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Danica Victorian Orotone

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The beautiful Wisconsin model Danica captured in an historic Orotone portrait. The images is an 8x10 print on glass and created using real silver and gold. It is very difficult to take a picture of an Orotone and capture their true beauty. The tones shimmer in real life and Danica appears to float in the glass as you move the plate. An Orotone is a photographic print. It is created from a photo negative created in a camera. Here is a 30 second video showing the basic process of printing an Orotone. I will have a few Orotones available for…

Wedding Orotone

Blog / Orotone / Victorian Print

An Orotone is a collodion photograph print created using a dry collodion process. A full sized photographic negative is created and then used to contact print on a glass plate. The plate is coated with light sensitive silver suspended in a collodion matrix. The plate is printed with sunlight for around 60 minutes, developed, and toned with gold chloride. After rinsing and drying the plate is coated with gold paint to bring out the image. This 8x10 glass plate was created with a wet plate negative taken on a cloudy and rainy day in Oshkosh. My "wedding" couple models managed…

Art – A Product of The Human Soul

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As I watch the March snow coming down I think about all the wonderful Victorian photography projects I plan for this season. But there is a part of me that also wonders why bother? I am at the age where I could do about anything with my time (working for money is not necessary anymore). So why go to all the work and expense to keep doing projects? But then I come across the following thought from Andrew Claven: There is no grander product of the human soul than art. It is the spirit of creation moving in mankind. Fractals,…