Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[hoffy]

Sure most of you have probably already seen this one from last shoot.

Attachment 143357

8x10, 14" Darlot

Just beautiful

[cbk]

hand colored black glass ambrotype

[AlexGard]

I made this plate the yesterday of Jerzy, the First Engineer on board the icebreaker the RSV Aurora Australis. Doing wet plate on board here has been really challenging battling the extremely cold and dry Antarctic air (can't have plates outside any longer than a couple of minutes)

This is the best plate I have done yet down here but still quite far from any result I'd be happy with. I don't have access to a scanner I am sorry.



Merry Christmas to all

[guyatou]

Great image, Alex. Will look forward to seeing the rest of the series. You're very brave to shoot plates under such extreme conditions!

[RSalles]

Thanks Alex, looking forward to see more work from you, Happy New Year!

Cheers,

Renato

[AlexGard]

Thanks guys. I'm getting curious about these hand coloured ambrotypes... are they hard to do? I'd like to look into trying that at some stage... any reading material I can look at on the topic?

[Ray Heath]

A beautiful image Alex.

"... hard to do?", what would that matter to you.

[Pete Oakley]

CBK, that's fantastic!
Pete.

[cbk]

sorry for late answers, lots of posts have been written and I did not notice there were some questions

Absolutely wonderful!
May you say two words about the technique of colorizing ?

thanks,
it's a paint put on glass with brush

Thanks guys. I'm getting curious about these hand coloured ambrotypes... are they hard to do? I'd like to look into trying that at some stage... any reading material I can look at on the topic?

the paint I use are a little too agressive and can melt the varnish if too concentrated. So I thin it a little.

[AlexGard]

Ok. Thanks. That was my next question... you paint over the varnish obviously? What paints do you use? I'd love to at least give this a shot but my nerves are bunk and hands are terribly shaky so probably futile