"The Plateling"

by Doctor Dolittle

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Oct 28th 2009
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Easily one of the cutest tin-types I've ever seen in the way that it is only 2x2 inches. The story behind this one is sort of fun:

During my tutorial day with Steve Wilson (the world's nicest wet-plate photographer, I'm convinced), we were postulating on what would happen if we were to load a plastic Holga with a wet-plate negative. My art teacher, Kendall, sacrificed her Holga (it still works quite nicely, actually; the chemicals didn't chew up the plastic) so we could take this, "The Plateling." The exposure time was around 30 seconds, if I remember correctly. Pay no heed to the car in the background.

[Steve's Flickr Can Be Found Here]

I love his spoon picture.

Comments

pur plec loud Says:

it has a positively creepy feel to it

Kiwi Joy Says:

It looks lovely, I wish it was bigger :c

FUNDERFUL Says:

this is all surreal and shit