"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 :

"George from Ghana"

This is a picture from my friend George from Ghana.
He's wearing traditional clothes from Ghana.
Normally he's ALWAYS smiling, so posing like this was rather difficult to do for him...

Clear Glass

Dallmeyer 3b open

Poorboy collodion

KCN Fixer

exposure 6 seconds

Studio shoot at "MIJNSTUDIO"

Last week i was invited by Marc Vreenegoor, owner of a very beautifull professional studio in ter Aar ( near Amsterdam) to give a demonstration wet plate photography.

He invited a very beautifull, but also very patient model Marisa to make some plates.
The other photographer was Huibert van der Meer. A great and very creative photographer.
For the most of them it was the first time they ever saw wet plate photography.
It was a very long but also joyfull day.

Location : www.mijnstudio.nu

Marc Vreenegoor : http://www.m-xposure.com/

Huibert van der Meer : http://www.huibertvandermeer.nl/

some impressions :

picture made by Marc Vreenegoor

Dallmeyer 3b wide open

exposure time 10 sec

black glass

Dallmeyer 3b wide open

exposure time 6 sec

black glass

Dallmeyer 3b wide open

exposure time 10 sec

black glass

"George"

This evening my friend George came by.

He 73 years old and he's ALWAYS smiling.
George originaly comes from Ghana and this pictures was with his traditional clothes on.

noname petzval
aprox 350 mm 5.6
clear glass
"poorboy" collodion
KCN fixer
exposuretime 6 sec.

This was more difficult to get the light right.
Unfortunately not perfect sharp, but i think it is almost impossible to do, laughing for 6 seconds and keeping your head still.
 

My son Robin

I know, he  looks a bit angry. But thats the way he wanted it.
This looks cool on he internet was his answer......

 No name latern petzval lens

aprox 350 mm 5.6

clear glass

"poorboy" collodion

KCN fixer

exposuretime 5 sec.

The Thinker

Yesterday i made this picture of a member of our Photo club LUCIFER
It took about one hour untill we were satisfied with the result.
from now on i will call him "The Thinker"

Lars, thanks for being so patient.

noname petzval
aprix 350 mm 5.6
clear glass
"poorboy" collodion
KCN fixer
exposuretime 5 sec.