Wet Plate Image Sharing, June 2020

[paulbarden]

Lets start a thread for sharing wet plate collodion photographs.

This is from a wet plate negative made with a Kodak Box Brownie #3B. I cut 1.3mm thin glass to fit the Brownie, and when using the smallest aperture on the little pull tab behind the lens, this simple meniscus performs surprisingly well! (Honest, I made this with a Brownie 3B!)
The exposure was 6 minutes in bright open shade, and even then, the negative needed a bit of help so I redeveloped it using the Iodine redeveloper process, which added about 1.5 stops more density. It will probably make a beautiful albumen or salt print!



Want to see more detail? Here is a larger version.

[Ari]

Paul, it's a lovely photo, but what strikes me more about it is how clean your technique is.
It's also got quite a dynamic range of tones for a wet plate.
Superb start to this thread!

[Jarvman]

[Tin Can]

This is visible, thanks for posting!

[paulbarden]

Thoughtful photo, sensitive lighting. Far better than the average tintype portrait!

[Tin Can]

Paul, no image file in post or link

[paulbarden]

Paul, no image file in post or link

Are you sure? It displays correctly for me. Ari can see it too.

[Tin Can]

Yep, just got this again

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Are you sure? It displays correctly for me. Ari can see it too.

[Tin Can]

That was on Win 10

I just tried on this iPhone with latest updates

No pics Paul

I see everything else but yours

[paulbarden]

That was on Win 10

I just tried on this iPhone with latest updates

No pics Paul

I see everything else but yours

I've edited the post to remake the links. Let me know if it works now, please.