Cyanotypes lab at Translight Photography/CMG

Monday Oct 15 was a lab day for my History of Photography Class (At New York Film Academy it's called "Ways of Seeing"). We went to the Brewery, the largest Artist's Colony in LA and maybe even the world, to do some Cyanotype Printing. At CMG Photography, a rental lab formerly known as Translight Color, we set up the darkroom and got busy makng prints. Cyanotypes are a simple Iron and water based photographic process invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842. The tones are rendered in beautiful shades of Prussian Blue, and they are simple and easy to make.

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