My first Daguerreotype / New to the Forum

[cdjubek]

I just want to say hello to all! I have used this website and forum extensively as an outside eye to help me to this point.. well finally i am here to participate a bit. I just finished my first becquerel dag and am pleased and humbled at the amount of work i have done and need to improve. I have a link to a journal and i hope to keep up to date with a little more technical info at: http://www.primalphotographic.com/daguerreotype-journal.html Any input is greatly appreciated. I look forward to the future of being part of cdags.com.. Thank you, Chad

 

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[Andy Stockton]

Congratulations Chad. The first one is a great feeling. Great new section of your website, I look forward to hearing from you as next steps unfold.

[newone2010]

How do you digitizing dags? Scan or take photos? You dags looks so nice at screen.Thanks

[cdjubek]

Newone,

I use a very inexpensive scanner, Epson Perfection 3590 Photo Scanner. I bought it several years ago for 99.00 US. All my dags are mounted under glass as soon as I finish gilding, I use cheap glass so there are alot of scratches and imperfections that get picked up in the scan. I do photoshop those spots as best I can but keep the real imperfections and contrast as close as possible in the digitized image. You just have to find a scanner that scans at an angle to reduce the reflection.

PS – I really have enjoyed watching your progress on the forum!

[newone2010]

OH,I see. I didn’t use PS to remove the dust and scratches of my cheap glass before.I just want to show how my dags looks like,but I found the images after scanning are really much more bad than the dags really were.

I don’t have a scaner.I just sent them to a small shop of printing photos in the town.They has a Epson scaner but I didn’t know which size it was.They used normal scan software and get bad results.

I will PS the images,and let them close to how the dags look like.See you soon.

[greg7mdp]

It is much easier to scan the plate before it is sealed behind glass. You can just put the bare plate on the glass (it won’t damage the image), or use a small spacer to leave a little air space between the plate and the scanner glass to avoid Newton rings.

greg

[cdjubek]

I have always been so careful to quickly get the plate under glass over fear of damaging or adding particals of dust. I will give it a try, I often wondered how some of the dags on here were scanned, as I can see the pilot holes for electoplating and assumed it was just very clean glass. Chad

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