I love this shot of the ring bearer, he had such a calm and confidence presence. This was one of the only times I have really posed a person, but he seemed like the type who could pull off a natural look once I got him in the right posture, and I was right. I like the original photo (red), but I like the deguerrotype even better. I believe one of the reasons old photos are appealing, is because they turn your subject into a ghost. Isn't it a coincidence that as a photo ages, it fades, just like we think of ghosts as faded... or maybe it is because of faded photos that we think of ghosts as faded.
I often wonder what all these photos I make will look like in a hundred years. The manufacturers of the paper I use say that they will resist fading for about a hundred years. Does that mean they will look exactly the same as they do today. That concept is odd, can you imaging looking at a photo from 1908 that is just as sharp and crystal clear as the day it was taken? This whole last century has been defined by the current photographic technologies ability to fade. The old BW photos would yellow, the old color photos would loose saturation, etc. You can almost tell when a photo was taken by the type of fading. Does this mean that you will be able to spot a photo from the early 21st century by its lack of fade?
On that note, I have heard of a company that can produce glowing paint very inexpensively. glopaint.com I thought it would be great to use this glowing paint in an injet application to make photographs. So, it could be, that in the future photos will actually glow. Then, we could spot a photo from the early 21st century as it would be one of the photos that does not glow. Just a thought. In fact, if anyone reads this, I thought of it first so be sure to include me in on the patent!
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