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goamules
30-Apr-2013, 10:21
We started World Wetplate Day back in 2009 http://www.wetplateday.org/ as a way to honor Fredrick Archer, the inventor of wetplate collodion, who's grave had gone into disrepair. 51 wetplate photographers submitted 2 plates, which were published in a book. The proceeds were used to buy a new headstone, which Quinn Jacobson and others installed in London.

This Saturday, 4 May is World Wetplate Day again. Shoot a couple plates, and enjoy the growing process!

World Wet Plate Day is a day to celebrate the work of the artists who practice it today. Wet Plate Collodion is the photographic process of pouring Collodion onto a plate of thin iron or glass, then exposing and developing that plate while it’s still wet. This process was the primary photographic method from the early 1850s until the late 1880s. It replaced paper negatives/Calotypes (Talbot) and Daguerreotypes (Louis Daguerre). The current revival of the Wet Plate process is due in large part to the ubiquity of digital photography and because of the unique Collodion “signature” and aesthetic.

cdholden
30-Apr-2013, 10:31
This Saturday will be May 4th unless Sherman broke the way back machine. :)

Mark Sawyer
30-Apr-2013, 10:53
Uh-oh, May 4th is also International Star Wars Day! ("May the fourth be with you...")

I sense a great disturbance in the collodion...

goamules
30-Apr-2013, 10:55
May, June, 2013, 2009....calendars are difficult things. That screwup ought to thin out the riffraff a little.

goamules
4-May-2013, 08:05
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