Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[Tin Can]

2 keepers posted 2 minutes apart!

Synchronicity Vive!

[paulbarden]

Thought I would toss out one of my recent plates. 8x10" on aluminum.
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Nicely done! Excellent technique, thoughtful pose. It’s all there :-)

[paulbarden]

Skull Jar #2
Wet Plate Collodion on aluminum (tintype)
8X10 plate shot with the Deardorff and 12" Kodak Ektar lens at f16. Exposure was 45 seconds, using Old Workhorse collodion and home-made developer.

[Tav Walraven]

Another keeper, Paul. Really like the shadows on the wall.

[koraks]

Paul, that's gorgeous! Is that a photograph or a scan of the tintype?

Here's another one from me; I'm starting to learn. It really helps that I finally got my hands on some HNO3.


Scan from glass transparency; it's going to be an ambrotype later on. Image size ca. 11x9cm.

[john_vandale_]

Thought I would toss out one of my recent plates. 8x10" on aluminum.
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I love it!

[williaty]

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by Ty Williams, on Flickr

[paulbarden]

Oak Leaf Grid #1
Wet Plate Collodion image on glass (as negative).
Old Workhorse collodion used, with B&S developer diluted for negative processing. I'm not thrilled with the overall density and contrast (and the uneven development marks), so I need to practice making negatives more. Next time, I made John Coffer's negative collodion and corresponding developer.

[koraks]

Paul, the flaws you point out don't bother me at all. Had you not mentioned them, I wouldn't have noticed and just taken them as part of the image. I like it very much either way; what size is this?

Here's one of mine, from yesterday. I was also intending to make a negative and this was the first test shot to determine exposure. Came out underexposed, so I overdeveloped it, but I quite liked it as it was, so I varnished it and painted the backside black. Ca. 3.5x4.5", 2 minutes @ f/11.

[lodewijk schenk]

Another nice one. Keep posting them!