Would have to guess this is with a period lens...Yes? Love the way the sharp focus ends right about her ears. Scootermm and I discussed this while I was testing the new RR lens on Monday, how the Avedon works had that same sharp focus, and the BAM!! it would go soft. Not a critque, but was the plate drying out? Love the look of tin-types, just resisting the desire to go there, still to much learn about pd printing for now.
Very nice series. I'm initially attracted to them because of my interest in wetplate but I also love the theme here. I especially like your portraits (my favorite is Dion) but the cross and tools also are exquisite. The separation of the people or objects from the backgrounds works extremely well in this series.
Great story BTW about the bottle of change.
I imagine your wife will cherish these for many, many years.
No giagantic plates yet. Do have a couple of big palladium prints I am jazzed about though. Am hooked on that format regardless of the amount of work it takes.
Photomc,
The lens was a Kodak Ektar shot wide open. I've enjoyed how it falls off nicely. In this image it was helped by ever so slight movement by my wife over the long exposure. The darkness I think you are referring to in the corners isn't the plate drying out but instead for reasons unexplained by my knowledge set the collodion wouldn't adhere to the japaning (sp) process there. I had a batch of plates where that happened quite a bit it would just roll off on those spots regardless of how I tried to make it stick. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help in that regard. The process is so haphazard and hard to troubleshoot though that there is a serendipty that I enjoy.
Beautiful work. Wonder if you know about the Asheville group, F32? We would love to have you join us if the event fits.... we meet 2nd Wed of every month at Office Environments ... on the WEB at : http://www.f32nc.com/
Keep up the big work..... surely there is a place in heaven for us big neg guys!