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>they seem to be recent pictures which have been photoshoped to look like glass plates: If you click Tomas's name and scroll down some you see on his profile "
by ryanmercer 4y ago
>they seem to be recent pictures which have been photoshoped to look like glass plates:
If you click Tomas's name and scroll down some you see on his profile "Photographer Tomas van Houtryve captured the 19th-century grotesques, or chimeras, with 19th-century equipment: under a dark cloak, on glass plates, with a wooden camera he picked up in a Paris antique shop."
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photographer/tomas-van-houtryve https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photographer/tomas-van-...
He's a modern Belgian documentary photographer using period equipment.
- RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y agoThanks for figuring that out! Now further questions arise: Did he artificially age the glass plates? Because the damage of the photo layer at the edges would normally be due to aging? How would you even age them artificially like that? Also, where do you obtain fresh, unused glass plates nowadays? I have a suitable camera but no plates! :)
- ryanmercer 4y agoI have no clue about the process but if I had to guess I imagine it has something to do with the chemicals not being evenly distributed either by inexperience, some sort of mask used before chemical exposure to achieve the effect, or the process is just prone to doing that.
- jonah 4y agoThe process is just prone to doing that. It's a combination of things - uneven application of the likely hand applied chemical coating, handling the plates by the edges while loading and processing, unevenness of the metal frame surrounding the plate in the camera, older lenses which had vignetting and lower sharpness at the edges, processing chemicals seeping into the edges of the coating, etc etc.
- jonah 4y agoYou can do an internet search for plates for your particular size or model of camera. They're probably out there.
- Palomides 4y agoj lane dry plates https://www.pictoriographica.com/dry-plate-blog https://www.pictoriographica.com/dry-plate-blog
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- mvuijlst 4y agoShort film here: https://vimeo.com/699756494?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=2268306 https://vimeo.com/699756494?embedded=true&source=video_title...