Gandolfi and Mike: thank you so much!
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Gandolfi and Mike: thank you so much!
a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype
Karl Blossfeldt for plants and flowers, hands down.
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...
4x5" clear glass ambrotype.
well...it used to be a flower. This is a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype of a poppy head.
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...
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...
getting started with wet plate... a 4x5" clear glass ambrotype
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. ...
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.
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
oh, Alan, those are both lovely (and I particularly like the first. Huge, intimate warmth to it.)
In the UK, Silverprint stocks Foma 200 4x5 and 8x10 sheets.
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.
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...
a pinhole self portrait
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...
couple of new ones from this weekend, one of snarl, and one of myself.
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.
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...
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...
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).
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.
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,...
Domenico, that's gorgeous!
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...
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
this is my friend Rich, who was visiting for the weekend.
4x5 on fp4+
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...
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,...
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...
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.
Graeme. Yesterday afternoon, with window light, on fp4+