Wet Plate Collodion Workshop
A short video of me taking a portrait of Carl Radford during a wet plate collodion workshop last summer.
Behind the scenes workshop video
Sarah Kathleen Page, a 1st year photography student of mine recently made this behind the scenes video of a one day large format camera workshop. When I saw it it totally blew me away, after only a few months of study Sarah and the group as a whole are producing some amazing photography and HDSLR video work!
Check out Sarah’s video and head on over to her website to see more of her work.
The Morning After
New Years Day wet plate collodion portrait.
New year day was supposed to be bright and sunny with a dash of uv. Unfortunatly it turned out to be a bit of a wet squid, not the best weather for an outdoor wet plate collodion shoot. I suppose I could have set up in the studio with the intermit lights but to be honest we had already started hitting the cocktails and so once I had set everything up we sort of ran out of steam. So with a grim over cats day resulting in a 15 second exposure I exposed a single plate and then settled into an afternoon of telly and cocktails with my old mate richard.
Here is the plate. Taken with the new 8 inch Taylor & Hobson brass lens at f4.5 on the Tachihara full plate camera with the half plate back.
Its a lovely brass lens that now sits in-between my Dallmeyer and the Goerz red dot.
Camra 2011 feature in Fuzion Magazine issue 4
My recent artist in residency at camera 2001 has been featured in Fuzion Magazine issue.
Wet Plate COllodion self portrait
last Sunday I spent the afternoon in the darkroom and studio at Clear View House. Continue Reading →
Photography workshops
The road to Clear View house and studio.
New 1 day and 3 day workshops planned. Two one day workshops planned for December. Continue Reading →
Camra 2011, Nottingham Beer festival
I was honoured recently to be given the opportunity to be the first ever artist in residence at the 2011 Nottingham beer festival held at Nottingham Castle. Continue Reading →
Wet plate collodion at Clear View Studio
One of the wet plate collodion images I took today in the Courtyard at Clear View studio.
Nottingham Beer Festival
Great weather today! I took the opportunity to make a couple of plates Continue Reading →
Just had it confirmed! I will be doing a 3 day wet plate collodion and analog shoot at the Nottingham Beer festival. Continue Reading →
The Collodion Sessions
Wet Plate Collodion. 7 seconds at 5.6 with a Toyo 5×4 in the studio with lighting. Taken at Clear View Studio.
Issue 3 of Fuzion photography magazine is now live
Issue 3 of Fuzion photography magazine is now live on the fusion webiste.
Wet Plate Collodion Session
With such a lovely Sunny day I decided to take a break from renovating the studio, set up the Tachihara with the half plate back
Wet Plate Collodion
FInally received all the collodion chemicals and silver box. Made up the silver Bath last night, excited it over night and started out making some 5×4 plates for practice. Continue Reading →
The Caffenol Sessions
Carla, Clear View House, 2011.
Another Medium and Large format analog session was held at Clear View house and studio on Saturday.
goerz lens on the big boy
The freshly installed Goerz APO Red Dot in the 8.5×15 large format plate camera.
8.5×15 inch Land Camera
The 8.5×15 inch Land Camera has arrived at Clear View Studio. All the way from India!
Its in mint condition, all I had to do was to cut a custom mount to fit the Goerz lens, which is an amazing piece of glass.
This camera will sit nicely alongside the 5×4 and quarter plate cameras at the studio at Clear View.
The big boy will be used mainly for wet plate collodion and large paper neg work. Though I am tempted to get some custom film cut for it.
Collodion portrait of Carl Radford
I had the pleasure of meeting Carl Radford recently up in the Lakes. This is one of the portraits I did of him using his full plate camera. Continue Reading →
Harman DP Paper
Another recent test of Harmans DP Paper.
Technical Data:
Camera – Toyo 5×4
Film – Harman DP Paper
Developer – Caffenol
Box Brownie Portraits
A Box Brownie portrait.
Technical info:
Camera – Box Brownie
Film – Harman DP Paper
Developer – Caffenol