2013 – My Year In Photographs – Part VII: Wetplate Photography
December 31st, 2013 • Wetplate Photography, Year End Updates
2013 was finally the first year after many years of wanting to get into wetplate photography that I actually was able to start doing it. I was extremely lucky to be able to buy all of Robert Maxwell’s (the famed portrait photographers) wetplate gear from him before he moved from LA back to NY. This is a sampling of some of the wetplate work I created this past year. I look forward to being able to do MUCH MORE this coming year. It’s an incredible process and I’ve got a special ‘surprise’ project in the works. I can’t wait until it’s ready for the world to see! In the meantime here is some of the work I created in 2013.
Test shots of Osama and I
There are seven sets of chemicals involved in this process and each of them needs to be mixed by hand. I’ve become a chemist!
Wet chemicals on plates of black glass.
What it looks like behind the camera.
Putting a plate of glass into the camera with the wet chemicals on it. Ready, set, shoot!