Monday, April 7, 2014 at 12:09 This is the first (official) video for the show. It's on making and maintaining the silver bath. There's a lot more to come on the silver bath, at least two more videos, this video will get you started on the basics. It's 41 minutes long, grab a cup of coffee and check it out.
Thanks!
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:08 I'm starting this series of videos on the technical, conceptual, and philisophical topics in historic photographic processes. I'm going to start with the wet collodion process and move on from there.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 4:11 Last Friday, I received a package from The Getty Institute. It contained information about my photographs I submitted for their analysis and collection for the project, "Preserving the Chemical Photography Era".
It's packed with information about the Wet Plate Collodion images I submitted. There's a lot of "geeky" scientific stuff (Get Your Geek On!). I'm going to make some more images for them - they've asked for some specific things to help them with their research and moreover, for future generations. I believe that there will be a time, in the not-to-distance future, when "photo students" won't know what film is, let alone a process like Wet Plate Collodion. It makes me feel honored to be a part of this project!
The Getty paper. 
Analysis on my Collodion photographs 
Details of the analysis at the Getty.
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:47 Enjoy! Remember, you need a username and password to access the videos.
The three fixers - KCN, Ammonium Thiosulfate (RF), Sodium Thiosulfate (Hypo).
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:05 I have a couple of really important goals that I want to accomplish in the next few months. One of them is to make work for my project, exhibition and book.
I thought I would get creative with my time and my commitments. We are leaving Thursday for ten days and wanted to post the October Video Podcast on Chemical Pictures before we left. I also had an image in mind that I've wanted to make for a few weeks. I thought, why not make a few plates, create an image for my project and cover the podcast, too? So that's what I did today.
These image are about numbers, labeling, skulls & sockets, history, evilness, genetics and otherness. I distressed plate #3 a little bit. I varnished it shortly after making this copy and it cleaned up quite a bit - I was a little disappointed about that but I still like the image. I look so different in each image, it trips me out a wee bit.
It took four plates to get two that I really like.
"Self Portrait #3 - Jewish DNA" - 8"x10" Alumitype - Viernheim, Germany 2009 
Self Portrait #1 With Y-DNA Sequence Backwards (written by hand)
