Chiaroscuro

And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione

Heading to Indy.

I know that bragging that I’m going to Indy is not what most people would envy.  But I’m excited as all get out!!!!  

I’m heading off to take a two day workshop on Wet Plate Collodion Photography.  This is a process that was developed by  Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 and uses a glass or metal plate as the negative and is hand coated just prior to photographing.  The photography and development must also be done while the plate is still wet.  Mathew Brady used this method during the Civil War but also use Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes.

I’m hopping to have some sample work from the workshop to show you next week.

The image below is closer to a Calotype which was developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835.  Of course Renee is not that old, I made this photograph of her last week.

 
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Rob Wehmeier

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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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