The marks are anomalies from the actual silver... each plate is different ans you can never be sure how a plate will come out. Each one is an individual piece of art...Is the antique effect along the edges from the wet plate or post processing? Nice effect either way.
This does not look like a modern photograph at all and the results work very well for this image.
Seriously olde time tech - I spent some quality time with dr. google to get a partial cure for my ignorance of the process. So you have to develop the plate on the spot after taking the shot?The marks are anomalies from the actual silver... each plate is different ans you can never be sure how a plate will come out. Each one is an individual piece of art...
Yes, you have about 15 minutes from sensitizing the plate with silver, exposing it, and developing it. I have a very small darkroom box on bring on site....Seriously olde time tech - I spent some quality time with dr. google to get a partial cure for my ignorance of the process. So you have to develop the plate on the spot after taking the shot?
Thanks! Less than 1000 people in the world are working in Wet Plate Collodion....Seriously nice to know someone is still keeping this old flame still burning.
The result is a world apart from things we do with our newfangled digital gear