Scala dei morti, or the staircase of the dead… Gum bichromate.
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A whole plate collodion on aluminum image made with a Kodak 2D 8x10 and a Bill Schwab plate holder with whole plate adaptor....
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great pictures....all of them!
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Wet plate, with an old eight-inch, f/5 A. T. Thompson & Co. Petzval.
Give us a kiss. Please?
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
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Platinum/Palladium print, Bergger COT320 paper, Century Master studio camera, Seneca Whole Plate f5 portrait lens, 6.5 x 8.5 Fomapan 200 (cut down from 8x10 Fomapan).
I must admit, they look pretty reasonable. Sometimes I adjust the contrast slightly from the scans, but it's as likely to be down as it is up. I tried to do a digi-snap of the last two I posted next to an Ansel Adams book to show the true tonal scale, but couldn't get the glare off the book. But maybe you can tell something; this is un-photoshopped:
Bear in mind, these are unvarnished, and wil pick up a little more "richness" (and "dust") after varnishing.
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
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