Wet Plate Collodion Photography With Simon Colgan

In this video i interview Simon Colgan who is one of the few people in Cornwall that shoot wet plate collodion photography. Simon was my college teacher when i was on the photography course and he changed my view on photography and is the reason i got into film photography, when i was tasked to create a multimedia piece for my 'people and passions' project at Falmouth University i knew he would be a perfect fit.
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[@formicapple2]

Just returned fro my photographic society. The guest was talking and demonstrating this. Fascinating. Think I’ll stick with my dslr though.

[@taranspictures]

I do want to try it soon by myself but it seems so difficult

[@formicapple2]

@@taranspictures got to be very careful with the chemicals, though. They will kill you if you misuse them.

[@taranspictures]

Don't want that to happen haha

[@Balkowitsch]

nice to see

[@taranspictures]

Was a fun video to make

[@Chiaroscuro1991]

Very nice video. I am wondering what are the solids floating in your fixing bath? In regards to your red camera, yes the Dubroni was a wet collodion camera from the 19th century that not only had a body made with amber glass to view the progress of development, but the chemicals were also poured into the camera itself to sensitize with silver nitrate, develop with either ferrous sulfate or pyrogallic acid .. and then water to remove the developer before the plate was exposed to daylight. Cheers from Rochester, NY Scully & Osterman

[@taranspictures]

Hi there thanks for the comment, the parts that were floating in the fixing bath were old fixing chemicals that had dried up as Simon had not used done the process for some time at that point