed to helping this.
With the old accordian looking cameras they used they had to leave the shutter open for a long, long time to capture the image with the light, but no one could move even an inch while the 10 minutes were going by. Try and hold a smile for 10 minutes and what ended up happening is it showed up blurred on your face if you stopped smiling. So to alleviate the problem they just had people pose with a straight face to avoid blurred movement.
And all this time I thought everyone from that era was just constipated.
Last edited by Thursday007; 10-01-2010 at 10:57 AM..
With the old accordian looking cameras they used they had to leave the shutter open for a long, long time to capture the image with the light, but no one could move even an inch while the 10 minutes were going by. Try and hold a smile for 10 minutes and what ended up happening is it showed up blurred on your face if you stopped smiling. So to alleviate the problem they just had people pose with a straight face to avoid blurred movement.
I believe they also used braces that ran up the back and onto the neck, to help steady the subjects. Lots of fun.
This has been a tedious effing day. Do any of you have any alcohol? :sigh:
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