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Wow I figured this thread was long gone years ago. The ole girl hasn't shot a picture in a while but she got a good workout for several years. It seems these days everyones doing wet plate or...

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I never had this problem again when I switched to Mac about 5 years ago, with my old PC it was always a crap shoot no matter screen/printer/monitor

I like the hat top and bottom much more

LED Coleman CT-50.....sunlight in your hands no doubt, the wife bought a pair on clearance for $20, as soon as I test this out on portraits and a nude and it works, no more dragging around lighting...

Playing around with using a flashlight as light source, 8 second on camera/other stuff moving flashlight from rear to front at 4 seconds and on orchid 10 seconds randomly lighting everything for 1...

I apologize for the quality of the stills but I was playing around using a Coleman Ct50 flashlight as my only source of lighting so I grabbed some objects with about every type of sheen and color I...

Keep finding plates laying around behind stuff considered failures I'm guessing.........and yes she is actually in the military and she brought the prop

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Perfect, I'm going to track down the fluke in the same manner and see if the number of drops of iodine effect my flukes more often because the flukes were very nice

Ok I wasn't, exactly perfect by one drop when originally describing the process the first time. The first plate was the pair of them/full sun, 2 drops Iodine in original 65 ml....this plate is the...

I just threw these up against the wall and snapped a picture, one has more iodine in less collodion and these were the fourth/fifth plates of a 65ml mix so by the fifth pour it had 4 extra drops in...

Yep thats my understanding to, you're basically trying to shoot for the contrast of month old collodion, now using B&S Workhorse the directions state 3-4 drop per 100 ml and I add 2 to my 65ml but...

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actually Im getting ready to try something right this minute that might help me to like sun

sort of both, the one of the women on the bike is accurate, in total shade and one extra drop of iodine, the one next too her was also accurate, full sun and a 15 degrees warmer , 1 drop less iodine....

All I know is, I hate sun mixed with wet plate......got my first taste of having no option but to shoot in it and 1 second is too much

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;) yep! It's funny how many people have asked what song/artist it is, I thought everyone knew ole Rob and his antics. I've heard the same thing, listen to classical all day but still wanted to know...

Heh.....well I am part of a couple of wet plate groups ( Collodion Bastards : Wet Plate of Questionable Parentage come to mind) / as well as have friends that enjoy the finer things in life like a...

Nice, the wife will be very happy she doesn't have to work as hard!

But Im always up for glass cleaning techniques since thats the most terrible part of wet plate, I just use glass cleaner to get off the heavy garbage then the old annoying Calcium Carbonate and...

I definitely never subbed my first 20-30 plates and lost a couple so I tried egg whites but that was too much work for too little success until Dana @ B&S recommended Silane and reason being the...

Here ya go SergiR...... to go along with the other zillion wet plate videos, this is how you do it when you just don't care much and need to take 6-8 in less than 2 hours. shot this for some friends...

The actual collodion pour made me nerous at first but the old workhorse stuff is so nice I don't even really think about that, it's the developing/ and then fixing that always seems like opening...

Theres also Facebook groups that will provide some instant help here and there, pretty good times in some of them like the collodion bastards one

Heh, after 20 or so plates all that disappears, maybe closer to 3-4 in a row unless you're doing nudes then there's other elements involved with shaky developing ;)

No but I have a weird antique glass thats about twice as big as a shot glass and its about half full and when I pour that on the plate, the plate is completely saturated in like 1 second and has a...

Also I noticed that the old workhorse collodion doesn't need much drying time before the bath, this may be your issue. I pour the plate in about 5-10 seconds and am waving it back and fourth while I...

I drown my plate in developer and usually start to get nervous as you do after about 10 seconds but be patient and wait 30 or more seconds until you see like 6-7 shades come in

Actually the best I think I have ever had was these 2, the plates just pop like crazy even in a semi dark room. They were on a sunny day but in complete shade, Oh, and people want a bad pour job with...

Also check for light leaks in your camera, bellows, and plate holder

When I do developer these days I dump about a shot glass full on the opposite side from my hand and down that side fast as I swirl the plate like I'm doing a collodion pour at 10x the speed, I then...

They did turn out pretty decent for the wind blowing the guy enough for blur and the bad job I did scanning/exporting as a JPEG in photoshop CC, Im still trying to learn it a little better but his...

I shoot a wide open Voightlander , just electrical tape over the f.stop
Its a .5 so not sure how that translates to F-stop but I think someone determined 4.5 at one time, I have no idea

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I shot these just 2 days ago and it was overcast but the sun was popping out during exposure so it was tough but the longest was 2 seconds
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Also, if you're shooting outside I have found if you are in shade or out of shade but extremely overcast I expose for 3 seconds, I try not to shoot in direct sun but I would say anything over 1...

I do a 25 ml collodial and 40 ml of Bromo and add two drops if the iodine, this will do probably 15 plates ( 8x10)maybe more or less by a couple