World Wetplate Day 2013 Plates

[goamules]

Today is World Wetplate Day, when anyone who wants to shoots two plates, and posts them here: http://www.wetplateday.org/gallery-2013/

I got started pretty early, before the heat, and I see others have already uploaded some plates. Here are two of mine, out of several more, still drying at the bottom. Scans soon. Post yours!

[Joe Smigiel]

My favorite plate from the day and the first of the year:



It felt good to pour a plate again. I probably should have prepped better but it worked out OK. Used a new to me lens (300mm Symmar), new camera (5x7 Cambo SC), new background (gray felt) , studio prop (faux willow tree leaves), new developer (Mark Sawyer's Tinkerbell developer), and mixed a new quick-clear collodion (NH4Br, NH4I, LiBr, CdBr2) as an experiment for this one. FWIW, 5 seconds at f/5.6 with a bank of 16, 48" 54w aquarium lamps at about 10' and a reflector.

[Mark Sawyer]

Hey, World Wet Plate Day fell on Star Wars Day...

"May the Fourth be with you..."

[rariola77]

4x5 ambrotype
Meridian 45A
Ysarex 150mm