I had a wet plate date with a new model on Monday...WHEEEE!!! so much fun! Oh how much I love making plates. Shooting plates is nothing like shooting film. I don't approach it the same way, I don't plan for it the same way, my expectations are different, and the experience is different. I sometimes think, "I really SHOULD do more film, especially since I teach film photography." But when I make plans to shoot, it is always plates. Over the break, I didn't have a model so I did some random flowers.
Because I had to have the plates. I don't really do florals pix, but they're pretty, right? So ok. Here is one of my flower plates:
Anyhow, after much primping and arranging, we are finally ready to create the first plate!! I pull on my blue nitrile gloves, grab a plate, and head out to the porch to pour.
Pour . . .
uh.
Pour NOTHING, as the cooler containing the collodion had been stolen off my porch.
:( :( :(
But we were not to be stopped. And we decided to bust out the film cameras and do the shoot anyway. Here is a shot from Monday.
I loved working with Laura. She was sorta up for anything, and I expected her to be shy but she really wasn't. Anyhow, it feels really good that we didn't let a set-back hamper our flow, and she said she would be happy to come back and do plates sometime.
