Graflex with Aero Ektarlens

Alu plate 4x5 inch with Colldion

Exposure 2 min with UV lamps

4X5 Glass plate

Collodion Process

Sinar F Camera

Shot at: F5.6, 120", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 Glass plate

Collodion Process

Sinar F Camera

Shot at: F5.6, 150", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 Glass plate

Collodion Process

Sinar F Camera

Shot at: F5.6, 150", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 Tintype plate

Collodion Process

Graflex Speed Graphic Camera

No.3 Acme synchro Ilex F4.5 6 1/2 inches (166mm) ( Year 1950-1960)

Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 21cm F4.5

Shot at: F4.5, 120", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 Glass plate

Collodion Process

Sinar F Camera

Shot at: F5.6, 120", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 21cm F4.5

Shot at: F5.6, 120", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider 150mm F5.6

Shot at: F5.6 150 Seconds under two LED lights indoor

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lens: Cooke Telephoto Anastigmat F/5.6 320mm

Shot at: F5.6, 120", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F11, 2mins outdoor

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F5.6, 2mins, Indoor,2 LED Lights

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Graflex Speed Graphic Large Format 4X5

Lens: No.3 Acme synchro Ilex F4.5 6 1/2 inches (166mm) (Maybe Year 1950-1960)

F5.6, 180"

Three LED indoor.

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Wet Plate Collodion glass negative, 5x7 inches.

Camera: Intrepid 5x7 with the 6&3/8" Kodak Anastigmat lens, at f5.6

Three minute exposure.

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Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lines: Cooke Telephoto nastigmat F/5.6 320mm

F5.6, 120" Glass Wet Plate Collodion

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 21cm F4.5

Shot at: F4.5, 100", Indoor,2 LED Lights

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Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lines: Cooke Telephoto Anastigmat F/5.6 320mm

F5.6, 180" Glass Wet Plate Collodion

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4X5 glass plate Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F8.0, 90 Seconds, indoor with LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F5.6, 2:30mins, Indoor,2 LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F5.6, 120 Seconds, indoor LED lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider 150mm F5.6

Shot at: F8.0 180 Seconds under two LED lights indoor

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From a wet plate collodion negative, on 5x7 inch glass.

Camera: Intrepid 5x7

Lens: 1934 Kodak Anastigmat 5.5", at f16

Exposure was 17 minutes.

4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F8.0, 45 Seconds, Outdoor

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider 150mm F5.6

Shot at: F5.6 120 Seconds under two LED lights indoor

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Graflex Speed Graphic Large Format 4X5

Lens:Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4.5 F=21cm (1920-1930)

4x5 Glass Wet Plate Collodion

F4.5 90" indoor with LED

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4X5 glass plate Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F8.0, 90 Seconds, indoor with LED Lights

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4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F11, 2mins outdoor

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From a 5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative, made with the Intrepid 5x7 Camera and 6-3/8" Kodak Anasitigmat lens, at f8.

Exposure was 7 minutes, using Quinn's Negative collodion and developer.

4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4.5 F=21cm (1920-1930)

Shot at: F5.6 90 Seconds under two LED lights indoor

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From a wet plate collodion glass negative.

I made this plate a couple weeks ago and never scanned it - for some reason I decided I didn't like it. Today, I'm not sure why I discarded it.

5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative (on glass), using the Voigtlander Petzval f3.2 lens.

4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F8, 45 Seconds, Outdoor

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This is from a wet plate collodion negative made using a Brownie 3B! That simple meniscus lens is surprisingly capable, especially when using the small aperture.

This was a 6 minute exposure, using the smallest aperture in the shutter. The negative was not quite ideal, so I used the Iodine redevelopment process to add density.

Wet Plate Collodion negative.

I have archival 9.5 X 12 inch prints of this image available for $50 each (plus shipping)! Contact me here or at bardenphotographics *at* gmail to inquire. The prints are quite beautiful, I promise you.

Camera: Intrepid 4x5

Lens: 113 mm f4.5 Kodak Color Printing Ektar, 1965, wide open.

Collodion: Quinn's Negative

Exposure: 7 minutes.

Graflex Speed Graphic Large Format 4X5

Lens:Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4.5 F=21cm (1920-1930)

4x5 Glass Wet Plate Collodion

F8.0 30" outdoor Cloud day

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My cleanest tintype up to now. I polished the surface just a bit before varnishing, which makes the highlights a tad brighter. The polishing marks however are visible.

From a 5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative, made with the Intrepid 5x7 Camera and 6-3/8" Kodak Anasitigmat lens, at f5.6 & 1/2.

Exposure was 7 minutes, using Quinn's Negative collodion and developer.

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5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative.

Two years ago I photographed a selection of Daffodils picked from various places on the farm. To my surprise, one of the Daffodils photographed as black on wet plate! Yesterday I did some 4x5 plates around the gardens to see if I could locate the mysterious "black" Daffodils. (I did) This is how they photographed under studio conditions.

From an 8x10 inch wet plate collodion negative, made with a Darlot Petzval lens.

This is the 30th anniversary of the death of one of my closest friends, Etienne Espinet - he was 21. These are his motorcycle boots. Thirty f*cking years - I find it hard to fathom.

This image is from a 5x7 inch Wet Plate Collodion negative, made with the 9" Wollensak Verito lens on the 5x7 Intrepid.

From a 5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative, made with a Voiogtlander Petzval lens on a beaten up B&J Watson camera.

Old Workhorse collodion used, 4 minute exposure in natural light.

The rose is an "antique" variety.

Wetplate collodion on tinplate

5x7 inch wet plate collodion negative, made with the Intrepid camera and 203mm Kodak Ektar lens, stopped down one stop (f11.0) Exposure was 75 seconds under partially cloudy conditions, late in the day.

Collodion and developer used: both were Quinn Jacobson's formulas for making negatives. (CdBr + NH4I)

At the start of the summer, when I first photographed the ladder in the river, in my mind it became a metaphor for climbing out of the disaster that is the COVID pandemic. I hadn't intended on leaving it there all summer, but that's what I did - it seemed like there was a story unfolding there, so I left it. Then I started to imagine it as a symbol of the ongoing state of the pandemic - a kind of litmus test: are we succeeding in escaping the gravity well of COVID, or not? Currently, I'd say not so much, and so the ladder stays. If in 4-8 weeks time I don't feel things have improved any, and the river fills for the winter, I will not remove the ladder and - becoming unmoored - it will be free to depart, perhaps landing elsewhere to continue telling its story, out of sight.

“All I remember if gathered together would be

Solitary firework flashes over a fathomless sea.”

Brian Eno

From a 5x7 inch wet plate collodion glass negative. Three minute exposure.

Intrepid 5x7 camera with the 8.5" Wollensak Verito lens.

My 25th tintype. It is a slow learning curve, but we're getting somewhere eventually.

Notes to self: collodion pouring technique improves, developer needs some more alcohol. Exposure was 4:00 minutes at f11, because it was around 8PM and there was not much UV around anymore. Luckily, I got the yellowish tint of slight overexposure and some detail in the blurriness below.

4X5 glass plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Sinar F

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach F5.6/150mm

Shot at: F5.6, 1mins

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I suppose you could think of this as a metaphor for whats happening to civilization right now.

Scan of a wet plate collodion negative on glass. Made with the Voigtlander Petzval lens, with a home-made waterhouse stop. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the f-stop is around f5.6 with the waterhouse stop in.

7 minutes exposure on Quinn's collodion for negatives, about 6 weeks old. (IE: great contrast)

Yesterday I acquired a 10" Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 lens and gave it a test. This is a 5x7 inch tintype (wet plate collodion) image, about 40 seconds exposure with the lens wide open at f4.5

My first ever wet plate collodion tintype. Shot on a Cambo SC-2 and digitized with a Canon 6d

4X5 Aluminum plate

Collodion Process

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

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This is a 35mm wet plate collodion photograph (tintype) made with one of my Kodak Retina type 010 cameras. 7 seconds exposure at f8.

Just for fun, because there isn't a lot of fun in the world right now.

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!