In this fast paced world where everyone wants everything and anything immediately, people just don’t have time to learn things. That’s why I’ve put together this handy little how-to guide for learning the fine art of wet plating. Instead of spending your valuable time in a workshop being taught the craft by a professional you can learn everything you need to know FOR FREE in this quick, handy, looping tutorial.
For those interested these are all the different steps demonstrated in the 7 second Vine.
- Peel plastic
- Pour collodion
- Drip collodion back into bottle
- Sensitize plate in silver nitrate bath
- Wait
- Remove plate from path
- Dry Plate
- Put plate in holder
- Put dark slide in holder
- Put plate holder in camera
- Remove dark slide
- TAKE PHOTO
- Insert darkslide
- Back to darkroom, remove plate from holder
- Pour small amount of developer
- Pour large amount of water
- Fix in daylight
- Done.
And for those genuinely interested in learning how to wetplate, please contact a professional in your area and sign up for a one to one workshop.
NB. Dear other wet plate collodion practitioners. This is intended as a joke and merely demonstrates how ridiculous the notion of a quick tutorial can be. If you run courses please feel free to comment below and I will happily include your link in the description.
Phogotraphy 
Everyone knows you cannot learn wetplate in 7 seconds – it takes at least 25 seconds!
I have worked in professional film and analogue photograph for 50 years, three years at college before I started and thousands of hours in the darkroom – but I took a two day course a couple of years ago with John Brewer to learn about wet plate and have been practising ever since.
I believe it is really essential to learn from a professional in a good workshop – hands on and have them available to look at your mistakes, help by email and comment one-to-one.
John runs workshopswith me now at our place in the South of France http://villaroquette.com/photography_workshops/collodion-workshop/
If you stay with us I am always working in the darkroom or in my mobile wetplate wagon in the countryside – all are welcome to tag along.
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Check us out for everything Analog including five days of this wonderful process!! Thanks and you will love the location!
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I like it Sam. I hope nobody thinks this vid is a substitute for real tuition, but you never know.
Wet plate workshops / tutorials available as always at http://www.fourtoes.co.uk
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