That was genuinely fascinating. With antique photos I've often thought, that the neutral gaze made it seem like staring. If you stare at someone, and they stare back, you form a bond. I get that feeling more from the closer-up photo.
I've been working with wet plate collodion for 16 years now. It's a wonderful process. Collodion is sensitive to UV so sunscreen blocks that light from reflecting. I once shot an image of a friend in 19th century attire who had put sunscreen on her hands just before posing. In the final image her hands were black. But it turned out to be a very cool effect as it looks like she's wearing thin, ultra-tight black leather gloves, which worked well with her black dress and hat. It worked in that specific image but had she put it on her face the image would have been ruined.
12:42 it’s unbelievably beautiful! Both you and the pictures! And I also like how when you speak the real language that you speak, I can catch those words that I wouldn’t learn like normally. Like that word you said “palpable”. Hey… do you know what these pictures reminded me of? Beyoncé “formation” video. Like these pictures are alive, don’t you think so? They like contain longer period of time that the pictures that we are used to. More of “Curie” psychedelic angle. With floating tables, and those weird radioactive home heaters… with drugs being legal, and some alternative sounds like Tesla. you know steampunk. What do you think about that? 🤩 Do you know who else popularized this type of pictures (people also use special type of zoom optical on their cameras for that effect). The band named ic3peak have you heard of them? Them old pictures. People in front of their houses 🎉❤
The freckles and sun screen prohibition could mean that the chemicals are sensitive to UV light. So cool to see the picture turning to positive. Brought back polaroid times, vocation with my parants in middle school.
Yes, that was interesting. Now I am wondering what a photo looks like if they wear sun-screen. Probably all washed out, I imagine. Or the opposite, IDK.
It's so nice to hear your voice again.The sweater suits you so much 🙂 Your picture is so beatiful.İt should be exhibited in the museum as the most beautiful woman's picture in history Mona Barbara😅😍
Incredible. So intimate, and the anticipation is indeed exciting. Used to take family photos in studio, but in the age of camera phone is a now a rare experience. Wonderful vid!
So cool, and I actually like the close up picture more! Kind of shocking to see the photographer handling a solution that contains sulphuric acid with no gloves 😂 Upon rewatch, does your shirt at the end say Croatoan 🧐 That’s awesome, where’d you get it?
The number of visible freckles is surprising. While doing the prep video, when you are not wearing sunscreen, you can't see them at all. Compare the video at 5:54 to the photo shown at 11:00. Modern video camera is somehow showing less detail than a 150 year old camera?
I think it's just something specific about the tintype camera. It shows more freckles than you see with the naked eye--in person I do not look like I have that many freckles!
Привет!) На Российском канале еще будут выходить видео? Не давно нашел твой канал, было интересно смотреть, но заметил, что новых видео давно нет, очень жаль.
