{"id":3983,"date":"2019-09-01T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2019-09-01T23:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:22:48","slug":"accidental-collodion-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3983","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Collodion Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made a disappointing ambrotype by pointing my half-plate, wet-plate camera out of the window. I was just doing a test shot to see how the collodion behaved. After two exposures it was still way over exposed\/developed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_205451-752x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_205451-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_205451-470x640.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_205451-768x1045.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><figcaption>Disappointing Ambrotype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But then this evening I held it up to the light and realised I&#8217;d made quite a nice negative. It certainly looked like something that would print on normal paper. So I photographed it and inverted it digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/side_by_side-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/side_by_side-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/side_by_side-640x443.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/side_by_side-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/side_by_side.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Digital conversion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve not been that impressed when people have talked about how high resolution wet-plate is but this seems amazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCF0108-Edit-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCF0108-Edit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCF0108-Edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCF0108-Edit-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCF0108-Edit-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>As close as I can get with a macro lens on the digital camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had thought that producing negatives for printing on modern paper would be hard and involve multiple steps but it seems that it is quite straight forward. You just need to expose them more! I&#8217;ll have to have a go at doing some contact prints and enlargements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a disappointing ambrotype by pointing my half-plate, wet-plate camera out of the window. I was just doing a test shot to see how the collodion behaved. After two exposures it was still way over exposed\/developed. 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