wet-plate collodion process on PDN blog

[darr]

Just thought this may be of interest to the photographers that like the collodion process:

http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2011/06/9916

Kind regards,
Darr

[MMELVIS]

Great link, I am always amazed that this process can be done in the field.

[Frank Petronio]

I'm always amazed they pick a lousy example but it's PDN, or Pretty Darn Numb.

[D. Bryant]

I'm always amazed they pick a lousy example but it's PDN, or Pretty Darn Numb.

That's a eupamistic way of putting it Frank though I think the story is more complicated than that, which you probably know.

I do think her approach is interesting but there are much better wet platter's here on this forum both aestheically and technically. But do we have any women in the group doing wet plate?

Don Bryant

[Frank Petronio]

While I can't begin to feel the pain that a female, transgender, Inuit, immune-deficient, Hindi, non-English speaker must feel, I still think we ought to judge photos on their own merits. Most of the very part-time hobby photographers here could make a better plate than that, even if they are middle-class, middle-aged, white males.

She's probably a fine human being. I'm not saying she isn't. It's just a predictable PDN choice of images, where they actually think a mediocre effort is kewl.