Not many people think about it, but to video each step in the field and in the dark room is a real challenge and is not to be underestimated. I applaud your effort both with your photography and especially the effort to document it. Music choice is perfect for your work. Keep up the excellent work!!
Borut, your videos are always informative and humerous, you make One Cool Photography class teacher. I have been developing film since 1967 Junior High School Photography class, but have never tried Wet Plate, but plant too, given that I own two Kodak 3A cameras that are designed for glass plate, Cut Film and film rolls, Photography.
Great videos Borut!! I'm now (a very, very young!!) 68, and have done photography (starting with a jumble sale box camera), on and off, all my life. Bought a 4mp Canon Powershot G2 in 2002, and never upgraded - nice little camera actually!! Now I've 'rebuilt' my darkroom, and loving the whole process again!! End game is to do alternative / historical processes, which I tried out during my 3 year photo course at Derby University in the early 1980's. As you rightly say, Ink Jet is just Ink Jet, whereas a 'real' photograph is a real and wonderful object, that can have real aesthetic and monetary value. Your videos are a great inspiration - please keep up the good work!! Thank you!!
This is absolutely insane, amazing work, and amazing work to video all of it so well. I have never seen anything like that glass plate carbon print. Thanks!
I like the depth of the Ambrotype. The Carbon print has great microcontrast and dynamic range, and rendering of the fine vine details on the branches is excellent. Thanks for taking the time to video your process.
You rock! My new hero! Just started this addiction, we'll see where it goes. Keep making the videos, best informative entertainment on the internet. Thanks, really appreciate your posting this.
Hi, thank you so much for this video. Your pictures are stunning!! Can I ask you what is the solution you use to reveal your ambrotype, is it an iron sulfate solution? What concentration do you use? Thanks again!
I do a lot of inkjet printing, but I'd like to get started in ambrotype photography. Could you recommend a course or list just what I'll need to get started? (I don't even have a large-format camera yet.) Thanks.
The Ambrotype had dramatically less detail in the shadow side of the tree. Is that just a difference in the exposure the Ambrotype was given or do Ambrotypes always lack shadow detail?
williaty excellent remark! Yes, ambrotypes always have less details in shadows and a fraction of dynamic range in comparison to negatives. My estimate is that ambrotype has 2EV dynamic range in comparison to the negative that has about 7. Although collodion photography is not sensitive to yellow, red and low sensitiveness to green spectrum of light, which is very important in understanding dynamic tonality range and quality of light. The difference of dynamic range between ambrotype and negative comes from the way we view them. Ambrotype is viewed as a print, so we see the light that is reflected from the surface of glass plate. Negative is viewed against the light and we see the light transmitting through all the layers of silver. Ambrotype must have very limited amount of silver on the plate, otherwise it's just grayish smudge of silver, because viewed as reflective image. I hope that makes sense. It's very easy to understand if you see the both mediums in person. The difference in dynamic range is greater than comparing polaroid and a negative!
Does the black spray paint work as well as ashphaltan material? The varnish protects the emulsion from the paint? Archival? Truly amazing and beautiful work Borut. Very inspiring.
asphaltic paint is better. Either way the paint is on the back of the plate, on the opposite side of the collodion, so if the acrylic paint cracks, it just needs to be backed with black again. thx!
ok...I thought you painted the collodion side, my mistake..so with painting you cannot reverse the image/glass back to the right orientation....Thanks for your help Borut.
Borut ever worry that by the time you set up your camera 2 km off the hightway and set up your shot your landrover, the tent and everything else will have been stolen? Or get your camera stolen when your in the tent? Slovenia must be safter than Canada. Seems you hiked very far away to get the picture. How long do you hav 10-15 minutes with wet plate?
Slovenia is one of the safest countries. I don't even lock my house. Or I lock it and I'm leaving keys in the lock so whoever comes by, knows that I'm not at home and will come back later. It's true, ha, ha... Once I forgot my camera in the centre of my town. I forgot it because I was entertaining a group of people and just forgot that I wasn't shooting in the studio, but behind the house. Anyway two hours later I've received a phone call of a neighbour that my camera is still outside and it's getting late, so he guessed correctly that I have forgotten it. In bigger cities I don't shoot that often, but yes, I am concerned about it, but until now, nothing happened (knock on wood)
Wow, don't lock your house, that sounds so nice. Got to visit someday for a workshop and just to see the country and meet the people. The camera story is great. No wonder you love your country so much....and YOUR FORREST. Thanks again.
Not many people think about it, but to video each step in the field and in the dark room is a real challenge and is not to be underestimated. I applaud your effort both with your photography and especially the effort to document it. Music choice is perfect for your work.
Keep up the excellent work!!
Borut, your videos are always informative and humerous, you make One Cool Photography class teacher. I have been developing film since 1967 Junior High School Photography class, but have never tried Wet Plate, but plant too, given that I own two Kodak 3A cameras that are designed for glass plate, Cut Film and film rolls, Photography.
Great videos Borut!! I'm now (a very, very young!!) 68, and have done photography (starting with a jumble sale box camera), on and off, all my life. Bought a 4mp Canon Powershot G2 in 2002, and never upgraded - nice little camera actually!! Now I've 'rebuilt' my darkroom, and loving the whole process again!! End game is to do alternative / historical processes, which I tried out during my 3 year photo course at Derby University in the early 1980's. As you rightly say, Ink Jet is just Ink Jet, whereas a 'real' photograph is a real and wonderful object, that can have real aesthetic and monetary value. Your videos are a great inspiration - please keep up the good work!! Thank you!!
This is absolutely insane, amazing work, and amazing work to video all of it so well. I have never seen anything like that glass plate carbon print. Thanks!
I love the carbon print. Stunning.
I like the depth of the Ambrotype. The Carbon print has great microcontrast and dynamic range, and rendering of the fine vine details on the branches is excellent. Thanks for taking the time to video your process.
You, sir, are a badass.
You rock! My new hero! Just started this addiction, we'll see where it goes.
Keep making the videos, best informative entertainment on the internet. Thanks, really appreciate your posting this.
My congratulations, you do a fantastic job, I enjoy it. I watch you videos in Brazil and I love it.
+luis tavares Uau, Brazil? Thank you, I have in mind new work and videos. Seat tight ;-)
Thank you I am just a beginer photographer in digital format. THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH!!!
One of my all time favourite videos of yours. I think I've watched this ten times now! :)
Uau! That gives me energy to finish today's vlog. It will not be poetic though, didactic...
Topshit Photography sounds good!! Looking forward to it Borut :)
Woah the quality of your photos is amazing!!! I dont think i could pick a favourite of the three
I agree! Actually they work best together as a "triptych".
nice video i enjoyed it.. cheers Borut!
oh yes and i prefer the ambrotype.. so glossy with nice contrast!
Have you ever used a diferent spray paint color? I'm curious about the result!
the process looks fun :) beautiful work!
Borut, I’m curious as to how or if you prepared your glass to receive the carbon transfer?
Here is a follow up post on the work I've started in this video.
wp.me/p1EuY-2pC
Brilliant. Thank you for your hard work and talent. Peace.
On what support do you pour carbon ? Plastic ? Without gelatin ?
Wonderful, as usual. Thank you.
Excellent. I love them all.
OMG a Photographer with a sense of humor!!!! You're hilarious!!! Not a bad photographer either ;)
Amazing, really impressive
Hi, thank you so much for this video. Your pictures are stunning!! Can I ask you what is the solution you use to reveal your ambrotype, is it an iron sulfate solution? What concentration do you use? Thanks again!
Yes, ferrosulfate 5gr, 8ml acidic acid, 5ml alcohol into 100ml of destiled water.
@@BorutPeterlinPhotography Thank you for sharing :)
I do a lot of inkjet printing, but I'd like to get started in ambrotype photography. Could you recommend a course or list just what I'll need to get started? (I don't even have a large-format camera yet.) Thanks.
Mark Osterman 's workshops at George Eastman house, his manual at collodion.Org or send me a pm if you're from EU
The Ambrotype had dramatically less detail in the shadow side of the tree. Is that just a difference in the exposure the Ambrotype was given or do Ambrotypes always lack shadow detail?
williaty excellent remark! Yes, ambrotypes always have less details in shadows and a fraction of dynamic range in comparison to negatives. My estimate is that ambrotype has 2EV dynamic range in comparison to the negative that has about 7.
Although collodion photography is not sensitive to yellow, red and low sensitiveness to green spectrum of light, which is very important in understanding dynamic tonality range and quality of light.
The difference of dynamic range between ambrotype and negative comes from the way we view them. Ambrotype is viewed as a print, so we see the light that is reflected from the surface of glass plate. Negative is viewed against the light and we see the light transmitting through all the layers of silver. Ambrotype must have very limited amount of silver on the plate, otherwise it's just grayish smudge of silver, because viewed as reflective image.
I hope that makes sense. It's very easy to understand if you see the both mediums in person. The difference in dynamic range is greater than comparing polaroid and a negative!
just inkjet? what about chromira? dye sub?
Does the black spray paint work as well as ashphaltan material? The varnish protects the emulsion from the paint? Archival? Truly amazing and beautiful work Borut. Very inspiring.
asphaltic paint is better. Either way the paint is on the back of the plate, on the opposite side of the collodion, so if the acrylic paint cracks, it just needs to be backed with black again.
thx!
ok...I thought you painted the collodion side, my mistake..so with painting you cannot reverse the image/glass back to the right orientation....Thanks for your help Borut.
This is art! love it
Borut ever worry that by the time you set up your camera 2 km off the hightway and set up your shot your landrover, the tent and everything else will have been stolen? Or get your camera stolen when your in the tent? Slovenia must be safter than Canada. Seems you hiked very far away to get the picture. How long do you hav 10-15 minutes with wet plate?
Slovenia is one of the safest countries. I don't even lock my house. Or I lock it and I'm leaving keys in the lock so whoever comes by, knows that I'm not at home and will come back later. It's true, ha, ha...
Once I forgot my camera in the centre of my town. I forgot it because I was entertaining a group of people and just forgot that I wasn't shooting in the studio, but behind the house. Anyway two hours later I've received a phone call of a neighbour that my camera is still outside and it's getting late, so he guessed correctly that I have forgotten it.
In bigger cities I don't shoot that often, but yes, I am concerned about it, but until now, nothing happened (knock on wood)
Wow, don't lock your house, that sounds so nice. Got to visit someday for a workshop and just to see the country and meet the people. The camera story is great. No wonder you love your country so much....and YOUR FORREST. Thanks again.
Carbon print is my favorite
+osbornephoto1955 yep, mine too :)
You kick topshit ass! Love your work, I want to learn!
Well, I can say only wow!
bravo... again!
I admire you
svaka cast
Tu es un génie !
Topshit is appropriate
I am so inspired by this
Top shit Borut👍
Very cool to see someone who actually gives a shit about his craft in this lazy point and shoot digital world.
süper :)
Why not invest in a pair of fly fisherman’s waders, so you only need to wet the plates instead of the plates and your feet.
Albumin is better!
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