"Henk Schiffmacher"

Today i had the opportunity to make some pictures of :
 The Dutch King of Tattoo,
Henk Schiffmacher.

Henk Schiffmacher is a tattoo artist, painter, writer, collector, world traveller
 but he also was a photographer for more than 10 ten years.

When i showed him some collodion results
 he invited me to come over to his tattoo shop in Amsterdam,
 as he had never seen this process before.

As you can see, there wasn't much room,
but we managed to make some nice pictures.

Hermagis 420 4.5 portrait petzval

exposure time 8 sec.

Black glass ambro

KCn fixer

Pictures made by Ben :

"Mr Bond......"

Recently Bas Berends and his stepfather Guus Schilling visited my studio.
They were touched by the look of Collodion photography and wanted to know more about it.
Bas is a young but very talented professional photographer http://www.baslab.net/
and Guus loves to play with his guns and rifles (air pressed) for his hobby.

So we sat together and made some plates.

"Guus, alias Mr Bond"

 Guus flowing his first plate ever......

Bas varnisching his plates.

"Bas" made by Guus

"Guus" made by Bas

Big boys playground...........Bièvres

Yesterday we had the oppertunity to visit the Bievres fair.
It's one of the largest photographica open air fair in the world.
We arrived at 11 and already lots of people we looking for interesting lenses, camera's. photographs, tripods etc.
If you are looking for something special, this is THE place to be.
This is realy THE playground for big photographic boys.
We planned to stay two days but unfortunately i had to leave early.

Although it was VERY warm ( 32 degrees C !!) we had a great time.
We met some very nice "wet platers" like Garrett from the USA, John Brewer for the UK, Matthias Olmeta and Fabrice Pejout from France.
Just have a look at there websites.

Garrett : http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsphotos/sets
John Brewer : http://www.johnbrewerphotography.com/
Matthias Olmeta : http://www.olmeta.com/
Fabrice Pejout : http://www.fabricepejout.com/

"Ferry"

Tonight a friend of mine, Ferry, visited my studio and we made some plates.
Ferry himself is a great photographer and currently he's working on a magnificent book about Paris.
He's also writing a very informative blog about Paris : http://paris-fvdv.blogspot.com/

Dallmeyer 3b open

exposure time 6 secs

KCN fixer

Black glass

Poorboy (alex) collodion mix