This comes from not sleeping. I was up in the middle of the night and ended up on YouTube photography tutorials. I came across one that talked about creating a collodian style image using Photoshop. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auk3Xw2er3c ).
I have been wanting to try something like this for awhile now. I worked with alternative processes before, specifically palladium and cyanotype. I have always enjoyed getting more involved with physical printing but have become lazy with digital. This collodian style process is a good stop gap for that until I get my act together and set up a darkroom again.
Nice effect you've created. I did cyanotype contact photography many years ago but gave it up when I had toddlers running around and no where that felt really safe enough to be working with the chemicals. I guess, in one way, digital does make us lazy but then it also opens doors to creating effects that I'd never be able to do in the old wet and dirty ways.
@gardencat Thank you a great deal. My digital work has been so very much broadened by being involved with this community. I agree with you about the doors that have been opened with digital, doors that I really never knew existed if I hadn't been here with 365. Since I did start in film there will always be a part of me that needs to be tactile in my work. Real wet plate collidian is a very complicated process so, for now, its probably best that I stay at this level.
@cristie Thank you so kindly. I started out in film I was hooked when I was first introduced to palladium printing. Getting my hands on the negative and watching the magic happen when prints work just feeds my creative soul.
Thank you so very much, truly very thankful. The best thing about this tutorial is that he wasn't concerned if this wasn't a 'true' collodian because the result is his art and his alone. I like that attitude. I do not want to take anything away from those who have the patience (and money) to do the process but this variation on the technique is fun and limitless in experimentation.
January 30th, 2021
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@linnypinny Thank you so very much.
Thank you so very much, truly very thankful. The best thing about this tutorial is that he wasn't concerned if this wasn't a 'true' collodian because the result is his art and his alone. I like that attitude. I do not want to take anything away from those who have the patience (and money) to do the process but this variation on the technique is fun and limitless in experimentation.