Those that attended last years Daguerreian society symposium may have got the chance to look in detail at Marinus Ortelee’s version of the Daguerreotype process, the Orleotype or ante-daguerreotypes as he also calls it.

Similar to Daguerre’s initial version of the process the images are printed out rather than being a mercury developed latent image. Another additional feature to the standard approach to the process is the use of a third halogen, chlorine, which Marinus has mastered to give the warm brown tones. Otherwise aspects of the process are the same – the silver plate (which he electroplates himself) being highly polished (flawless in his case) is exposed to Iodine and bromine. They are in camera originals with a long exposure time (e.g. full sunlight at F2.8 for 20 minutes). He presents them in frames with his own hand painted passe partout.