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Dying Thistle
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Went out today between rain storms to clear my head.
Been having some issues with my end of year exhibition and sitting at the pc wasn’t clearing the cobwebs. I’d been fiddling with my Praktica all morning and the most I’d done was clean the lens so went out for a wander. This is one of about 12 shots I took. Its going to be part of my “Within a Mile of Home” project, as, it was within a mile of home :)
Feedback appreciated.
Wet Plate print. Have it on fibre paper now.
nice image. though i wonder if you’d moved a little to the left to get the background from blending in so much would it have been better?
wet plates in a praktica?
collodion is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but don’t have the money to do a course or buy any of the equipment or chemicals necessary…Isabella wrote:
nice image. though i wonder if you’d moved a little to the left to get the background from blending in so much would it have been better?
wet plates in a praktica?
collodion is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but don’t have the money to do a course or buy any of the equipment or chemicals necessary…Well its not exactly Wet Plate :D Im real interested in wet print but like you said its expensive. I know the theory behind it but Ive never gotten to do it partially.
Basically this is a scan taken from my film (developed it here) then loaded into Photoshop where I add the Wet Plate effect with Exposure. Yes, its cheating, but Photoshop is the digital darkroom so, only slightly cheating.
As for the background, it wasnt this blended originally but I burned in the background before scanning, this is print, 3 or 4. When I applied the program it burned it in even more, I wanted the single head to pop out more then the rest, and have some decent negative space to. I get what you mean though, but I think its the edging thats making it a little more noticeable.ah right! nothing wrong with photoshop, i didn’t know one could do that with it!
maybe if you dodged that head a tiny touch it might not blend in so much?
I could kill the background a little, bring the tone down so its not as dark, I see what you mean now :) so it stands out more.
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