Friday, April 3, 2009

My Response to the Daguerreotype Workshop

The daguerreotype workshop left me with an appreciation for photography, because I am accustomed to the quick and easy fix of digital photography. Not only that, but the process of preparing and developing a daguerreotype is more labor intensive than traditional 35mm/darkroom photography. I will now think twice when complaining about how long something takes, in regards to photogenic processes. I just wish we would continue to do daguerreotypes because the imagery is so beautiful and raw. It is almost like projecting our ideas into a fantasy world of the past.

1 comment:

  1. Love this paragraph!

    One little thought, word "photogenic" means: forming an attractive subject for photography or having features that look well in a photograph: a photogenic face. So probably you mean photographic... though your way is very poetic.

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