Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[AlexGard]

8x10 BGA
32 secs exp @ f/5.6, 13 sec development

very old etherless Old Reliable collodion. Collodion is over a year old.


Edit: Here's the scans from the plates I did a couple of months ago


8x10 black glass ambrotypes by Alex Gard, on Flickr

[koraks]

Wonderful, Alex! It's always a pleasure to open one of these threads and see you've posted images.

[John Fink Jr.]

Wonderful work Alex. Love that middle plate of the three.

[jp]

Time to go from admiring to doing.
Just getting started in this slippery slope.
Fresh from weekend introduction/training at Maine Media on ambrotype and tintype.. This is an aluminum "tintype" scanned on my epson. Nothing award winning, but just figuring out the process and how different lighting and materials render. I'm still a bit high from the Archer's Envy shellac.


img657 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[jp]

And an ambrotype. Glass and metal look good in this medium.


img655 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[Scott Schroeder]

Welcome Jason. It's a lot of fun. Yes glass and metal can have a really nice shine to them.

[lxgrd]

Looking pretty bloody good for your first plates Jason. Super clean!

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[jp]

Thanks! Here's my screw up plate... I didn't get it coated to the edge of the glass and it peeled up in the lower left corner when it dried. For the glass, we coated egg whites around the edge, Brenton Hamilton and his helper had prepared the chemistry nicely so we could focus on the hands on aspects like cleaning, coating, developing, varnishing, etc.. I'm now accumulating the accessories and chemicals needed to do this on my own.


img656 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[goamules]

My test plate for our Wetplate Workshop yesterday, shot 10 min before the students arrived. Seemed a pretty good guess at 8 seconds....but then we chased the right exposure for a couple hours as the sun rose and the trees above us cast difficult shadows. But it was a great workshop.

[rariola77]

whole plate