River bottle and seeds.
Wet Plate Collodion on Japanned aluminum. Made with my Kodak Anastigmat #31 (5.5" f 4.5) lens on the Intrepid Camera. Image made with the lens wide open at f4.5
I Japanned the plate myself (such superior blacks!). Collodion used: Old Workhorse. Developer: "witches brew", which is a bottle I dump the dregs of all my Iron sulfate developers in. It currently contains some Bostick and Sullivan, some UV Photographics, some home-made Coffer's Positive, plus a splash extra Glacial Acetic Acid for added restraining power.
A shout out to Rat Bidegain, who taught me the Wet Plate technique at one of his workshops two years ago. I wouldn't be doing this work had I not attended Ray's workshop. Thank you Ray!
River bottle and seeds.
Wet Plate Collodion on Japanned aluminum. Made with my Kodak Anastigmat #31 (5.5" f 4.5) lens on the Intrepid Camera. Image made with the lens wide open at f4.5
I Japanned the plate myself (such superior blacks!). Collodion used: Old Workhorse. Developer: "witches brew", which is a bottle I dump the dregs of all my Iron sulfate developers in. It currently contains some Bostick and Sullivan, some UV Photographics, some home-made Coffer's Positive, plus a splash extra Glacial Acetic Acid for added restraining power.
A shout out to Rat Bidegain, who taught me the Wet Plate technique at one of his workshops two years ago. I wouldn't be doing this work had I not attended Ray's workshop. Thank you Ray!