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: Amelie and Alchemy
: Phil Bebbington March 01, 2011, 11:15:00 PM
Amelie and Alchemy (http://vimeo.com/14231935)

More wet plate collodion goodness.
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: sapata March 01, 2011, 11:43:53 PM
This is awesome, really like it! and the result is stunning...
One day I'll do wet collodion... I have to :)
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: moominsean March 01, 2011, 11:56:20 PM
yes, this is definitely on my list for the future...great stuff. mark sink does a lot of this now.
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: Ed Wenn March 02, 2011, 01:00:49 AM
Great video. Thanks, Phil.

Sean: I think I started one of those pointless, circular discussions here about Mark Sink's wet plate work a year or two back. Let me dig it up. Anything that pointless is definitely worth a second go-round  ;D ;D
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: Ed Wenn March 02, 2011, 01:05:27 AM
Ah yes, here it is: http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=2397.0 (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=2397.0)
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: calbisu March 02, 2011, 01:13:08 AM
woooaaaahh, respect, and such a beautiful result  :o
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: original_ann March 02, 2011, 01:30:08 AM
I don't think I've met a collodion ambrotype I didn't like.  Great find Phil!  Thanks for sharing!
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: wblati March 02, 2011, 01:51:50 PM
i really like this video!
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: Mojave March 02, 2011, 03:06:45 PM
I love the process, and I love the image, but I am most impressed that he got his little girl to hold still for so long.  ;)
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: Francois March 02, 2011, 03:47:22 PM
That's a really nice video... and so sweet too!
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: chricela March 02, 2011, 09:16:53 PM
beautiful stuff
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: CarlRadford March 03, 2011, 08:17:57 AM
He knows his craft for sure!
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: Andrea. March 03, 2011, 08:36:07 AM
I love W-C work. Not all the images tho. Went and saw Ms Mann's exhibition last year at the photographer's gallery and really didn't take to her work. As has been said before, it should be the image and not just that the practitioner is using an old process.
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: CarlRadford March 03, 2011, 11:09:25 AM
I love W-C work. Not all the images tho. Went and saw Ms Mann's exhibition last year at the photographer's gallery and really didn't take to her work. As has been said before, it should be the image and not just that the practitioner is using an old process.

Completey agree.  Love Sally Mann's Immediate family but struggle with Deep South, All That Remains and some of her portraits.  Check out Quinn Jacobsons work - a man that has gone beyond the process.
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: Phil Bebbington March 03, 2011, 03:38:24 PM
Carl, damn fine work - thank you for the recommendation!
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: Jeff Warden March 03, 2011, 03:55:23 PM
Thanks for the video, Phil.  Fantastic.

You know you're in the deep end of the pool when your next camera purchase has a truck as an accessory.   :D

The result he achieved is excellent.  Oh and I enjoyed watching the cooler roll down the hill.  Patience.   ;)

Jeff
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: Ed Wenn March 03, 2011, 07:55:41 PM
Carl: A very nice summary of my own reaction to the Sally Mann show and our subsequent discussions her eon the forum last year. Thanks also for the tip re the 'new' guy. I'm already looking forward to checking out his oeuvre (ahem!).   :)

Andrea: Ditto. Shame we couldn't meet up when you wuz down here.

J_Warden: I loved your comment about the truck. Too true!!  :D On the 'kids as models' front (something I know you're used to) I find it a stretch taking pics of my kids with my 4x5 field camera (actually it's a challenge taking them with my camera phone sometimes); doing something like this falls under the 'ninja photography' category, but I'd like to see him do it with more than one child. In my experience, two kids are exponentially more difficult to corral than one...and I'm sure some here will say that two are easier to deal with than three....and so on. Anyway, it was still very funny watching the all-too-familiar interplay between photographer and child. And on that tack, there's no question in my mind that Amelie deserves as much credit for the final image as her Dad.
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: Phil Bebbington March 03, 2011, 10:17:34 PM
I have to say, the more I watch footage such as this the more I want do it!
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: Karl March 04, 2011, 12:28:03 AM
I'm going to disagreeable for once. I felt a bit uncomfortable watching him work like that. There was something slightly desperate about it that ruined the viewing of the final image. The results of the process do look beautiful but the real process of him overtly directing a bored child was a mildy disturbing. Kids can be enough of a handful without adding in a truck and the photographic equivalent of a hot potato.
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: johann March 04, 2011, 07:03:05 AM
Great video ! Thanks for sharing.

I don't know if this photographer was already discussed on the board, but here it is again :
Surfer portraits by Joni Sternbach (http://www.jonisternbach.com/gallery_surfers.html) I'm not sure if it exactly the same process, but the results look also amazing with the same quality.
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: calbisu March 04, 2011, 09:01:03 AM
Woooa, Joni Sternbach "surfland" set is incroyable!!! Beauuutiful.
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: CarlRadford March 04, 2011, 10:16:50 AM
Kerik Kouklis - http://www.kerik.com/new/?page_id=154 (http://www.kerik.com/new/?page_id=154)  - particularly Cabinet of Curiosities
Robb Kendrick - http://www.robbkendrick.com/ (http://www.robbkendrick.com/)
Katie Cooke - http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyoka/sets/72157620154361011/show/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyoka/sets/72157620154361011/show/)

I could get boring :)
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: Mojave March 04, 2011, 04:14:52 PM
Ok, I've changed my mind after looking at all of these gorgeous images by all these wet plate photogs. I have got to try this.
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: Mojave March 04, 2011, 04:33:58 PM
Ok, maybe not. The chemicals are scary!!!!
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: CarlRadford March 04, 2011, 05:15:41 PM
Ok, maybe not. The chemicals are scary!!!!

No more scary than selenium etc etc
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: CarlRadford March 04, 2011, 05:51:54 PM
Kristen Hatgi -http://www.kristenhatgi.com/wet1.html
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: wblati March 04, 2011, 06:12:39 PM
really like those collodian images...
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: sapata March 04, 2011, 08:01:53 PM
Kristen Hatgi -http://www.kristenhatgi.com/wet1.html

Incredible work.... :o
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: Mojave March 04, 2011, 09:16:25 PM
No more scary than selenium etc etc

What process uses selenium? And yeah, I still want to try it even though it might kill me. I found an excellent link to write up on how to start the process. That and my Christopher James book will give me a place to start I think. I can at least get some ideas on the materials I will need and maybe start getting them little by little.
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: CarlRadford March 04, 2011, 09:21:11 PM
No more scary than selenium etc etc

What process uses selenium? And yeah, I still want to try it even though it might kill me. I found an excellent link to write up on how to start the process. That and my Christopher James book will give me a place to start I think. I can at least get some ideas on the materials I will need and maybe start getting them little by little.

Contact John Brewer - http://www.johnbrewerphotography.com/ (http://www.johnbrewerphotography.com/) - for supplies.
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: Mojave March 04, 2011, 10:14:43 PM
Thanks Carl!!! Im excited about calling him. Nervous too.  :)
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: calbisu March 04, 2011, 10:58:29 PM
Oh, oh, this is getting serious  :o
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: Ed Wenn March 05, 2011, 01:01:35 AM
I'm going to disagreeable for once. I felt a bit uncomfortable watching him work like that. There was something slightly desperate about it that ruined the viewing of the final image. The results of the process do look beautiful but the real process of him overtly directing a bored child was a mildly disturbing.

Nail. Head. Hit.

This is why I suggested that Amelie deserves some of the credit, but I agree 100% when you say you found it mildly disturbing, Dad  :D