First Wet-plates

[Andrew Plume]

Hi John

daguerreotypes

you may want to have a look at Jason Greenberg Motamedi's excellent website - http://motamedi.info/index.htm - there's plenty of stuff on there etc etc

regards

andrew

[Fourtoes]

Standard film holders need to be adapted to work best.

Am I allowed to post a link to someone elses forum/blog as they have images on how its done.

[Joanna Carter]

Am I allowed to post a link to someone elses forum/blog as they have images on how its done.

No problem.

[Fourtoes]

This is from Alex Timmermans blog, a great wetplate photographer.

http://collodion-art.blogspot.com/2010/ ... plate.html

[Neil Barnes]

That site is a gem. I shall be grabbing the pdf images and making ebooks from them when I have a week or two...

Humphrey, S.D. (1849) A System of Photography was an excellent read last night - apart from the wonderful English (how many of us have been perplexed by sunlight entering the room?) and the somewhat casual approach to elf 'n' safety: apparently it's OK to be in the same room as mercury vapours, but when dealing with hydroflouric acid it's best to wear leather gloves and tie a handkerchief around the face...

But the description of how to make calotypes, by Fox Talbot himself, is one I shall be exploring.

Neil

[Fourtoes]

My apologies Susie- sorry your thread seems to have been hijacked...Theres a wetplate section to the forum for questions if anyones interested.

[John Hamlen]

Yes, sorry Susie. I love the one-of-a-kind nature of these photographs and took your thread off on a bit of a tangent by going into excited-questions mode
I will restart the tread in the "Wet Plate & Alternative Processes" section that Fourtoes mentions....

[Andrew Plume]

Yes, sorry Susie. I love the one-of-a-kind nature of these photographs and took your thread off on a bit of a tangent by going into excited-questions mode
I will restart the tread in the "Wet Plate & Alternative Processes" section that Fourtoes mentions....

sounds good John - great to see that more folks are taking an interest in this medium, one day I must.....must....

regards

andrew

[Susie Frith]

Here is another one I took on the same occasion, just got it scanned in.

I was pouring a plate to use for another trial exposure. I knew these two girls were about, just looking at what these odd people were doing, when I heard Carl tell them that, "Susie's just pouring a plate: she will take your picture." Well, nothing like putting on the pressure for a correct pour, exposure and dev!

Anyway, this is how it turned out.




On another note, we bought a house last year, and since then have been putting it put back to its Victorian splendour: Morris wallpaper, swags and tails in the parlour, reinstating the cast iron fireplaces etc. As some of the guys who have worked on the house have "interesting" faces I rather fancy doing a series of portraits of them. So far, four or five have said yes, so I must get onto John Brewer and order some chemicals. Watch this space! (But not too closely!)

Susie

[Neil Barnes]

Interesting - I don't get the odd perspective flatness I had with the earlier image.

The method really brings out the texture of the stonework, but perhaps a touch over exposed? Anyone know the spectral sensitivity of the chemistry? I'm guessing UV/blue sensitive, rather than red.

Neil

[Fourtoes]

Yep UV sensitive.

Some people rate it ISO 2 -6 ish...very ish.