Second UCA Collodion Demo - by popular demand. 19th March 2015

As the first demo day was 100% oversubscribed I really had no choice but to run another one! This was every bit as enjoyable as the first with some great images. We made quarter and half-plate ambrotypes on the multi-format plate camera - Thanks again to Greg Jones for doing lots of the unglamorous jobs which made it all run so well - and thanks to all those of you who took part.

Tomm with his beautiful little Sanderson 1/4 plate camera. - which he later used to make an ambrotype.

There was a definite Julia Margaret Cameron theme to today's images...

Mim definitely 'channeling' Julia Margaret Cameron.

This one was made by Tomm on his Sanderson. Interesting to see the different look generated by this lens.

Rather a lot of technical defects in this one, but collodion defects are often so beautiful nobody minds too much.

(most of) UCA Collodion group 19.3.15. "Mim woz 'ere"...!

As with the 9th March session I'll make proper scans and prints and display the images in a proper show in G30 later in the year. - Peter.

First Collodion demo at UCA

We ran the first wet-plate collodion demo day at UCA on Monday 9th March.  I'll update this into a full report later (the event was massively oversubscribed so we're doing it all again next week) but meantime here are the images made by those who took part. Thanks to you all for your enthusiasm and entering into the spirit of the portraits so well. Special thanks to Annie for bringing such good props!

These are all quarter-plate ambrotypes (collodion on glass) at exposures of between 20 and 80 seconds...

Everybody entered into the spirit of the thing!

Dave has officially the Best Beard For WetPlate in UCA.

I'll make high definition scans available to you all and once we've exhibited the original ambrotypes in an exhibition in G30 you can all keep your portraits.  - Peter.

Don't forget to see the Demo 2 pictures from 19th March too!