Should there be a Wet Plate subforum?

[Tin Can]

Sub topic thread "Collodion - Wet Plate Images"

Do you want an image thread clogged with ???

This thread already exists: https://www.largeformatphotography.i...t-Plate-Images

[Tin Can]

I do follow Topshit, good videos

My favorite guy to watch is the Topshit guy. Knowlegeable AND entertaining! I really like this guy. He's done some nice informative blogs in the past although lately he's kind of gone off rails and is running around naked in the woods. Still fun to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPIe4b3gYVo&t=23s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POEPy88XQGg&t=156s


Kent in SD

[Tin Can]

Yes, Alt Prints fall right into this query

Seems to me that if its intended to be a lasting repository of technical information, it shouldn't be a single thread, but a distinct section of the forum. But this would be a bit of an anomaly, as the form doesn't currently include sections specific to particular techniques. (IE: there is no specific forum for Cyanotypes, for example)
I think it would serve us well to have a separate forum here called Alternative Processes, which would include Wet Plate, Albumen Printing, Platinum/Palladium etc. None of these alt processes fits easily into any of the current sub forums.

[Tin Can]

Yes, both

Do you intend for this thread be devoted to the exploration of wet plate as a novice would experience it?
A place to share newbie discoveries and mistakes?
Or a repository of wet plate information for all levels of practitioners?

[Ari]

Wet plate, like large format photography, can be as DIY as one chooses.
I think something like this would be better served by having its own sub-forum, much like ULF and Digital Processing already have.

[paulbarden]

Wet plate, like large format photography, can be as DIY as one chooses.
I think something like this would be better served by having its own sub-forum, much like ULF and Digital Processing already have.

Agreed. There is FAR too much information to be shared about the process than can be comfortably fit into a single thread.

[Ari]

Since Paul and I agree, it's a done deal!
And Oren would be too busy modding the new sub-forum to notice all the gratuitous bumps we're giving our FS ads. Win-win!

Joking aside, I think there's momentum here for a wet plate sub-forum.
What's more, with other WP fora shutting down or becoming read-only, having a "living" wet plate forum would be of great benefit to quite a few here, and would likely attract new members.
There's a wealth of knowledge and experience to be shared between LF users and wet plate practitioners, and plenty of overlap in the two disciplines.

[Tin Can]

Yes, perhaps 'Hysterical Processes'

Wet plate, like large format photography, can be as DIY as one chooses.
I think something like this would be better served by having its own sub-forum, much like ULF and Digital Processing already have.

[Two23]

Since Paul and I agree, it's a done deal!
And Oren would be too busy modding the new sub-forum to notice all the gratuitous bumps we're giving our FS ads. Win-win!

Joking aside, I think there's momentum here for a wet plate sub-forum.
What's more, with other WP fora shutting down or becoming read-only, having a "living" wet plate forum would be of great benefit to quite a few here, and would likely attract new members.
There's a wealth of knowledge and experience to be shared between LF users and wet plate practitioners, and plenty of overlap in the two disciplines.

Exactly my thinking. Wet plate is clearly on the increase. The two FB groups have about 10,000 members between them.



Kent in SD

[Oren Grad]

I've moved the thread to "Feedback" and renamed it. Further thoughts are welcome.