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Notice how hardly anyone is smiling at that thing named a camera obscura.
by spacefight 12y ago
Notice how hardly anyone is smiling at that thing named a camera obscura.
- vladnyc 12y agoI think its because they had to sit still for a long time while the photograph is taken.
- dasil003 12y agoI think it's because it's not natural to smile at a machine. Someone had to first notice that pictures would look better if people smiled, and then start telling everyone to smile until eventually the act of posing for a photograph entered the cultural consciousness.
- moioci 12y agoJudging from the blurred children, the exposure times were probably on the order of a few seconds. Even if you wanted to, it's hard to hold a smile that long.
- danabramov 12y agohttp://www.retronaut.com/2010/06/victorians-smiling-1800s/ http://www.retronaut.com/2010/06/victorians-smiling-1800s/
- ominous_prime 12y agoThese were not taken with any form of "camera obscura".