I spend the afternoon with CJ Harker at the new space for the Halide Project in Philadelphia making wet collodion photographs in pretty much the same manner as they did 150 years ago - by making up the chemistry from scratch, prepping all the materials, and showing every step to completing a real wet collodion photograph with a real 19th century camera. The photos are shot and developed in real time in this video, and we fill the time between steps discussing the history, chemistry, and techniques of this very fascinating historical photographic method.
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The chemists in the comments are yelling, "USE A #@($@%(#@ STIR BAR!"
hi fran where did you buy the manual?
You sent me here from the future about guncotton !
The skill and knowledge is amazing.
This video needs more views and is one of your best videos!
So full of information and what a great tutorial for the avid fan of photography. What a wonderful presentation, thank you for sharing. ~M
Really nice to have a complete uncut walk through of "the process". Thanks. Still I think if you seal an ambrotype by taping a piece of trophy metal to it with archival book binders tape (or other method) it will be pretty permanent. Watching an image wash off in the varnish because your collodion was old is sole destroying. Under some circumstances varnishing is the opposite of a preservation technique!
A friend at university in the early 1980s made some wet collodion images. He took the pictures using his great grandfathers camera. He still has the high street photographic studio that was founded by his great grandfather in 1858. He had all the Victorian studio kit up to the mid 1990s when he donated most of it to the Kodak Museum.
Unicum bottle !!!
Hungarian- Jägermeister like drink .
I found the part about the Lac Beatle fascinating. I didn’t know that Fran. Thank you.
Once again kudos for an extremely interesting presentation as
is the standard for your channel. However I was a bit mystified
at the hesitation to mention the “substance”. So after reading
the entire list of comments and then looking up “Google blacklist”,
am I to understand that the mere mention of this stuff can get
your channel blocked? If this is the case we are in for a world
of the stuff no one wants to step in. Or can I just say SHIT!
I mean how can this “mega internet portal” stifle knowledge or am
I just being naive given the current state of affairs since 9-11?
Matthew Brady did all this in a wagon on a battlefield. Thanks Fran, fascinating.
Excel·lent.