"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
I can see what willie means. the flattened face has few shadows and lacks 3 dimensionality. It's possible that a bit more (or less?) exposure, that is a bit darker, might have more shadows on the face. Would an overly white face be over or under exposure with wet plate?
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Looks pretty close to me. Just very flat lighting in the shade on a very fair complexion.
Hoping he didn't do wet plates of an environmental activist in an environmentally sensitive area, then dump the chemicals on the ground...
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Did you read the link in the first post?
Here it is again.
https://emulsive.org/articles/darkro...te-photography
Tin Can
Most of the chemicals used aren't dangerous outdoors (acetic acid, ferrous sulfate, ethanol, lots of water) and the few that could be (silver nitrate, maybe potassium cyanide instead of ammonium thiosulfate) are very dilute.
Kent in SD
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looking at the image of the image in colour, I am wondering if the scan of the wet plate wasn't lightened in reproduction.
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