Post your Pixies! :)

[Mark Sawyer]

She's thinking about it...

She's thinking about it... by Mark Owen Sawyer

[Jim Galli]

She's thinking about it...

If she pulls that pin, I hope she's a fast flyer. Really fast.

[Mark Sawyer]

For someone so sweet and innocent, she's a fast woman...

[E. von Hoegh]

If she pulls that pin, I hope she's a fast flyer. Really fast.

She will be, one way or the other.

[Scott Schroeder]

Mark, what sized plates are these?

and where did you get a grenade? ;-)

[Mark Sawyer]

What, you don't keep grenades around your house?

This plate was 6x8 inches, but most from this series are 5x6, 4.25x6.5, or sometimes 4x8. Little plates for little pixies!

[Scott Schroeder]

Well I have that 'guy' throwing a grenade seen a few pages back ;-)
I myself been shooting 5X6 lately. Not sure why that was never a 'main' format....seems with 20X24 popular when people go huge, it would be more popular for the wee formats.
That's the beauty of wetplate....any size we want! :-)

[Mark Sawyer]

Yup, I like 5x6. There are cabinet and cdv-size plates, whole-plates, half-plates, quarter-plates, sixth-plates, not to mention Mammoth plates and Imperial plates...

5x6 is Pixie-plate!

[goamules]

I recently decided to start shooting some 5x6 wetplates too, after seeing how nice this size is at Mark's house. Not so big you can only afford to shoot a few plates a year, but big enough in hand that they look great. Last year I shot quite a few 5x7 when I wanted to go "large" (keep in mind quarterplate and smaller were the most common sizes in the early wetplate days), but something about the aspect ratio doesn't seem as nice as 5x6.

[Scott Schroeder]

Not to steal away from Mark's thread but the pixie plate size is quite nice as a plate or as a contact print. I'd say for contact printing it's as small as I'd go. 4X5 is a wee bit too tiny ;-)
I've found I like 5X6 in portrait and 5X7 in landscape, no matter the subject matter.