{"id":5278,"date":"2012-06-19T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:52:18","slug":"a-wet-plate-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/a-wet-plate-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"A wet plate tutorial…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I travelled to Hull to provide a wet plate tutorial for Sam Cornwell, a photographer from Portsmouth, he had already had a taster session at the Bristol Festival of Photography last month.<\/p>\n

Weather reports had been pretty dire and we were ready to shoot indoors with artificial lights. Sam and his wife Beverley, also a photographer, were staying at Bevs parents house for a few days. I think I was more worried than Sam about any silver nitrate stains on the floor of the fantastically improvised darkroom\/bathroom. Luckily, when I arrived the sun was out and we made the most of it.<\/p>\n

Hers some digi snaps from the day…<\/p>\n

Sam opted for the full safety gear and rightly so.<\/p>\n

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Bev getting ready for the first plate, Sam wanted to concentrate on shooting 5×4 ambrotypes with his own camera at first.
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Here we go. First collodion pour of the day… there were a couple of short pours but he soon got the hang of it.
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Some of the results.
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\"SamAmbro01\"<\/p>\n

Moving on to 5×7 and wholeplate…
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… and some cracking plates.
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\"SamWP03\"<\/p>\n

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Sam was really pleased with this one, and rightly so.
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Having done some great wholeplates and some 5x7s we decided to up the ante to 12×15 inches.
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And on to the dreaded varnishing. Look at the concentration…
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… didn’t last long did it…
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… but the results were some well varnished plates.
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Varnishing the 12×15 was a challenge.
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So in one day Sam managed to shoot over twenty plates. Some got wiped, cleaned and re-used.
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I hope Sam and Bev had a good day, they seem to have an infectious enthusiasm to all forms of photography. I look forward to seeing how they do with the wet plate addiction.<\/p>\n

If your interested heres Sams blog… clicky click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Heres a quick vid of the 12×15 getting fixed, sorry its not high quality…<\/p>\n

and one of that great whole plate getting a fix…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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