Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[Roger Cole]

I had to rebuild my darkroom to make it easier to fold and totally lightproof
I bought a van too, so now I have no excuse if I don't shoot landscape and old stuffs around
Bridge is "Pont Julien" in Southern France, near l'Isle sur la Sorgue

Beautiful, looks like it could have been shot in the 19th century.

[Jim Galli]

beautiful, looks like it could have been shot in the 19th century.

x2!

[nede]

Thank you Roger, thank you Jim! Some location here are very lovely (Luberon, France)
still have to work on the cleanliness during hot weather

[Tim Meisburger]

Sri in her garden. I'm getting a little better at pouring, but still need practice. This is half plate, shot with a Universal Heliar at full sharp. F/8 at 8 seconds.

[goamules]

Good plate Tim, the exposure looks good. Foliage is often hard to get to expose right. Also, all the green light around it, under it, can sometimes make there be less light than you think, in wetplate.

[Tim Meisburger]

Thanks Garrett. This is acrylic. I've been shooting glass and acrylic about half and half, and I really like the ambrotypes, but am lazy to cut and clean the glass. With the plastic I often have relatively featureless shadows.

[cuypers1807]

Getting some serious contrast from some older collodion.
8x10 tintype from 4x5 Provia Postive:

[nede]

"melancholia and other mindfuck"
deep shadows under some big tree and cloudy day...
13x18cm ambrotype

[AlexGard]

A post and something a little bit serendipitous...

I went out with a friend yesterday who took me to this place to make this 8x10 plate. He showed me the tree and posed in the photo. (sorry it's just an iphone image of the plate and not very clear)



I got home and posted it on a WPC facebook group and one of the guys there then replied with this image by Alexander Gardener (how similar is his name to mine?!) made in 1862 entitled "A Lonely Grave"



Strange coincidence!



Also the other day I went out and tried to do an 8x10 triptych of a zinc factory near here. I wasn't happy with it, I wish I'd used a longer lens and I had some development/technique problems. Waiting for a good weather window to go out and try this again. I figured out how to make the horizon straight/level through all the plates which was something that always baffled me whenever I saw those old 3-or-more image panoramas with a flat, level horizon without the fisheyed 'warping'. Look forward to doing this properly soon. Spring always has such moody weather :P

[StoneNYC]

"melancholia and other mindfuck"
deep shadows under some big tree and cloudy day...
13x18cm ambrotype

Stunning