An interesting news story gleaned from the internet within hours of being published lead us to tracking down our latest artist Gallery. Tyler Suppha-Atthasitt is a lab tech and an adjunct professor of photography at Weber State University in Utah. New to the process and working out the exposure by theory he accomplished a self portrait that most would have given up on, but with true Daguerreian perseverance he succeeded. When he told me of the exposure I wrote back saying you meant 24 seconds right?:

“I indeed meant 24 minutes. It was shot with a 150mm only a few feet away. I was using sunlight through a sliding glass door and lying on the ground as to minimize head movement. I have generally been determining my exposures around a base time of 45 sec @ f/5.6 to get an EV of 14 to reproduce as a mid tone. From there, I count stops, zone technique, to figure compensating exposures. This was the only way I could make sense of it. In the end it wasn’t composed how I would prefer, but it’s tough to figure it out when working the camera yourself. 24 minutes, it was quite meditative”

Daguerreotypes from Tyler can be seen on his page in the galleries section. The full news story can be seen at: www.standard.net