I've at least figured out exposure times in my shaded backyard, so that's good. Had another success today. I also figured out how to prevent that white hazing. Next up is improving my varnish...
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I've at least figured out exposure times in my shaded backyard, so that's good. Had another success today. I also figured out how to prevent that white hazing. Next up is improving my varnish...
I might be able to get at least a couple exposure times on the tiny plate. Hard to gauge where my dark slide is on it. You're right, though, I come from shooting only film so my expectations of...
Excellent advice! I'll try that in the next shot. My light meter may not drop down to 1 ISO but I found that my phone app does and it seems fairly close to the exposures I shot today, so that's very...
Thank you! I don't have any large format cameras yet so I decided to work with what I've got and I love my Hasselblad! Just glue 2 little strips of plastic in a polaroid back and use a sponge to...
Thank you everyone for the help!
Any tips on cutting down on all the cloudiness and white hazy swirls? I assume that's just getting better with my collodion pour and development pour?
Wow, it really was about exposure time. This shot was in shaded sunlight at f4 just a bit over 15 seconds.
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Been shooting only at f8. I'll try an exposure over 10 seconds and see what happens!
It's a Hasselblad 500c/m...or was that a joke?
I'm thinking I need to re-evaluate my darkroom situation, maybe? I've seen plenty of folks use cheap red LED strips in darkrooms and I've used them as well, but this is my first time with wet plate...
Howdy folks! I'm new to the whole wet plate process but not to photography by any means. I've attempted the wet plate collodion process about 8 times with zero success. Can y'all help identify the...