Making a daguerreotype

This video was created by Anton Orlov to better explain the process of making a daguerreotype.
orlovphoto.com/
Filmed by www.justinrichardphoto.com

[@wrextuczivubinomnb]

"I could do some Daguerreotype" sees video "nevermind"

[@nadined3576]

"Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created 'Daguerreotypes', a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror."

[@acetylcoa9324]

LiS

[@goldon5909]

Photos are very precious but the process of making these made them even more precious. 👍👍👏👏

[@anthonypearson4056]

The Daguerreotype was not 'the first photographic technique' (0:06). It was, however, the first commercially viable process.

[@antontintype7832]

Maaaaan…. That was a while ago that we made this! I’m still super stoked how that plate turned out, and on the first try too! Hope you still have it :)

[@robertcaffrey6097]

Daguerreotype is truely one of mankinds finest artistic doscoveries it's a pity that so many harmful chemicals are needed to achieve results.

[@TheStockwell]

There's a method of producing daguerreotypes without mercury using the "Becquerel" variation of the process. However, hard-core daguerreotype makers might think this is like using Auto-Tune. 😐

[@robertcaffrey6097]

@@TheStockwell thanks for that, i'm LOL at the comparison to "auto tune"

[@MsCassieCrowe]

An amazing process. I was just looking through a collection of post mortem photos from the 1800s and early 1900s and most of them are deguerreotypes. I guess in those instances the photographer didn't worry too much about their subject moving during exposure!

[@SStupendous]

Daguerreotypes were hardly used beyond the 1850s, so I'd be very curious to see these photographs? Don't think I've ever seen a Daguerreotype photograph from, say, 1880. We've had instantaneous photography in commercial use by the 1860s, and in ordinary use since the silver gelatin process in 1871. Even photographs labelled "Daguerreotypes" from the 1860s-1900s are not really, just a name used for photographs, a bit like how there's the word "Hoover" used for vaccuum cleaners in certain places, evn when the brand is not Hoover.

[@3blackbar340]

the egg thing is not a good idea

[@thomasmarlega174]

Wow!!!!!!

[@__kittylovesick9747]

you're so pretty on this daguerreotype!

[@classichealths]

well narrative video. It helped me a lot

[@SatchelStreams]

2:28

[@Kenocasta]

How expensive is to that nowadays? Can you easily find everything?

[@evandrociaccia106]

Yeah, I think it's actually quite expensive. Only the camera will cost you more than $800, and all the chemicals are hard and costly to find - unless you already work with them. Overall, the process really takes a lot of experience and time.

[@SStupendous]

@@evandrociaccia106 Wetplate Collodion process is much less cost. Only the silver really that's expensive.

[@justicegear85]

This is awesome! Thanks for the share!

[@Dorypowa]

that's incredible

[@stayrudh1334]

great!

[@jobispapergames5]

I really enjoyed the video. I'm taking Art class for a requirement to my degree and have a new sense of outlook on Art and everything around me. Even the way my kids draw pictures. I am doing a blog for my class assignment on a daguerrotype picture "Portrait of Two Women" and thought I need to know more about this process for me to give an opinion on this picture.. Thank you for your video!

[@JuliaperfumeBr]

so beautiful I wish I could use one

[@Irish1705]

First comment lel