Mohamed

Digital Artist: Mohamed Sabet

Digital Daguerreotype

Image Details
First the image was blended with a rust texture, then applied to this silvery background blended with Luminosity. Daguerreotype images are made onto a copper plate coated with sliver to high gloss. The silver surface was then exposed to iodine fumes to form sliver iodide (the light sensitive material). This plate was then exposed in large format camera and developed using mercury fumes under red or yellow light then fixed as usual. The image is very fragile and easily damaged.

Comments

Joh. Friedrich
Great Daguerrotype without all those dangerous chemicals. Horay for PS. Oh, my nit-pick. The position of the truck dab in front of the building makes it static just like Elly's boat. The perspective of the building is different than the perspective of the truck. That suggests that you pasted that truck in there. It means, if I am right, you could have placed it further to the left.

Elly McKellar
An digital imitation of a very old technique. Very interesting, but I'm glad we don't have to do it that way anymore and appreciate the modern cameras.

Jiri Polak
You definitively got this old time and picture feeling. The image fits nicely into the frame. At first I thought that it was snowing heavily that is just another feeling I have.

Gordon Schmidt
Whoh, sounds like you have cooked up some secret chemical solution rather than an image. Got to say that regardless of the alchemy involved it does look interesting before the digital era. Seems a lot safer with pixels. I like the image but find that the truck seems to be very clear as to the resolution of the image. But it is a great way to do something dangerous with a safe method.