Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[rocha26]

Your pictures are beautiful. Ive been wanting to start doing tintypes, can you tell me where you buy your collodion supplies from? thanks you

[Taija71A]

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@rocha26...

Many of the folks on the forum... Purchase their Wet Plate Collodion Supplies from Bostick & Sullivan. There of course are other alternative sources.

http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/cart/home.php?cat=323

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Best regards,

-Tim.
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[nede]

Emma
(test plate for a French roller derby team's calendar )

[alex from holland]

Awesome portrait Geoffrey
Good use of the light

Yesterday's effort with the wonderful Madalaine:

Attachment 103870

5x7 CGA
Poe Boy collodion
Hypo fix
Black Art camera w/ 300mm Zeiss f/4.5
5 seconds, outdoor shade
Curves adjusted slightly in PS

[GeoffreyO]

Thanks Alex,
It was a great day for shooting. Clear blue sky, lots of UV about. You can see Madalaine squinting slightly due to the brightness of the light all around. Love it when a shoot goes as planned

Awesome portrait Geoffrey
Good use of the light

[John Fink Jr.]

This is a wet plate collodion experiment.
So two exposures on the same plate.
It needs very accurate measuring but I am happy with the result.

26,5 x 26,5 cm tintype
Dallmeyer 3a wide open (f4)
exposure times 2 x 3 seconds

Excellent!

[Roger Cole]

No. If it were a shorter focal length that means one would have to move in even closer to the subject to fill the frame.

Depth of field at a given f stop is dependent on image scale, NOT focal length. Adjust the camera to subject distance for the same scale and DOF at the same focal ratio will be identical.


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[John Fink Jr.]

Collodion Wet Plate is a unique process. This whole new level of photography based on silver and light, eye hands coordination, creating very unique images input . This threat is dedicated for this process and I hope you will share your images. Here's are some of mine I have made a few weeks ago.


Silver Sheen Leaves
5x7 Collodion on Aluminum


Fountain and succulent
5x7 Ambrotype


Randy
5x7 Collodion on Aluminum

Tri, nice work as always.

[Tri Tran]

Thanks John, These are old now . I'm working on the next color Ambrotype plate like Copal Blue and Emerald Green. Will post soon if it turns out well . Seeing if I can accomplish my "Tri-Color" Ambrotype series

[davehyams]

i love that emerald glass Tri, great stuff. There is a dark blue called Navy that is awesome too. Can't wait to see your work.