That was an excellent vlog! Thanks for showing us behind the scenes in this incredible process. And the portrait with the googles looks very steampunk. Great stuff all round. 😎
Thank you for watching! I was a fan of Guy's work long before I had any plan to go and see him. But I'm so glad I did. Far from taking away from the magic, I think being able to see the process only adds to the mystique of wet plate. Quite an experience!
Lovely video and what a gift to get such insight to this process. It does seem like a major commitment to fully embrace this process. But I’m glad there are folks like Guy that keep it alive. Kudos!
Totally agree, so glad that there are people like Guy keeping these things alive. But what a process. I didn’t get a chance to cover the other elements of it all, which as upkeep of the silver nitrate bath, which needs almost constant attention, and the shellac varnishing which sounds insanely laborious! All in all, it’s hard work! The results are definitely amazing, but you’ve really gotta want it!
This was such a good video! I don't think I can complain about 4x5 film being slow after this experience. Looking forward to the future content . Looks really interesting.
Thank you! Such a privilege for me to be able to watch a master at work! I definitely learned a lot from Guy, not just about the wet plate process, but portrait photography in general. I was very lucky.
Thank for watching! Definitely a fascinating process. I'm not drawn to it yet... but there are definitely aspects of the wet plate process that you can get with other processes. Watch out for some vids coming up soon on my channel.
What an AMAZING video, watching this gave me shivers for excitement. Btw I think the first portrait is nicest, but they are all exceptionally good and being worth displayed somewhere prominent. The dedication Guy puts in this is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! It’s such a special process. Watching those images appear in the fixer is definitely an experience I would recommend everyone watches just once. I like the first portrait, for sure. I think what guy said about mug shots is intriguing. I may spend some time doing some myself, albeit not with this process! I’m toying with the idea of starting a gallery on the wall behind where I do most of my filming, and these portraits would be great there… need to clear that with my wife first of course!
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Great video and nice photos. Also loved to see all those crazy lenses.
Loved this. I agree that I'm not going to run out and get all the stuff to do this, but it's really interesting. Thanks for showing us how the process works.
It’s a fascinating process, but I think you have to really want it! And right now, I’m definitely interested, but I don’t really really want it. Great to experience it, and I have total respect for those who choose this as their process, but it’s not for me right now!
Fantastic! I did a wet plate workshop with Tim Pearse last year and I also have a tintype portrait of myself by Gareth Jarvis from Penarth, who is another excellent wet plate photographer. Like you, I'm not sure I'm ready to go down the wet plate route just yet, though. Sticking with film and paper for the moment, particularly kallitypes from 10x8 negatives, although I'd like to try making dry plates.
Nice video. In the 2021 took a foto workshop with Borut Peterlin in Slovenia (check his channel if interested in wet plate collodium). It was a great experience to make all the process from making the plates, setting the camera and developing, fixing and applying coat on the plate to protect it. Apart other photos we took have 2 portraits of mine with this process. One tintype an other on glass negative which we enlarged on silver gelatine paper. On both I seem as an 1860's far west criminal but I like them very much. Great experience. Hope one day can do this process myself, apart a bit difficult to obtain necessary chemicals nowdays due regulations... For now using dry glass plates from Zebra. Regards and enjoy photography :)
Ah yes! Borut! I’m already subscribed to his channel, he seems like a great guy. And to do a workshop with him in Slovenia, that must have been incredible! Definitely makes you look like a far west criminal though, I agree! I think that whole the Zebra Dry Plates are not as magical, they are much easier to use, as far as the chemicals are concerned. But still very tricky to get right! Good luck!
@@the120ist I never tired the Zebra tintype dryplates myself. As mentioned above have been working only with negative glass dry plates where had quite good results. Seems they are more forgiving concerning right exposure, development and something can also be corrected during printing on enlarger like exposure time, using contrast filters, dodging and/or buring, etc. Getting good results also if are scaned with small post corrections. For tintypes have watched your experience and some others, seems are challenging to get right or at least acceptable... Regards, Andrej
I’ve been a subscriber for a little while and thought it’s about time I dropped a comment here to say how much I’ve enjoyed your work here and when I’ve heard you in various podcasts. I was looking forward to seeing your experience of this amazing photographic process since you announced it was planned. I’ve seen wet plate sooting and developing in person and know that it has a magical look that will never be quite as captivating on video as it is in person, although it did come through very well in your video. I’ve shot direct positive paper portraits and developed them in a makeshift darkroom for the models to see appear in the tray. The process shares a very low ISO of 1.5 and has its own interesting appearance if not as impressive ultimately. So, ‘surely the idea of collecting the equipment and materials yourself must be on your mind? I know there is no way I’m not going to get into wet plate eventually, if I didn’t want a challenge I’d still be shooting digital exclusively. About time I found out where to get this stuff in the UK since you didn’t spill that secret.
Hi Peter, thanks for your kind words! It certainly is a magical process, and I wish you well with it. Maybe one day I’ll feel more drawn to it, but for now, for me, the beautiful end result won’t justify the concessions to the process. But I do stress that that’s ’for now’! I love getting out and about and going to new places and trying new things. This process, I believe, requires methodical work and repeatable conditions, with the plates at least, if not the image capture. I think the area of photography I’m enjoying the most at the moment is environmental portraits - going into someone else’s world and taking photos of them there. So wet plate collodion would be doubly difficult for that. Not impossible at all, I know some people do it. But definitely not something one would drift into. I’d have to really want it! I have almost finished my first video on black and white paper reversal, that has been a very interesting process to try. Have you ever done that? I’ll hopefully be uploading that on Sunday. Mixed results for now, but definitely shows potential, and a level of complexity and requirement for skill and thought which does seem to satisfy that need to test ourselves! Alas, Guy didn’t share with me the secrets of where to find all the various bits required for wet plate shooting. Although a few commenters and messages have pointed towards a website called wet plate dreams (!) for lenses, and mamutphoto for other equipment. Also John Brewer Photography… google that one, I think he does chemistry. Let me know how you get on! 👍
It’s a good question. I considered comparing them side by side at the end, but decided it’s like comparing apples to oranges. Proper wet plate collodion plates are in a different league, they are literally spectacular to hold in your hand. But the process takes such complete commitment that it’s just not practical for anyone but the hard core fanatic. The chemicals are hard to get, and they take careful preparation and continual upkeep. The dry plate tintypes you can just go ahead and get started. So for that reason, the less impressive results are perfectly acceptable. I will shoot more dry plates, I won’t attempt a wet plate any time in the near future!!
Very interesting. Beautifully done images by Guy!
He's a very talented man!
That was an excellent vlog! Thanks for showing us behind the scenes in this incredible process. And the portrait with the googles looks very steampunk. Great stuff all round. 😎
Thank you! It was a privilege being photographed by Guy! And really good to see another photographer at work!
Thanks for this video. I am a fan of Guy’s work and I throughly enjoyed seeing his process.
Thank you for watching! I was a fan of Guy's work long before I had any plan to go and see him. But I'm so glad I did. Far from taking away from the magic, I think being able to see the process only adds to the mystique of wet plate. Quite an experience!
This was really well done. Subject, narrative, and editing all combined into an enjoyable story. Bravo!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely video and what a gift to get such insight to this process. It does seem like a major commitment to fully embrace this process. But I’m glad there are folks like Guy that keep it alive. Kudos!
Totally agree, so glad that there are people like Guy keeping these things alive. But what a process. I didn’t get a chance to cover the other elements of it all, which as upkeep of the silver nitrate bath, which needs almost constant attention, and the shellac varnishing which sounds insanely laborious! All in all, it’s hard work! The results are definitely amazing, but you’ve really gotta want it!
Thank you very much for this content . Loved this video. I look forward to seeing what is next from you.
Thank you, I’m so glad you enjoyed it. It was a special experience! Lots more exciting stuff coming up!
This was such a good video! I don't think I can complain about 4x5 film being slow after this experience. Looking forward to the future content . Looks really interesting.
Thank you! Such a privilege for me to be able to watch a master at work! I definitely learned a lot from Guy, not just about the wet plate process, but portrait photography in general. I was very lucky.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Thank for watching! Definitely a fascinating process. I'm not drawn to it yet... but there are definitely aspects of the wet plate process that you can get with other processes. Watch out for some vids coming up soon on my channel.
that was an incredible process really like how the plates came out.
It is an incredible process isn't it? The plates are incredible, and just extraordinary to see when you hold them in your hand. Quite amazing.
i think the one in the hat and goggles and mug shot ones are the best.@@the120ist
What an AMAZING video, watching this gave me shivers for excitement. Btw I think the first portrait is nicest, but they are all exceptionally good and being worth displayed somewhere prominent. The dedication Guy puts in this is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! It’s such a special process. Watching those images appear in the fixer is definitely an experience I would recommend everyone watches just once. I like the first portrait, for sure. I think what guy said about mug shots is intriguing. I may spend some time doing some myself, albeit not with this process! I’m toying with the idea of starting a gallery on the wall behind where I do most of my filming, and these portraits would be great there… need to clear that with my wife first of course!
Great video and nice photos. Also loved to see all those crazy lenses.
Thank you! Those lenses are crazy right? So... much... glass!!!
Great video, Guy is a full on photography hero!
He really is!! Legend.
Loved this. I agree that I'm not going to run out and get all the stuff to do this, but it's really interesting. Thanks for showing us how the process works.
It’s a fascinating process, but I think you have to really want it! And right now, I’m definitely interested, but I don’t really really want it. Great to experience it, and I have total respect for those who choose this as their process, but it’s not for me right now!
I'm still just trying to figure out the basics. You have been helpful in learning about 120 film and many other things. Thank you.
beautiful short documentary and I support negative thinking
Thank you so much! I hope to do more videos with Negative Thinking in the future 👍👍
@@the120ist cool, im looking forward
Fantastic! I did a wet plate workshop with Tim Pearse last year and I also have a tintype portrait of myself by Gareth Jarvis from Penarth, who is another excellent wet plate photographer. Like you, I'm not sure I'm ready to go down the wet plate route just yet, though. Sticking with film and paper for the moment, particularly kallitypes from 10x8 negatives, although I'd like to try making dry plates.
Nice video. In the 2021 took a foto workshop with Borut Peterlin in Slovenia (check his channel if interested in wet plate collodium). It was a great experience to make all the process from making the plates, setting the camera and developing, fixing and applying coat on the plate to protect it. Apart other photos we took have 2 portraits of mine with this process. One tintype an other on glass negative which we enlarged on silver gelatine paper. On both I seem as an 1860's far west criminal but I like them very much. Great experience. Hope one day can do this process myself, apart a bit difficult to obtain necessary chemicals nowdays due regulations...
For now using dry glass plates from Zebra.
Regards and enjoy photography :)
I will check that channel, thank you
Ah yes! Borut! I’m already subscribed to his channel, he seems like a great guy. And to do a workshop with him in Slovenia, that must have been incredible! Definitely makes you look like a far west criminal though, I agree! I think that whole the Zebra Dry Plates are not as magical, they are much easier to use, as far as the chemicals are concerned. But still very tricky to get right! Good luck!
@@the120ist I never tired the Zebra tintype dryplates myself. As mentioned above have been working only with negative glass dry plates where had quite good results. Seems they are more forgiving concerning right exposure, development and something can also be corrected during printing on enlarger like exposure time, using contrast filters, dodging and/or buring, etc. Getting good results also if are scaned with small post corrections. For tintypes have watched your experience and some others, seems are challenging to get right or at least acceptable...
Regards, Andrej
I’ve been a subscriber for a little while and thought it’s about time I dropped a comment here to say how much I’ve enjoyed your work here and when I’ve heard you in various podcasts.
I was looking forward to seeing your experience of this amazing photographic process since you announced it was planned. I’ve seen wet plate sooting and developing in person and know that it has a magical look that will never be quite as captivating on video as it is in person, although it did come through very well in your video. I’ve shot direct positive paper portraits and developed them in a makeshift darkroom for the models to see appear in the tray. The process shares a very low ISO of 1.5 and has its own interesting appearance if not as impressive ultimately.
So, ‘surely the idea of collecting the equipment and materials yourself must be on your mind? I know there is no way I’m not going to get into wet plate eventually, if I didn’t want a challenge I’d still be shooting digital exclusively. About time I found out where to get this stuff in the UK since you didn’t spill that secret.
Hi Peter, thanks for your kind words! It certainly is a magical process, and I wish you well with it. Maybe one day I’ll feel more drawn to it, but for now, for me, the beautiful end result won’t justify the concessions to the process. But I do stress that that’s ’for now’!
I love getting out and about and going to new places and trying new things. This process, I believe, requires methodical work and repeatable conditions, with the plates at least, if not the image capture. I think the area of photography I’m enjoying the most at the moment is environmental portraits - going into someone else’s world and taking photos of them there. So wet plate collodion would be doubly difficult for that. Not impossible at all, I know some people do it. But definitely not something one would drift into. I’d have to really want it!
I have almost finished my first video on black and white paper reversal, that has been a very interesting process to try. Have you ever done that? I’ll hopefully be uploading that on Sunday. Mixed results for now, but definitely shows potential, and a level of complexity and requirement for skill and thought which does seem to satisfy that need to test ourselves!
Alas, Guy didn’t share with me the secrets of where to find all the various bits required for wet plate shooting. Although a few commenters and messages have pointed towards a website called wet plate dreams (!) for lenses, and mamutphoto for other equipment. Also John Brewer Photography… google that one, I think he does chemistry.
Let me know how you get on! 👍
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That's really interesting, is it a mirrored image?
What do you think of dryplate tintype after this wetplace experience in the flesh? Is wetplace tintype better?
It’s a good question. I considered comparing them side by side at the end, but decided it’s like comparing apples to oranges. Proper wet plate collodion plates are in a different league, they are literally spectacular to hold in your hand. But the process takes such complete commitment that it’s just not practical for anyone but the hard core fanatic. The chemicals are hard to get, and they take careful preparation and continual upkeep. The dry plate tintypes you can just go ahead and get started. So for that reason, the less impressive results are perfectly acceptable. I will shoot more dry plates, I won’t attempt a wet plate any time in the near future!!
@@the120ist Thanks for the info. I am following the same exact route!