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It's very difficult to hold a smile very, very precisely. Any movement would've meant the colors would smudge. Not necessarily the reason why they're not smil
by daeken 14y ago
It's very difficult to hold a smile very, very precisely. Any movement would've meant the colors would smudge. Not necessarily the reason why they're not smiling, but it's a possibility, I believe.
- mgkimsal 14y agoAgreed, but holding any pose is a challenge - kids sitting on the hill - they'd fidget and move. The water moves. The sun moves if you wait long enough. I wonder how many 'bad' photos there are from the early days of photos where people tried smiling and they had smudged faces.
- emiliobumachar 14y agoI see a ghost in the smallest kid apart from the others in the hill. Changed positions between filters.
- bradddd 14y agoThat's exactly it. The exposures were much longer then than now. It's also the same reason the bodies of water have the rainbow effect on their surfaces.
- dredmorbius 14y agoThat chromatic effect is specifically the result of different intensities of light tracing different paths across a highly variable reflective surface (water) to the slightly different locations of each of the three separately filtered lenses of Prokudin-Gorskii's apparatus. It's an effect of space, not time.