The making of:"too long exposure"

A while ago I contacted Shane Balkowitsch who is hosting the Mask Series.
I volunteered to make a plate also.

For this series about 150 wet platers from all over the world
are using a gas mask in their work.
More about this series you can find at the special weblog:
http://wetplatemaskseries.com/

 

It took me a while planning the ideas how to make this plate.

As usual my car was fully loaded.
This time including a boxed skeleton!
After setting up all the needed equipment I realized that I forgot to take my
special box holding unused clean plates
...................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

That's THE worst nightmare which can happen.

In one of my boxes I only had 2 dibond plates which
I once received for testing.
So that was the only material available for the moment.
The protective foil was leaving some residue so I still

had to clean them with alcohol and water.

Doing this in the field is always a pain the ass
as cleaning might cause flawswhich of course happened.

But with some failures we managed to make a
decent plate which will be send to the US.


For the making of video click : HERE

 

"Too long exposure"
26x26 ambrotype made on dibond
7 seconds exposure time
Dallmeyer 3A at f8