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$75 for One-Hour On-Location Photo Shoot with CD of Edited Images from Katie Garcia Photography ($200 Value)

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What an amazing experience! Great with both kids, very patient with everything. The shots came out beautiful. Your crazy if you don't buy all the pictures!

Professional photographer snaps up to six family members with up to two outfit changes, rendering a CD of edited images with copyright

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$75 for an on-location family or couple photo-shoot package (a $200 total value)

  • One CD with complete set of edited images (a $50 value)
  • One-hour photo shoot (a $150 value)<p>

Photography is a modern marvel whose roots stretch back nearly 200 years. Check out our guide to the world’s first exposure to photography—the daguerreotype.

Early Photography: Portraits of Invisible People

Before JPEGs, before flimsy Polaroids, before even black-and-white prints on cardboard stock, the earliest practical photography method—called the daguerreotype, after its inventor, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre—could only capture images on a heavy metal plate. To take a picture, the photographer first had to coat a copper plate in silver, then cover it again with a vapor of bromide or halide. As the two chemicals combined, they formed photosensitive crystals on the surface, and the plate was placed into a camera and exposed to the subject. Doing so imprinted a latent image, invisible to the naked eye. To make it materialize, a treatment of mercury vapor washed the bromide or halide from the portions of the plate that received the most light, leaving only silver particles in the image’s highlights. Likewise, a dip into a fixer dissolved the silver from the less-exposed areas, and the resulting highlights and shadows formed a clear image of a family or a fruit bowl with a top hat.

One day in 1838, Daguerre tested his invention by pointing his camera over a busy Parisian boulevard. The result was a crisp, richly detailed portrait of city life, with only one thing missing: life. Since daguerreotypes required exposure times of 10–15 minutes, the camera never captured the people and wealthy horses that bustled along the street, making the City of Lights look more like a ghost town. One man, however, did stand still long enough to appear. He was getting his shoe shined, and his bent knee shows up clearly among the shadows of trees behind him. Doubtless the polish on the man’s shoes quickly scuffed and faded, but the polished silver plate endures as the earliest known photographic image of a person.

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Promotional value expires 90 days after purchase. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as gift. Limit 1 per visit. Appointment required. 24-hr cancellation notice required. Valid only within 20 miles of 27610. Up to 6 family members per shoot. Up to two outfit changes. New clients only. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services. Learn about Strike-Through Pricing and Savings

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Sean
4 ratings|4 reviews
What an amazing experience! Great with both kids, very patient with everything. The shots came out beautiful. Your crazy if you don't buy all the pictures!
jaclyn
8 ratings|4 reviews
Katie was a pleasure to work with. She took great shots of my son, with great angles and was very positive and kind. All our pictures turned out well. Thanks hun.
Anu
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102 ratings|11 reviews
Katie did a phenomenal job of making my daughter feel comfortable in a location of her choice for her senior pictures! Her shots were fantastic and even the full digital library was an incredible price!
Khyati
1 rating|1 review
Loved the experience and the pictures were extra special...captured the love in the family!!! Amazing job Katie!!!
Meredith
1 rating|1 review
Seriously some of the best photos we've had done. My 1 year old was a wild child, but Katie was helpful and patient and we ended up with beautiful family photos! We will be getting more pictures done with her in the future!
Kavita
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48 ratings|10 reviews
Katie is awesome, very friendly great with kids. Definitely recommend her and will refer her to all my friends. Thanks Katie

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