Yes….. Wet Plate just might be my new love. It takes a lot longer to do that shooting with large format, I like slowing down. One of the more fascinating aspects of the process is that the collodion is mostly sensitive to ultraviolet light. This is challenging because the colors being photographed are rendered differently…
Yippeee, I did it! A few more from today. The in-studio coating and development tent. What happens when you get some collodeon on you… It turns brown when you go out in the sun, its going to be with me for a while.
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…