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| Ambrotype from a Washington DC photo I took at Arlington National Cemetary |
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Fun with photos
My students are watching some Shakespeare today to get ready to read Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, two of my favorites! While they are taking it in and trying to figure out what their plays are about, I thought I might take advantage of some down time to play with a Adobe Photoshop to try out a new technique I was reading about in one of my journalism magazines: creating an ambrotype photo. Ambrotype is a wet-plate process you can use with old plate-cameras where you treat a glass plate with light-sensitive chemicals to create a picture. If you've seen them, they are very cool and have an antique look to them that is pretty unique. My article gave a step-by-step on creating a plate-glass version that I'm not even close to being ready to try. Besides not having the right type of camera, the chemistry involved is pretty intense (but some day)! They also had a step-by-step on creating the same effect digitally. After a bit of frustration- I never use Photoshop- and some trial and error, I finally got my first photo done. Let me know what you think? I definitely want to play with this some more!
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3 comments:
Cool! This month's National Geographic has some photos you might like, the photog uses a period correct camera to take photos of Civil War re-enactors, complete with "modern" touches like a line of porta potties. They look quite a bit like your effect. Do some with people!
looks cool to me, although i agree that it seems a bit cheater-y to do it with Photoshop! :) you definitely need a REAL darkroom someday...
Someday when I own my own dream house, it'll come equipped with a dark room :)
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