Tues will be a full moon and, as luck will have it, rain and overcast sky are predicted. Weather is by far the biggest reason for my unfulfilled desire to photograph the full moon. Broken clouds might provide some opportunity to capture dramatic images of stormy atmosphere. Again patients is a virtue. Waiting is a must.
When I think of capturing a photographic image I think of what it must have been like for the early photographers. The photographer packing his mule with large plate camera and a darkroom tent, traveling miles into the wilderness for days just to capture wild landscapes that most of the American public would never see first hand. Just think about the effort it took to capture these images.
Here from the Eastman House is a list of equipment needed to photograph in the wilderness:
WET-PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT FOR A WESTERN SURVEY
When I think of capturing a photographic image I think of what it must have been like for the early photographers. The photographer packing his mule with large plate camera and a darkroom tent, traveling miles into the wilderness for days just to capture wild landscapes that most of the American public would never see first hand. Just think about the effort it took to capture these images.
Here from the Eastman House is a list of equipment needed to photograph in the wilderness:
WET-PLATE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT FOR A WESTERN SURVEY
Following is a list of equipment taken by one expeditionary photographer, William Henry Jackson, to allow him to make wet-plate glass negatives. This is a fairly typical list of equipment, involving the transportation of numerous glass bottles, delicate lenses, glass plates, and such things as nitric acid. All of this would be packed and
Once on location the glass plates would first need to be processed into light sensitive negatives. Here is how that is done- The Wet Plate Collodion Process
At that point the exposures needed to be completed before the collodion dried, rush back to the tent and develop the images. Once your trip was complete the plates then needed to be transported back to civilization without damage.
Not only was patients needed but a strong work ethic and a burning desire.
Do you have the burning desire and the work ethic needed?
If you do, it will show in the images you create.
Not only was patients needed but a strong work ethic and a burning desire.
Do you have the burning desire and the work ethic needed?
If you do, it will show in the images you create.
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