How to make a ground glass for large format camera – on the field!

Last week I’ve made a ground glass for my Linhof Kardan 5×7″ camera and I’ve done many tests in carbon double transfer carbon print process. I’m very pleased with the ground glass and the mixing of potassium dichromate with sodium hidroxide. I’m truly amazed that after four days standing at room temperature I was getting perfectly clear whites and rich blacks. Anyway I skipped two ground glass tricks in my vlog. If in emergency, when you traveled to a location and you brake the ground glass, you can make one on the spot. 1) the best is to have some silicon carbide with you and you can make one in 30 minutes. 2) If you don’t have the silicon carbide, go and buy finest sanding paper you can get. Most likely it will be too coarse, so you can add some ash from fire place or some other material, like salt with oversaturated water or if you are wet plate collodion photographer, then you have on you the ferrous sulphate and if you add very little water, it will make a fine grinding powder. 3) if you are a wet plate collodion photographer, then you cut your glass to the size of the ground glass, pour collodion on it and sub it into silvernitrate for two minutes. That will make the glass milky in just the right way to work as a good ground glass. OK, now this is done, now I can start preparing for my epic Christmas special! Subscribe, recommend the channel, or even support it by buying a book or becoming a patreon! Either way… Topshit happens! Three ways to support this channel: https://www.borutpeterlin.com/shop/ https://www.patreon.com/borutpeterlin https://www.paypal.me/borutpeterlin

New plates from A New Earth wet plate collodion project

Dear viewers, here is the new work for my project A New Earth. Inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta and the philosophy of Eckhart Tolle and Alan Watts, I’m camping in the forest for several days and I’m performing a ritual called wet plate collodion photography, glass plates, format 40x50cm or 16×20″.

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My Youtube channel got hacked!!! / Vlog #95

Catastrophe, my youtube channel got hacked. Hackers left some clues behind and if you recognise somebody in this surveillance footage, let me know!

My wetplate camera has RC controlled guillotine shutter! / Vlog 88

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In this episode I’m showing my guillotine shutter for my ultra large format camera, size 40x50cm. It was made already in December, but it wasn’t reliable at all and I needed lots of support from my friends.

Thanks to Anže Grabeljšek and Oto Žan.

Oto’s main business is slide reproductions and send him inquiry on the email: info@diasi.si and his website is http://www.diasi.si His website is at the moment only in Slovenian, but soon it will be in English.

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Carbon print from a collodion negative

Last two weeks I worked really a lot, but the vlog I’ve limited only to my passion for carbon printing. I’m already preparing for the new episode. Tonight suppose to be snowing and tomorrow morning I’m in the woodlands making plates!

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Wet Plate Collodion Photography IN COLOUR!

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This vlog is a second part of the project I’ve done for a costume designer Alan Hranitelj and in this vlog I’m sharing few tips on how to face challenges in this situation. I hope it will be useful for you colleagues.

Here is the link to the Unmesh Dinda from PixImperfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Y8YcKnRm0&t=

Osterman’s collodion manual is available on the link:
http://collodion.org/pubs.html

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Hand coloured wet plate collodion images

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In this vlog I’m showing my ambrotypes commissioned by Alan Hranitelj, an amazing costume designer. The scans of ambrotypes I’ve digitally hand coloured. I hope you like the show.

Camera Mik Kovačič and Anže Grabeljšek.
Editing by Anže Grabeljšek.

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Announcement, workshops, guillotine shutter, give away gift and the vlog #62

My next photo project will be about the zeitgeist, the nature and a man. I will talk / show more about it in my next vlog. For now, I wanted to share some technical solutions I’ve made and show thanks to my followers and especuially my patreons. On this link you can see new workshop dates: http://www.topshitphotography.com/ On this link you can buy my book A Father’s Tale: https://www.borutpeterlin.com/shop/we… If you would want to buy me a cup of tea or even pizza every month, you can become my patreon at https://www.patreon.com/borutpeterlin One time donation is possible through https://www.paypal.me/borutpeterlin Thank you for your attention!

Bushcraft Photography / Vlog #60

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In this part of Topshit Photography Vlog, I went to the woodland of Kočevski rog for two days and I did some collodion glass negatives and albumen prints. My main goal was to explore the possibility of staying away from the civilisation and still do my job as a professional photographer. In July 17th – 21st, 2019, I will organise an expedition with rafts down the river Krka and then in the woodland of Kočevski rog. The idea is that we make photography as we go. We don’t need a darkroom to make prints, we can do them in a tent in the middle of nowhere.

Anyway this experience was wonderful and in the future I will do that more often for longer periods of time.

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Film developers Kodak D-76 vs. Rodinal vs. FX-1 vs.Pyrocat HD

After the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, after the Matrix film triology, we finally have the triology on film developers! This vlog features two old developers, Rodinal and Kodak D-76 side by side with a new guns FX-1 and Pyrocat!

Oh, what a fortune that is! Enjoy the vlog and share your opinion on the topic, so others (me included) can learn from it. This research took way too much time and I do not know why I am always surprised on the amount of work that takes to make it through. But I’ve done it. I hope you will like it.

Part one of the saga: (no darkroom): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqCZ…

Part two (mixing chemistry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKbT…

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