This image has white marks all over the sitter. I am guessing it is because I took the image at the end of a long shoot and should have changed the chemistry, the image I took right after was fine. So it is a bit of mystery the exact cause, as is proving to be […]

So I had a relatively successful day, it is only the 4th time I have shot wetplates. I had a particularly lovely sitter and somehow everything was working…Except it wasn’t! It was a very hot day and I had the collodion out in the sun (big mistake) result = goopy collodion. So I made a […]

  So I have created several plates and much to my horror and dismay have realised I didn’t leave some of them in the fixer for long enough. There is a positive side to this, I was able to watch the deterioration of one image which was very interesting. The downside of course, I lost […]

The first person I tried to shoot sat for a full day and I had no luck. I felt abject and despondent. Maybe I’m not cut out for this? A whole day wasted and smug blank glass plates … I  finally realised that the filtered sunlight coming through the window didn’t contain enough UV light. […]