The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process, invented around 1837 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface; it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger, and the finished plate has to be angled so as to reflect some dark surface in order to view the image properly.
Ooh dear ,you've got me in a flummox !!----are you telling me that this is a photograph of the real thing ?? or have you processed to stimulate the real thing !! I assume its the first suggestion !! Anyway thanks for the info
@gamelee Ah !! well I am not very up on these things - but willing to learn !! Thanks for taking the time to explain to me !! and for the history --- I have now read it at leisure & the explanation makes more sense !! Well done for such an olde photo look !
