{"id":44759,"date":"2015-02-25T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=44759"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:32:57","slug":"photographer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/photographer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer to take \u2018Mega Mammoth\u2019 wet-plate camera across America"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo of the camera, as pictured\u00a0on the Kickstarter website<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris, who has already turned his trailer into a mobile wet collodion darkroom, plans to use the 22x27in glass-plate camera to photograph the American Southwest.<\/p>\n\"trailer.web\"<\/a>\n

Chris’s mobile darkroom trailer, as shown\u00a0on Kickstarter<\/em><\/p>\n

He has raised more than $13,000 in funds for the project through crowdfunding website Kickstarter \u2013 almost $5,000 more than the target figure.<\/p>\n

The photographer has already built the wooden end of the bellows, and attached them to the camera.<\/p>\n

He reckons it will take around a month to finish building the remaining parts.<\/p>\n

He also needs to get hold of at least two \u2018vintage\u2019 lenses of different focal lengths.<\/p>\n

Why such a large camera? \u2018Simple. Because for image quality, bigger is better,\u2019 explains Chris on the Kickstarter website.<\/p>\n

\u2018There is no grain or loss of image quality due to enlarging.<\/p>\n

\u2018I plan on making direct positive ambrotypes. These are glass negatives which have the back painted black to turn them positive.<\/p>\n

\u2018They are lustrous and rich in dimensionality and depth.\u2019<\/p>\n\"mammoth.web.\"<\/a>\n

Though the camera is still a work in progress, Chris\u00a0says he has already managed\u00a0to make a few ‘successful\u00a0plates’, posting\u00a0this image on the Kickstarter fundraising page<\/em><\/p>\n

The photographer says he was inspired after seeing an exhibition of images created by Carleton Watkins in the 1860s and ’70s, using an 18x22in camera.<\/p>\n

This is Chris\u2019s second Kickstarter project. His first, A Moment in Time, California in Wet Collodion, took him across California using 8x10in and 12x20in wet-plate cameras.<\/p>\n

Chris says that the project\u2019s backers will receive prints of images he captures during the trip.<\/p>\n

For more on this fascinating venture check out the Kickstarter website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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