Now that I’ve got all the necessary materials, I can finally green light this project. I’m going to do a series of nudes on glass negatives and various metals, tin and aluminum. I’m really enjoying the process, but it’s very strange ending up with only a few plates from each shoot. The setup + taking each shot is around 30 minutes / plate. In the first plate, below, we shot it three times to try to get it right. There goes an hour and a half. 🙂 We shot 6 plates and I ended up with these three that I liked the best. It certainly makes you take your time before you take the shot. Here is the lovely, Eden…
Eden I: In this first shot, I was trying to get it a little sharper, but after 3 attempts, it was just too hard of a position to hold for 10 seconds. I used a 2k hot light here, which is usually a lot of light for normal film or digital cameras. In wet plate, which is around 1 ISO, you need a lot of light to record an image. The shot grows on me the more I look at it though. I think a lot of these images are going to have a different feel to them due to the process, and it’s one of the things that I’m really enjoying about it.
Eden II
Eden III: I’m not quite sure what caused the white areas in the top left and right, but they’re in the image. It can’t be wiped off. My silver nitrate is new, so I’ve heard of such things happening with that…more mysteries in wet plate land. 🙂
That’s all for now. Look out for the next one soon…
James
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