Old Fashioned Photographs
I cannot help but wonder why people did not smile in pictures a long time ago. Wasn't anyone happy back in 1892?
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I read that it took so long to set up the equipment and exposure time that the could not hold a smile that long
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That's what I've heard also cj. Those old tin types and early photos took a long time for the proper exposure so people had to stand still for a long time and didn't try to smile.
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Correct answers here. Photo studios even had rests for chins and arms to keep them still. I used to shoot ancient cameras.
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I had wondered that, too.
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Probably miserable in the clothes they wore back then, especially if it was hot there.
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I don't know about smiling, but that's the year my paternal grandmother was born. She passed away in 1976.
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My grand mother was born in 1892, too, and passed in 1980. She did all kinds of hand work, but no quilting! A good cook, as well.
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I read the same thing about the old ways of photography.
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I wondered that myself. And I wonder why they're photographed at times with weird items. It would be interesting to know the stories behind the pictures.
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