J. Lane Glass Dry Plates

Vince Lupo said:
Many thanks Phil - I first started in ‘historic techniques’ back in grad school in the ‘90s (platinum-palladium was my favourite, as well as gum bichromate and others) so maybe all those late nights working on them are now paying off. I thank (blame?) the late Pete Christman from the Savannah College of Art and Design for leading me down this road to ruin!
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But it's such a fine road to travel. Keep up the good work.

PF
 
JeffS7444 said:
This is great stuff Vince, but I'm just waiting to see if you get sucked into Daguerreotypes 😛
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Ah don't think that's going to happen anytime soon! I'm still trying to master these dry plates. Tintypes might be possible, but I think the dry plates are as much as I (and my wife!) can handle right now.
 
JeffS7444 said:
This is great stuff Vince, but I'm just waiting to see if you get sucked into Daguerreotypes 😛
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That plate is really magical, almost dream-like. Congratulations!!

And about daguerreotypes & tintypes... I got sucked (almost into both). I say almost because has been a whole year now doing my own tintypes & ambrotypes. I've done a couple of daguerreotypes workshops "only".

The wet plate, once you accumulate all the material and chemicals, is not that difficult nor dangerous to do, although I've gone only once out of my mother's house (where I have all the dark room stuff), so plates are now a bit repetitive, apart from portraits (which is what is most interesting about). The mercurial daguerrotype looks quite more dangerous and expensive to do,but then there's the Becquerel daguerrotypes, that not require bromide nor mercury, both dreadfully dangerous monsters. Then again it's much more less sensitive and it's latitude is abismally flat, so guessing the right exposition is a little miracle. But someday I will try this one, for sure.

Oh, and in the mercurial dag workshop we did 1839 stye selfies 😎. Daguerrotype + monster blinding flash!
Here's mine:

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Sorry for the non-dry plate digression but I was sucked in by others... 🙄😛
 
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