Project 6 Prework

A wet plate collodion is an early photographic process that almost entirely replaced the daguerreotype in the 1850s. Making a wet plate collodion photo required the photographer to coat a glass plate with a collodion mix and then dip the plate into silver nitrate in a darkroom. This would create a negative which would then be used to make a print.

John Milleker Jr.
darkroom.baltimoresun.com/

A cyanotype is a photographic process that creates a blue and white photo. A cyanotype would be made by painting a photosensitive mixture on paper and then you would place an object in front of the piece of paper which would expose the mixture creating a negative.

Anna Atkins
vernacularphotography.com/

A gum bichromate is another early photographic process that involves placing a photosensitive mixture onto a piece of paper that is exposed to light. While a lot like a cyanotype, a gum bichromate would be multi-layered with each layer being exposed individually with photosensitive mixtures that contain different colored pigments. 

Scott
lumberjocks.com/

This project involves the use of many types of brushes in photoshop. After downloading some, I made this while messing around with the brushes. I also made my own brush out of a photo of a clay statue from an earlier project.