Recently I leant my 10x8 camera to a friend who was shooting a short promo film for a novel written by his wife, Wendy Wallace.

The story involves a 19th. century husband locking up his wife in an asylum. Her being photograph featured in the story,

At the end of the session I offered to make a quick 5"x4"ambro. Here is a scan of the result:



Seán

Awesome! That is just beautiful! Thanks so much for posting it - really inspiring

beautiful plate.
thanks for posting Sean

Sean,You should do some more "quickies"......
beautiful plate

great one! I really like it.

Thats a good one. Almost Cameron-esque.

Taken using my 1862 Dallmeyer 2B, about six seconds at f8. Using my sodium iodide and bromide version of Lt.Col.Suart Wortley's lithium collodion from the Silver Sunbeam.

Wow!! Beautiful Sean! Your model, your plate, pose etc etc... I really like this!

Awesome picture, she looks beautiful for sure

My fascination with 1850s photo technology is such that I try very hard to copy
the methods and techniques of early photographers.

In my opinion the success of this portrait is largely due to Serena's quality as a model,
my contribution was merely to record the view, it was the lens, the chemistry and Serena
herself that made this work.

Seán

Sean. Over the top good.