The fairy picture is one of the ones reported by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle around 1921. They are paper cutouts on sticks. (The book they're from has even been identified.) Poor Conan Doyle and several other reputable people were completely taken in--largely because they really really wanted it to be true.
MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Ron Carnegie <r.carne...@verizon.net> wrote: > My understanding is that this image was done with paper figures on > sticks. They are rather famous. Double images can certainly be made with > wetplate or dryplate photography and I have seen some "ghost "images that > were done that way. A double exposure will usually leave a ghostly image > though, that is somewhat transparent. > > > "I'm your huckleberry" > > Ron Carnegie > r.carne...@verizon.net > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of otsisto > Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:11 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is this real or not? > > Double exposure. though the second exposure does not appear real solid. > not sure if this is a good example, might be figs on a stick. > http://tinyurl.com/2o6b8r > > -----Original Message----- > Does anybody know if photographers back > then could superimpose such things? > > Anne > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
