Wet plate collodion video

[William Whitaker]

Nice, Kerik. That was fun!

[Kerik Kouklis]

Cool. What's the thing you're using to hold the plate when you coat it with collodion? Is it a small dent puller?

No, the small dent pullers I tried didn't work well because the rubber is pretty stiff and the plates popped off too easy. This thing is made to stick on your shower wall and hang a razor or wash cloth or whatever. The suction cup is silicon instead of rubber, I think. I've been holding my plates for pouring this way for years and it works great.

[Kerik Kouklis]

Great video, Kerik...and Gayle's piece and her guitar playing is awesome. I was blown away when I saw that she did the music.

Thanks, Paul! Coming from you, the comments on Gayle's guitar work and composition are high praise indeed! I told her what you said and it made her very happy.

[keeds]

Brilliant... ;-)

[goamules]

I really like the stop-motion section at the camera. Excellent multimedia work about our classic process.

[Ron McElroy]

Great to see a creative family work together on a project.
Perhaps someday I can see wet plate done in person.

[MMELVIS]

That looked like it was fun to make, thanks for sharing

[Tony Karnezis]

+1 on what everyone said, including Gayle's guitar work.

Must get a wet plate holder and get started!