Here is my Modern Victorian Era Photography Portfolio. My favorite images, made by me, using Victorian Era methods and processes. These methods date from the 1830’s to the 1860’s the birth years of photography.
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Portraits
My main love is portrait photography. I use a variety of portrait methods including wet plate collodion and salt & cyanotype printing. I have an active business doing portraits around Wisconsin so check out my Portrait Page for more information.
Salt Prints
Salt printing is the oldest photographic processes – dating to the 1830’s. Salt is both a photographic process used in a camera and a method of reproducing photos as direct contact prints. I use silver and gold to make my salt prints. I use my original photographs and Ambrotype images (wet plate collodion on glass) for the negatives and each print is custom made and exposed using natural sunlight. Gold toning gives multiple hues to the image from browns to reds and purples. It is a complicated is a complicated process with almost infinite variety making each image truly unique!
Cyanotype Prints
Cyanotypes were originally developed as a way to duplicate hand written documents. But cyanotype is also an amazing way to render art images from both photographic negatives and using physical objects such as flowers. Cyanotype is known for its blue colors – from light blue to deep cobalt. It can also be toned to generate browns, blacks, greens and even yellows. Cyanotype is a fairly simple process that uses iron and sunnlight.
Wet Plate Collodion
Wet plate collodion is the earliest photographic process that achieved commercial success. Roving photographers were a common site in the 1850’s through the 1900’s and we have all seen some of the thousands of wet plates made during the American Civil war. I use metal plates (Tintypes) and recycled glass (Ambrotypes) to create images up to 8in x 10in. Portraits are my favorite but I also do some fine art and landscape images. Wet plates images are pure silver and have amazing depth and character. I use antique lenses – 80 to 140 years old.
Want to explore getting a wet plate collodion Portrait done? The first step is to Contact Me to start our conversation.
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