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Using the Mirror
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One of my most frequently asked questions ("Midge FAQs") is how much different are gravestones photographed with and without using the mirror.
Fred is a more expert and experienced gravestone photographer than I am. The hard part of doing this is that you must have another person holding the mirror while you take the photo.
Posted at 5:55AM, 25 April 2008 PDT
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Great question!! I had the same one! Have a mirror in the back of my car to use when needed.
Posted 2 months ago.
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What kind of mirror? Where is teh mirror held? Anyway you can demonstrate how it's done? I'm glad you brought this up because I was going to ask.
Posted 2 months ago.
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Also - how big a mirror?
Posted 2 months ago.
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The mirror should be as tall as the gravestone. This is not always possible with a big monument so to read the inscription, you may have to move it around a lot. I use a cheap, back of the bedroom door mirror from WalMart. The AGS Field Guide #7 says you can angle a hand mirror, if you are alone, to read an inscription but of course you can't photograph at the same time!
Next time I have extra people (living ones) with me, I will take a photo or even better a video of the process. I just bought a Flip camcorder.
Sharon Carmack's book, "Your Guide to Cemetery Research" is excellent for learning such things.
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Nice - Midge, you're my hero.
I'm also posting the one you e-mailed to me earlier - it could be possible to also achieve the same effect using cardboard covered with aluminum foil for reflectivity.... possibly cheaper and easier to carry too!
I'm looking forward to attempting this in the next few weeks.
~Rose
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None of these ideas presented here are new...they have been around since people took photos of gravestones before digital cameras. Sharon DeBartolo Carmack's book is a must read as well as the materials from the Association of Gravestone Studies plus their Web site are essential for learning this stuff.
www.gravestonestudies.org/
My personal project does come from my artsy mother who took photos of the stones of the people she knew (her parents, grandparents and great grandparents) and gave them to me with some directions on how to get there. I still have them in my gravestone files.
I am trying to record as many gravestones as I can in my direct line back. As a New Englander, this is not as hard as it sounds.
My immigrant grandparents were stone cutters from Scotland. Therefore the name of my blog "granite in my blood."
granite-in-my-blood.blogspot.com/
Midge
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