Boy does 8x10 Ambrotypes seem easy after doing 16x20s! Maybe some day 16x20s will seem easy after doing 35x35. Those super big plates are a long way away thou.
Here
is some of today's doll stuff, think I am getting the exposure down a
bit, closed the brass lens way down to its smallest aperture, with the
same amount of flash. One of the easier parts of working in a studio is
that you can control the light. In the field light is constantly
evolving.