Upcoming workshops in Yosemite National Park and Hollywood!

For those interested in learning the Wet Plate Collodion Process, I have two upcoming workshops:
First, in October, a travel workshop at Yosemite National Park in California. We will be walking in the footsteps of the masters! The workshop is for those interested in exploring an antique technology in a place of stunning beauty. Participants of various skill levels are welcome. We will be using half plate ( a little bigger than 4 x 5" ) and 8 x 10" cameras to document places like Half-Dome, Bridal Veil and Glacier Point. Processing will be done on-site in darkroom tents. We will be making tintypes (images on aluminum, actually), ambrotypes (images on glass) as well as glass negatives. This is a messy, smelly, slow process, but the results are very unique and gratifying.
 The itinerary is somewhat flexible, but plan on long days.  The workshop is offered through the Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Hollywood. For more information, please visit the link below.

http://www.ssreg.com/juliadean/classes/classes.asp?courseid=22516&catid=1802

For those interested in individual, one on one tutoring at my studio, please contact me at:
info@allanbarnes.com.

World Wet Plate Day, May 5th 2012

May 5th, 2012: World Wet Plate Collodion Day was also day one of the 15th* Allan Barnes Wet Plate Collodion Workshop! An amazing crop of pictures was the result! Thanks to our amazing assistants Semantha Norris and S.J. Dunbar as well as the Julia Dean Photography Workshops! 
*approximate number. Note: last two pictures were made on day two!
More info on World Wet Plate Day: http://www.wetplateday.org
(World Wet Collodion Day honors the life and work  of Frederick Scott Archer, the British Artist who patented the Wet Plate Collodion Process in 1851. It was the first of many leaps forward in technology that made photography faster, cheaper and easier). 

•                                  Cesar and his 8x10 glass plate of course assistant S.J. Dunbar.

heating the plates for varnishing (above).

              The craggy face of the Maestro, as photographed on 8x10 glass plate by S.J. Dunbar

8 x10 black glass ambrotype by Jennifer Reeser