Hey Sergei, looks like you are coming right along. I found the B&S ol workhorse a bit thin mixing it like they suggest. According to the sheet they recommend 50ml colldion to 80ml iodizer. I'd probably bump the collodion up a bit to thicken it.
The amount of pour is something you get use to and will work it's self out.
I like developing 'in hand' because it gives you cleaner plates as opposed to using a helper tray.
It really doesn't take much. Just try to make a wave go 'quickly' across the plate and then keep it on the plate. Easier said than done but I always err on the side of using a bit more because islands are one of the 'effects' that I don't particularly like....
If you want to learn the insides of it, there are some great modern books but plenty of free stuff on google books, see below. I'm a big fan of Waldack and Lea. Towler is very well known for his book as well.
Charles Long - Practical Photography
Hardwich,Peobody -A manual of photographic chemistry, including the practice of the collodion process
Hennah - Photographic manipulation, The Collodion process
Gamble - An Introduction to the Practice of Wet Collodion Photography
Lea, manual of photography
Sutton - A treatise on the positive collodion process
Wilson - A practical guide to the collodion process in photography
Hunt -The collodion process simplified
Kodak -Collodion and the making of wet plate negatives for photo-engraving work, a handbook of information concerning the production of wet plate negatives by simple and sure methods
Towler - The Silver Sunbeam, A Practical and Theoretical Text-book on Sun Drawing and Photographic Printing
Waldack,Neff - Treatise of photography on collodion
Sutton - Photographic Notes
Routledge - The photographic annual - 1908 - Wet Collodion Section
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