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You said you would come
You said you would come
krnodil


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Challenge: 100 Years Old (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: home
Date: Mar 8, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 32s
Galleries: Vintage, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Mar 8, 2009

 This is a double exposure "overlay" - set my camera to Bulb and held the shutter open for as long as I needed to get each of the 2 elements into position, holding a black card in front of the lens between exposing each element. I exposed the letter first for maybe about 1 second, then exposed the picture for 5 seconds. Total time the shutter was open was a little over 30 seconds. It took about ten tries of different exposures for each element, and lining the picture up just so, such that certain faces weren't obscured by the writing.

An honest to goodness photo of my ancestors, dated 1905. The letter is from 1875, that I picked up at an antiques market, from a family unknown to me. In the letter, an aunt details how everyone at home is sick and asks if the woman to whom the letter is addressed will come to help care for everyone, as she had promised. Beyond that letter though, the details of what happened to all of the family that had fallen ill is lost to time.

Statistics
Place: 112 out of 184
Avg (all users): 5.3438
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.1159
Avg (non-participants): 5.5165
Views since voting: 1780
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 160
Comments: 9
Favorites: 2 (view)

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Canon EOS-10D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 04/17/2009 11:20:14 AM
Very creative - both, your technique, and the pose the photographer used for your ancestor's photo.
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Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
 03/18/2009 10:16:11 PM
the score this received saddens me.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/18/2009 06:36:09 PM
What a cool idea and even better that the photo is that old.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/16/2009 02:03:45 PM
Very clever, young lady! And I love that you have a picture of your kinfolk from that era - that's very cool.
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Canon PowerShot S95
 03/16/2009 11:41:03 AM
Ahhh, now we know how to a legal overlay, this is extremely well done..
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Sigma DP1x
03/15/2009 06:13:03 PM
Fabulous although I'm sure your methods were called into question. Glad it wasn't DQed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D610
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 03/14/2009 03:08:19 PM
The subject brings interesting questions.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 03/14/2009 04:02:15 AM
Sorry, I don't get the title of your photo.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 03/13/2009 11:50:38 PM
I wonder what it is about old photos of people that makes you want to know their stories. Very nostalgic.
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