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    Re: post alternative techniques

    Gandolfi and Mike: thank you so much!
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype
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    Re: Favorite Floral/still life photographers

    Karl Blossfeldt for plants and flowers, hands down.
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    Develop all my film in the kitchen. Make contact prints in the windowless bathroom (or inside a cupboard!). Make platinum prints on the kitchen table when it's not a sunny day. Use an enlarger at a...
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    Re: Post Yer Still Lifes take 2

    4x5" clear glass ambrotype.
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    well...it used to be a flower. This is a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype of a poppy head.
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    Re: Very basic question on sheet film

    try this video: http://photondetector.com/blog/2007/10/26/how-to-load-large-format-film-video-tutorial/

    which includes a show and tell of what's in the box, as well as how to load the film into...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    thanks, Jim! Wet plate really looks like nothing else, does it?

    Here's another from the same session this weekend, again, a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype. Again, with my VERY messy developing...
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    getting started with wet plate... a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype
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    Re: Bad Van Dyke?

    My first batch was mixed too quickly, and was cloudy, with floating specks in it (not pretty) but I used it anyway, just to see what it did. It created grainy, spotty prints that behaved very oddly. ...
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    Re: Bad Van Dyke?

    Was it like that as you mixed it, or after?

    If the former, you have to add the silver nitrate very slowly to the other parts, drop by drop, or it does separate.
  12. some memories are as precious as water

    An image from some work in progress, and I start crawling up the steep learning curve of wet plate collodion, scraping my knees, blackening my fingers, and having a revolting amount of fun as I go. ...
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    Re: How to compose with a pinhole camera

    Like Walter and Joe, I use sight lines. But unlike almost everyone else, I use them the other way around (I'm contrary like that). So rather than having the point of the triangle at the front, above...
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    Re: Share some macro photos

    a glass jar full of dried roses and peonies from a long ago birthday, with dust all over the damn thing. This is about twice life size macro, using a 150mm barrel ektar on a Houghton Victo whole...
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    Re: which shortish lens for macro work on WP?

    two lenses arrived in the post...a repromaster from Pete (thanks, Pete!) and a 150mm ektar in a barrel as a birthday present from a friend. Rigged up the Ektar with a cardboard lens board (a slightly...
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    Re: which shortish lens for macro work on WP?

    thanks for the advice! It really helps to know what I should be looking out for.

    Bill: I'm a complete beginner on the wet plate side, and haven't *yet* gone solo with it after doing a workshop...
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    which shortish lens for macro work on WP?

    I need a little advice or some suggestions, please. I'm looking for a lens I can use on my lovely Victo whole plate camera, for doing close up work on wet plate.

    I've currently got an 11" Cooke...
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    Re: Modern Camera for Plate Photography

    You can use a regular camera, but will need to adapt a film holder so it can hold plates. It involves cutting a hole in the septum, and then making corners (either solid ones, or by stringing silver...
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    oh, Alan, those are both lovely (and I particularly like the first. Huge, intimate warmth to it.)
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    Re: Foma 4x5 film

    In the UK, Silverprint stocks Foma 200 4x5 and 8x10 sheets.
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    Thanks for the kind words. And yes, pinhole is probably the most restful form of photography yet invented...plenty of time during an exposure to pause.
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    another pinhole self portrait, though this has a little twist... about two minutes in to the exposure, I fell asleep (I don't remember counting past 100) and snoozed through the next seven or eight...
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    a pinhole self portrait
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    Re: Photo Management On Overland Tours

    I usually travel independently, but have twice been on an overland tour, and I'd *never* do it again and try to make photos. You get chivvied about too much. Timing is all wrong: you end up in...
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    Re: More Portraits?

    couple of new ones from this weekend, one of snarl, and one of myself.
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    Re: Amtrak or Greyhound?

    Trains over the bus, any day. You can walk around on a train. Being jammed into a Greyhound seat on long journeys loses its charm fast.
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    my beloved revolutionary sweetheart

    The Lenin comparisons outweigh the Trotsky ones on about a 3:1 ratio (with the occasional Che thrown in for good measure), and they crack me up every time. I need to buy the man a furry hat, and hang...
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    Re: More Portraits?

    Hi Domenico,
    no problem at all! I put a sheet of grade 2 RC paper in the plate holder, and exposed it for about 4 seconds at f11, then developed it in half-strength paper developer. I made a quick...
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    Snarl, at the front door

    something of an experiment... paper negative in the whole plate Houghton Victo (though, foolishly, without glass in there too so it was less than flat).
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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Don, your work is incredible. I found your site a little while ago, and visit every now and then to admire, think, and just enjoy the view.
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    Re: Why do you photograph in black and white?

    Why? Because I do. Because I love it.

    I've been thinking about this back and forth since the question was posted, and had a four paragraph long ramble with lots of reasons and details, but, no,...
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    Re: How about a New Portrait thread?

    Domenico, that's gorgeous!
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    Re: darkroom chemistry in UK

    The only way I know of avoiding those is to go to a physical shop: Calumet or Jessops or the like. Everyone else I use for chemicals (firstcall, fotospeed, or silverprint has either the 25 quid...
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    Re: Summer Photo Fun---what's on your agenda?

    Up the road to Glasgow in June to do a workshop with Kerik!

    Probably sticking around in Edinburgh otherwise, making photographs during the many festivals in August
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    Re: How about a New Portrait thread?

    this is my friend Rich, who was visiting for the weekend.
    4x5 on fp4+
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    Re: Why do you use ULF?

    audioexcels, I'm guessing that http://flickr.com/photos/jonroma/1794407306/ is a dry plate, from the look of it and the 1917 date. If you want to see some contemporary wet plate work visit...
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    Re: Question on "Wings on Desire"

    There was a documentary some years back (1990, I think) called Motion and Emotion about Wenders and his films... and, as far as I remember, it had a section about the filming of Wings of Desire,...
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    Re: Ilford ULF Order 2008 (UK)

    Ouch. I have a nasty feeling I'm going to have to stick with paper negs for a while longer then.

    I suppose the prices aren't too bad if you just scale up the surface area and add a bit on for the...
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    Re: Ilford ULF Order 2008 (UK)

    Silverprint don't have the prices yet.

    update: Ilford tells me that they are being sent the prices today. And that delivery would probably be in September.
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    Re: How about an even newer portrait thread?

    Graeme. Yesterday afternoon, with window light, on fp4+
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