Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Robert Roaldi on January 02, 2020, 07:28:46 am
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A short 3 min intro to Tin Type from Kalamazoo Valley Museum https://vimeo.com/34579312 (https://vimeo.com/34579312).
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Nice video Robert. How does he keep the liquids from running off the plate? How "poisonous" are these chemicals?
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Nice video Robert. How does he keep the liquids from running off the plate? How "poisonous" are these chemicals?
Good questions, maybe someone out there knows.
I wondered if there wasn't a tiny "lip" at the edges that were left from the cutting. Maybe that and liquid surface tension? Just guessing.
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Nice video Robert. How does he keep the liquids from running off the plate? How "poisonous" are these chemicals?
I do not think these are too dangerous to produce, but the process produces a sheet with around an ISO of 0.5. You read that right, 1/2 ISO.
A couple of years ago Victoria Will did celebrity portraits at the Sundance Film Festival. I think she used a Profoto Twin head connected to two Pro 8 Packs both set at full blast from about 2 to 3 feet from the subject. That's 4800 w/s of power, which is so bright it would feel like the sun suddenly started shinning on you. The images are pretty cool!
Insofar as danger, I think the Daguerreotype holds the record as the most hazardous. The original development and fixing process requires the plate to be hung with the image facing down over a boiling vat of liquid mercury. There is a reason why Daguerre did not make a career of his invention and instead gave it away.
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Reminded me of a Sally Mann video where she prepares one of her wet collodion plates... I believe it's one of the talents or, rather, techniques that you have to learn in order to go back to the future.
Rob
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Reminded me of a Sally Mann video where she prepares one of her wet collodion plates... I believe it's one of the talents or, rather, techniques that you have to develop in order to go back to the future.
Rob
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Very nice video;
The lightsensitive material used is the same as the BW film;( silver halides)
Only it is hand made and the sticky material is collodium- cellulose nitrate- that caches flame very easy( just like the old cellulose films)
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Very nice video;
The lightsensitive material used is the same as the BW film;( silver halides)
Only it is hand made and the sticky material is collodium- cellulose nitrate- that caches flame very easy( just like the old cellulose films)
Oh my wife will love that when I tell her what I'm planning to do with my new 4x5. :)