Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[Tav Walraven]

Great shots, Alex. Really like the depth on the bottom one.

[Marc_Andrew]

[Chris7521]

Great portrait of a gorgeous woman.

[cplkao]

Testing out a portrait idea.

[AlexGard]

Todays plate
8x10 black glass ambrotype
120mm
F45
16 seconds

15 seconds developmeny





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[Tav Walraven]

Alex.......

Brings back memories of Clyde Butcher in Florida knee deep in the Everglades......nice shot.

[stawastawa]

very nice ambrotype and cool to see the making of.

I love the big wide tree and that whole forest of trees is very interesting. nice sense of depth as the horizon fades away across the smooth lake.

[AlexGard]

thanks guys. just coming back on my computer and didnt realise how bad the resolution is on those phone photos

I will post the scans later on whenever I get around to doing that.

The sharpness of these modern lenses keeps amazing me. I have one vintage old petzval that I am hanging onto in the hope I will use it one day but for these landscapes these modern lenses are an absolute winner. The detail in the tree bark is phenomenal.

[Bill L.]

Alex,

Lovely work! I'm impressed that you managed to keep the sky under control on wet-plate. Have you seen Lisa Elmaleh's wet-plate work of the everglades? This reminds me of her work.

But I do have to say that in looking of the photo of you at work, the only thing I could think of was that this brings a whole new meaning to "wet plate" photography


Cheers!
Bill

[Corran]

Lisa Elmaleh's wet-plate work of the everglades

Thanks for posting Bill. Never heard of her, so looked her up. Very nice stuff and really interesting use of the medium. A friend of mine is working on landscape work with wp and going for "perfect" pours and technique. Her work shows the beauty possible in imperfections, something I myself have trouble visualizing.