Quote: Carl Sagon (Astronomer, Scientist)

 

Good Art!

I have found I like to feel the image more now. What feels best is the right choice. So I try over and under exposure, I try different formats, sequences of pics, different compositions different lens. When you think about it, good art has no rules. It is best to just feel yourself through it. Follow your creative and artistic heart. 

This last week I used my 11x14, 14x14 Chamonix for the first time. I struggled to find compositions I liked when I used a lens with full coverage (450mm), so I went with wider lens that did not cover the whole plate. Those images just felt better to me. I am thinking of doing that more and more with exposure and tonality now. Letting AMBROTOS KANATA be a very personally felt thing. Follow my heart and not be to rigid in technical perfection. More Sally Mann and less Ansel Adams so to speak!

Overexposed, but you get the idea.

Sunday in my Cemetary!

 Forgot my food and my water but am having fun making ambrotypes anyway. Yesterday was world wet plate day!!! I am always a bit off with organized events, tests and teaching methods. Always been a bit of a lone wolf. Oh well, made Ambros the day before and the day after the rest of the world.

Collodion a bit funky, over exposed first plate but we are on our way. Am in the cemetery I will EVENTUALLY be buried in. This monument is maybe 150 meters from my grave. I can see dads graf3, next to ours, from the tripod position.

Monument Link, from Evergreen Cemetary.

https://www.davidmurrayarchitect.ca/cemetery-monument/

BEAST table in action

See link for Monument

The lovely BEAST and FREDDY the darkroom trailer!

Reward Day

Having a reward day today. Trying to make 14x14 inch ambrotypes at an Edmonton cemetery. Late start so pushing it a bit. Will go out Sunday as well. Love the new BEAST truck.

Lots of firsts today.

- First time using the 14x14 Chamonix camera

- First time using the 14x14 wet plate holder

- First time using the 16x20 fixer tank.

-First time u am using my cheap Russian 210mm lens.

- Second time using the BEAST to transport the darkroom trailer.

Ambrotypes Ahead!

 

Postponed Again!

 

Stories

Living a life of stories is underrated! Make sure you have yours before you go!!!

Take Another Shot

 

Quote: Salman Rushdie

 

Tack Boxes for AMBROTOS KANATA

Picked up two large, used, horse tack boxes. 36 inches long, 24 inches, 25 inches tall. 3/4 inch plywood with metal supports all round. Each box is 70 lbs and super solid. Cost was $60 CAD for 2. 

I plan to paint them black then place 1 on the flatbed of the beast and 1 in the trailer. The trailer box will be used to safely house my 24x24 inch silver tank. The idea being I will be able to safely travel with the acrylic leak proof tank, secure, inside box WITHOUT removing the silver nitrate.  This would only be done in shooting situations where I need a quick departure.  The silver and the tank should be well protected, inside this wooden safe.