This was fun.

Four of the cameras we used this weekend on the Wet Plate course. The antithesis of digital photography and great fun.

[Eeva]

So cool!

[Annie D]

fabulous image - must have been great fun and a wonderful learning experience

[Nancy]

Wow..impressive..love focus and blur gives a great capture...sounds interesting!

[Rachel]

This is so cool and must have been a fascinating course. Does it mean you are now going to invest in new equipment?

[Jani M]

ooo awesome!

[Krista Marson]

Someday in my future I would love to learn this stuff like you're doing. I'm very jealous. Thanx for the link to that photographer suggestion you gave me. You're right, I think the artist's work to be incredible and evocative.

[Pete]

I have fond memories of this from my youth - great fun - I'm envious!

[Pat Knowles]

Must have been a fascinating learning curve.......terrific old cameras!

[Jocasta]

@roseolivia No - think I'll stick with digital but I'm going to have another go at it. Think you'll like these Wet Plate photos. http://www.isamarcelli.com/en/accueil.html

[Call me Joe]

Beautiful vintage cameras- great capture:)

[Jo]

That does sound like fun and I love the way the images look, very appealing, where was the course?

[michael]

Wow, such beautiful objects, definitely works of art. Like thew focus.

[Jocasta]

@jo13 Manchester - he runs one in London as well. If you look at yesterday's photo there's a link to his website and also a Getty video which is pretty much what we learnt. We were just 4 whereas London is 6 but his wife works with him in London.

[Jocasta]

@jo13 Take a look at this website - amazing work. I only managed 5 'successful' plates all weekend. http://www.isamarcelli.com/en/accueil.html

[Penny Price]

How fab.

These guys look like they are lining up for a dating show with Wall-e!

[Kim]

Great shot, I love how they are on modern tripods

[Jennifer]

Love the old cameras with the new tripods! Bet that was great fun. Nice pic, love the focus here.

[Paula W]

That must have been so interesting. I also love the contrast between those wonderful old cameras and shiny modern tripods! I'm impressed that the mounts were compatable.

[Paula W]

*Compatible (spelling's all over the place this evening!!)

[Margaret Obey]

Great capture, hope you had a great time

[Taffy]

Very cool -- so fun to see them all together looking out at us.

[Rachel]

@jocasta Thank you for the link, amazing images, absolutely love that style :-)

[Marloes]

Wow, that must have been an awesome experience!

[Bill Fenske]

Very cool, I'll bet that was fun.

[Arthur Loosley]

So nostalgic and thank you for sharing! This was once my life and the experience of going through such a lengthy process for every shot makes me appreciate how quick and easy it is today to shoot a burst and choose the best and then have the choice of post-processing in so many more ways than we ever imagined then. I must say though, that every step of the old b&w plate days still goes through my mind every time I press the button, which makes the new fancy names used in the digital software easier to understand. Good luck with your entry. FAV !into "real" photography.

[Rachel Withey]

Fantastic shot. The course sounds a lot of fun - might need to put that on my wish list

[mukesh]

Fantastic shot Jocasta... I really want to do the challenge u gave me yesterday., since you are having lensbaby, i would like to give u a challenge related with that...please do some creative shot with that..is it okay for you..please let me know...

[Jocasta]

@wordpixman Hi - nice to meet you and especially to meet someone who was creating photos in such a time consuming way on a daily basis. Really quite difficult to imagine now that we're all so used to digital photography. I had a darkroom in the 1980s and developed black and white film.
The wet plate course was fascinating - wow what a long process - the antithesis of everything digital. However, I love digital and I love the digital processing to.

[Jocasta]

@mukeshpapd Thanks for your challenge.