{"id":3933,"date":"2019-07-15T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:48:32","slug":"wet-plate-collodion-why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3933","title":{"rendered":"Wet plate collodion: Why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no doubt that making wet plate collodion photographs is a faff. I can make an image with my phone in just a few seconds. Setting up the darkroom, making a wet plate photo then packing everything away again is measured in hours.  When we principally consume images on small screens the whole wet plate collodion process is just a crazy thing to do. I bother to do it because an ambrotype or tintype is a tangible, original, artifact with intrinsic meaning beyond what is conveyed by the image alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Tangible<\/strong>  &#8211; Perceptible by touch, accessible to experience.<\/li><li><strong>Original<\/strong> &#8211; Not a copy. Created personally by an artist. <\/li><li><strong>Artifact<\/strong> &#8211; An object made by a human being.<\/li><li><strong>Intrinsic <\/strong>&#8211; Belonging naturally to the object itself.<\/li><li><strong>Meaning<\/strong> &#8211; Communicating something that isn&#8217;t directly expressed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If I want to make images mainly to share on-line or even print I use a digital camera or modern film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190714_112223-e1563190957659-998x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190714_112223-e1563190957659-998x1024.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190714_112223-e1563190957659-624x640.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190714_112223-e1563190957659-768x788.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><figcaption>Sorting my wet plate stuff<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCF0013-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCF0013-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCF0013-460x640.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCF0013-768x1068.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><figcaption>Demetra. My first half plate ambrotype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that making wet plate collodion photographs is a faff. I can make an image with my phone in just a few seconds. Setting up the darkroom, making a wet plate photo then packing everything away again is measured in hours. When we principally consume images on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}