Best wishes to you Bob! Cheers...
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FYI: The Library of Congress released 700 Civil War portraits which were a gift from Liljenquist Family Collection and posted them to Flickr: Atlantic CW link CW Images Flickr page
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I scanned this some years ago from the title page of an early landscape photography book... Your self portrait reminded me of it...
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Melitte is an excellent wet plate photographer and member of this forum. Check out this show if you're in the area... Melitte's NYU MFA Thesis Show Reception: This Saturday, July 24th, 6-8pm 80 Washington Square East Gallery New York, NY 10003 Exhibition: July 24-August 3 10am-6pm Tu-Sat
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Ty G Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > David, does the lens move or does the plateholder > move on that one? Ty, I can't remember, and I can't find a picture of the back. I know the back shifts, but it looks like the front may slide horizontally also... Others here have seen him use it and should remember more...
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Here are a couple of pictures of John's multi image camera...
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On the river my exposures were 20 seconds to 2 minutes depending on the brightness, color of the light, stops etc... I grounded the boat to keep it steady. I changed it so now I just stand behind the boat and have the darkbox facing back...
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Here's the picture I made of that tree...
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This last one is H.H. Bennett in the Wisconsin Dells...
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Flash picture: Timothy O'Sullivan, Virginia City Mine c. 1869 "In the late summer the party stopped off at Virginia City, that high-riding boom town where the mounds of whiskey bottles were as high as a cabin’s roof. There were a few muddy streets, clapboard houses, and plenty of hard-drinking, hard-rock miners with money in their pockets from working the Comstock Lode. Here in this sprawlin
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Great wet plate work: Melitte Buchman Recent Tintypes: "History of the Past" At Swallow Gallery 361 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY Opening October 22, 2009 To see more of Melitte's work, go to www.melittebuchman.com
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Victor, In my experience, Rubylith fades over time, also I've had fog issues when direct sun was involved. I would just use red stained glass if I were putting in a window. For the past four years, I've used only a headlamp, which works great. No more windows for me... This is what I use:
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Good quality duvetyne is lightproof. I got some lightproof cloth at filmtools.com. Duvetyne however, is much heavier than the other blackout cloth's being discussed here...
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Hi Bob, I had the exact same problem last spring- with varnish that had worked fine previously and again with a new batch from the same stock chemicals. I think Andy is right regarding evaporation. It was a technique issue for me... as I solved it by keeping the plate higher off the heat until the varnish set. I use a hot plate as my heat source, and noticed that it was worse when I dr
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The recipe I posted is "old workhorse" with the iodide switched from potassium to ammonium, making it usable right away... Whatever the formula, it's the ammonium iodide that makes it clear fast. I learned this from Mark and France, and I use it everyday. It works for me.
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Old Workhorse Collodion (fast clear) 240 ml Collodion 200 ml Ether ______________________ 1.6 g cadmium bromide 1.4 g ammonium bromide ______________________ 5 g ammonium iodide 200 ml Alcohol It's the ammonium iodide that make it clear right away.
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Beautiful profile...
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FYI: A show of tintypes that I had in Boston in June was just reviewed in this month's ARTnews magazine. Check it out...
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Just to update... I sunned my silver bath for the day, filtered it and it's back to it's old self... thanks...
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I'm in agreement with the diagnosis, and know it's the silver bath. I'm currently sunning it (though it's about to rain so it's covered for a while) This silver bath has served me well with very little maintainence (filter and re-silver regularly)for 3 years, so this is new territory for me. Thanks again for the help...
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Thanks for the help... I think it is the silver bath...even though I had just filtered and re-silvered it, I think it probably is stuff in the bath. I was shooting all weekend in the woods with body art people about 3 hours from home. Each plate had spots to varying degrees in random patterns. The silver bath got shaken up when I moved my set up. I got up early today to test my silver bath a
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aluminum...
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I wasted all day trying to figure out what was causing these spots on ALL of my plates. The spots are not present when I put the plates into the silver, but are visible when they come out. I tried two different batches of collodion (different formulas) and there was no difference. I just re silvered and filtered my silver the day before... I'll test a couple of plates in two silver ba
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Congratulations Steve and Bob! I wish I could see the show!
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Eric, Wow! You look like you should be riding a blue ox... This is how I remember you... trying to pick up radio signals from space...
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Hi Mike, I'll be in Sweden that week for my mother-in -law's 80th birthday celebration... maybe next year.
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lovely portrait...
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It was shot in the open shade of my school building, so the split reflection is me and my camera and breaking up the sky...
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For anyone in the Boston area... Gallery NAGA David Prifti Collodion Portraits June 6 – July 11, 2008 Reception: This Friday, June 6, 6–8 pm 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 617.267.9060
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If the KCN is not properly rinsed from the plate, it will continue to clear the plate till it disappears. When it happened to me, I solved it with an additional rinse.
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