Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[Willie]

https://petapixel.com/2018/01/11/bui...io-us-century/

Might check out a new Wet Plate studio.

[Willie]

Bravo!

Neil

Where is the original post showing this image?

Can't get the image to show. It is one by gphoto and shows the subject holding the 16x20 glass plate portrait of herself.

Have done a search in this topic and can't get the original post to show.

[Peter Mounier]

It's post 1716 in this thread, and several posts of it in subsequent replies.

[paulbarden]

https://petapixel.com/2018/01/11/bui...io-us-century/

Might check out a new Wet Plate studio.

I wonder what he did for a living before building his studio? Clearly he had a small fortune at his disposal to build a dedicated studio like that. Must be nice.

[erian]

Attachment 172901
16x20 ambrotype
500mm f/4.5 Goerz Dogmar
DIY 16x20 camera
gilesclement.com

I have been amazed by your images and story.

I have one question. How much did you pay for the lens at time if this is not a secret. I looks to me that lens like this is today very expensive and I am wondering if this has been always been the case. I would just like to understand the perspective.

[scheinfluger_77]

I wonder what he did for a living before building his studio? Clearly he had a small fortune at his disposal to build a dedicated studio like that. Must be nice.

Can’t argue with his work.

[cplkao]

Recently move up from 4x5 to 5x7 for a still life project.

Sentiment 001

Blue LED for about 1min/Kodak Aero Ektar at F4

[marsan]

I started last summer with the collodion process. So much learned already and still I feel like I haven't learned much. This is one of the better plates. I struggled very much with high temperatures (40°C)



4x5 collodion positive, lens Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f4.8, old workhorse

[goamules]

Can’t argue with his work.

I think some could argue with the title of his article, "I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the US in Over a Century"

There are a lot of studios being built, improvised, re-purposed. Kodak was still making wetplate chemicals and instruction manuals in the 1930s. I'd bet astronomers were still doing wetplates in the 1950s. Quinn Jacobson and some others have built some big studios in the past 15 years. http://studioq.com/blog/tag/denver-arts-week



The web generation loves to post bragging rights about who makes the biggest plate, the oldest lens, the biggest camera, the most gas masks in a photograph.

[paulbarden]

I think some could argue with the title of his article, "I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the US in Over a Century"
The web generation loves to post bragging rights about who makes the biggest plate, the oldest lens, the biggest camera, the most gas masks in a photograph.

That was my impression also: far too much braggadocio.