Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[Ron (Netherlands)]

I've been preparing to make collodion plates for almost a year, and a couple of months ago I started making plates. First in 4x5 (with a Speed Graphic), then in 5x7/13x18 with a couple of cameras (a Gundlach Korona View and a German reisekamera made by Konrad Seitz in Nürnberg. I hope to jump up to 18x24 with a Soviet FK made in Leningrad I have. I've been using only Old Workhorse premixed collodion by Franalog in Germany. By now I've even manufactured myself a dark box out of a plastic container, which barely has room for 4x5 only plates.

Here are some of my plates:

First wet plate collodion by SBA73, en Flickr

Soviet triple clone by SBA73, en Flickr

Keep still by SBA73, en Flickr

To my father by SBA73, en Flickr

Great results! They all capture the atmosphere of the old wet plate technique.