Wet Plate Portraiture, The Auckland Project

Our friends in photography, Petapixel, reported on The Auckland Project. A collaborative project between Paul Alsop, an alternative process photographer, and Luke White, a commercial photographer, both in New Zealand. Checkout some of the collodion wet plates from the sittings.

Amongst the obstacles to be overcome are, the effective ISO 0.5 of collodial plates, setting up 12,000W of lighting, getting the space (provided by Luke White) to set up a large format camera and temporary darkroom, and the elusory nature of the collodion process.

The story at Petapixel offers a slight variation on the original blog posting.