Tintype and Ambrotype - Wet Plate Collodion Work

  I have already written quite a bit about this process, but here's a very quick synopsis.  Wet plate photography was practiced between 1851 and mid 1880s, though in some aspects it survived well into the 20th century.  Each image is made by hand on aluminum or glass plate, which must be coated, sensitized, exposed and processed before collodion layer dries. Final image is unique and is comprised of particles of pure silver.  After varnishing to protect it from oxidation the plate will last hundreds of years.

  I learned plate process in 2013, and since then have dedicated my time to almost no other medium (with exception of daguerreotype).  Be it at studio or while driving across country, I enjoy materializing bits of memory and history, by crafting timeless impressions of silver.  I've taught numerous private and group workshops, and gladly offer those both on location and in my San Diego studio.  Wet plate is also a great medium for a genuinely different photo booth experience for any occasion, and doing that work connects me deeper to the traveling photographers of the past, who immortalized our ancestors in tintypes in our family albums.   

  Here are but a few examples of my work.  


PORTRAITS

Blues Man - Studio Portrait

Gabe - Studio Portrait

Family - Studio Portrait

Jozlynn - Studio Portrait



Couple Portrait at Renaissance Fair


Body Builder


Friends At Adams Ave Fair


Wedding Portrait Session


Engagement Session


Photo Booth 


Music Album Cover Art


Sword Swallower - Studio Portrait


OTHER WORK


Quiet Pond - 4x5in

Abandoned Desert Motel - 4x5in

AZ Petroglyphs - 4x5in

Still With Rhino - 4x5in

Berlin Wall - 4x5in

Vianden Castle - 4x5in
Bruges Horses - 1/4 plate

Eifel Tower - 4x5in

Anza Borego Desert - 4x5in


Anza Borego Desert - 4x5in


By Half Moon Bay - 4x5in


Pines - 4x5in


Self Portrait at Oceanside Drive In - 4x5in


Flowers - 4x5in


Still With Camrea - 4x5in


Imperial Beach Pier - 4x5in


Bat Leaf - 1/6th plate


From San Diego River Series - 4x5in

Olympic National Forest, WA - 8x10in

Grand Tetons National Park - 8x10in

River Root - 8x10in

Glacier National Park - 8x10in

Yosemite Valley - 4x5in




3 comments:

  1. I love your landscape work .. really lovely

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  2. So good to meet you this afternoon in Redwood Park...

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  3. (Xavi Toral) No me canso de ver y leer tu blog :) ......

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