{"id":2022,"date":"2011-04-11T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:30:56","slug":"professor-steve-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/professor-steve-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Steve Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are some plates taken after shooting some work digitally for Steve Dixon, Professorial Research Fellow in Contemporary Crafts at MMU. <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk\/profile\/sdixon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had originally asked Steve if it would be okay to make some plates of  his latest work and it turned out that he was pretty interested in the  possibility of using wet plate imagery with ceramic transfer printing.<\/p>\n<p>These are a variety of trophy aluminium, clear glass and black glass. All 5&#215;7. Exposures from 15-20 seconds. Quick clear Collodion, Rapid Fix.<\/p>\n<p>We had particular problems with the darker glaze (brown) on the left side of the ceramics face. It has strong red pigmentation so comes out deep black, had to flood it with light to pick up any detail at all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2026\" title=\"Dixon004Tin\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon004Tin.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon004Tin\" height=\"505\" width=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon004Tin.jpg 359w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon004Tin-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2025\" title=\"Dixon003\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon003.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon003\" height=\"502\" width=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon003.jpg 356w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon003-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2024\" title=\"Dixon002\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon002.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon002\" height=\"360\" width=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon002.jpg 502w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon002-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2023\" title=\"Dixon001\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon001.jpg\" alt=\"Dixon001\" height=\"503\" width=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon001.jpg 357w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Dixon001-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some plates taken after shooting some work digitally for Steve Dixon, Professorial Research Fellow in Contemporary Crafts at MMU. 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