Wet plate tutorial – Brett Clarke

On Sunday I gave a wet plate tutorial to photographer Brett Clarke. Lets just say I think he’s hooked.

He shot a variety of tintypes/ambrotypes from 1/4 plate up to whole plate.

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Using the Watson studio camera with his ever patient wife Lindsey.

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Its “Go Big or Go Home” time.

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The Hunter Penrose getting put to good use…

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Some of Bretts whole plates… sorry about my poor digital images, hopefully Brett will send me some copies to replace these with.

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And the 12×15 inch plate from the Hunter Penrose camera, underexposed and over developed, that’ll teach us for bouncing the lights…. I’d be interested to see how a scan of the plate comes out.

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Its always refreshing to see this level of enthusiasm. Welcome to the addictive world of Wet Plate photography Brett, have fun.