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We have two plateholders in use. One is indeed very dirty. We did not use that one for any of the images in my example. We did clean the other in between plates. At the same time: The images with the...

Good evening all,

I should have included some examples, that would have been the wise thing to do. However, after struggeling to understand why I had such a hard time getting the exposure right,...

Hello wet-plate friends,

I'd would like to update you on some of the progress I've made (thanks in part to your excellent feedback) and I hope you guys can help me with my last (but possibly most...

Hi all,

Another day, another issue ;)

I've learned a lot, which is good:

- I was rinsing to hard, this caused damage to the collodion
- Less developer means a more 'even' image
- The...

Hello fellow wet-plate lovers,

After two weekends of pouring, soaking, exposing, developing, fixing, cursing and yelling I am now getting my first workable images! I was still wondering about a...

Good morning all,

I have experimented with my safe-light and it doesn't seem to influence the images. So that is a relief. I think I was overexposing my images. This causes everything to act as a...

Thanks for the extra info Two23, and thanks for the nuance PaulBarden, don't worry, I think any honest given advice is useful. It is up to me to do my research on any risks concerning certain steps....

Hello PaulBarden,

Thank you for your reply! You where (for what I described as problem) spot-on! Since I couldn't find any conclusive documentation for the developer I am using, I interpreted...

Hey guys and girls, I was wondering if you people could help me troubleshoot an issue with my first ever collodion plates.

The main problem is a fogginess or veil over the images (the images...