Wet Plate Collodian

Gum Bichromate

By Erin Mahoney

This photo is also pretty, right? Want to know how it's made? Thought so. The process used to make this photo is called Gum Bichromate. Gelatin is mixed with pigment and sensitized with chromium salts in order to make this print. The print is multilayered and the lighter parts have the least gum while the darker has the most. 

Cyanotype Process

By Alessandra Hull

How was this beautiful photo made, you ask? Well, this photo was made via the cyanotype process. This process was the first picture producing method to not use silver to process the picture. The process turned the picture blue. It was used mostly for trial pictures as it was a fast and cheap way to develop a picture.

Collodian Process

 By Nicky Thompson

This here power photographic picture was made using the collodian method. Now what exactly is the collodian method? That's what I'm here to tell you:

The collodian process is done by coating the plate in a collodian mixture, putting it in silver nitrate, and then exposing the plate. This process was relatively inexpensive to others in the height of its popularity (1850s). The process leads to a brushed on look to the photograph.

Layers: Short and Tall

Raven is short, Chris and Brennan are tall. When put together, Raven looks very short compared to them. Also, Brennan and Chris have cute smiles so they deserve the shoutout they get in this layered photograph.

Layers: Isao and Raven

Isao and Raven are a super touchy couple and I thought they deserved a shout out in some of my pictures. For obvious reasons, the sign saying love is in the background and a picture of Raven laughing compliments the happy nature of the photo of them together.

Layers: Quandre

For this layer, I took a cute picture of Quandre and knew I had to make an edit of it. I thought the flower background coupled with the window complimented the pictures of Quandre really well. I removed some of the background of one photo so that all of Quandre could shine through.