Glass Plate Negatives (Visual Studies)

History of Glass Plate Negatives

There are 2 types of glass plate negatives Collodion Wet Plate and Gelatine Dry Plate, Collodion negatives were used from 1851 to the 1880s, and these types of glass plates produce a negative that is sharper, stable and more detailed negative. These are usually identifiable because they are somewhat rough, with uneven emulsion, thick glass, and are rough around the edge.

Dry plate negatives, came about in 1873 and were a more successful and more permanent photographic type, the could be transported more easily, could be used dry, and didn’t need exposing to as much light, they also used thinner glass, and more evenly coated emulsion.  

(Summerset Photography 2009)

http://www.somersetphotography.com/glass_negatives.htm
(Assessed 13th October 2013)

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/gelatin-silver/silver-gelatin-dry-plate-process

The first link above is the research that I used for the history, the second link is to a page on the internet about how to create the second type of glass plate, and all of the items look to be things that are still available, so it is something that if I wanted I could consider doing during one of my projects, or just as a personal endeavour for something fun to do and experiment with.

Images for first inprestions (Personal Work)

These are images taken for my first assignment, to get these I walked over towards the mumbles light house, following the beach along, and mostly looking out towards the sea, I also shot a couple of 120 films on a Hasselblad but still need to develop them to see what there like.

10-10-2013 First Visual Studies

For our introduction to these lessons, we started of by looking at the work of our lectures, to show that they are working and successful artists in their respective fields, then we were shown some blogs which we can take inspiration for own from.

Then finally we went round several gallery’s, starting with the Mission Gallery, viewing the work of maleonn, whose work I like in some ways, but I’m not a fan of very set up images so it didn’t really inspire me, then we went to Swansea Market, to view an installation by Owen Griffiths which I’m not sure about it was interesting but to me seemed more and exploration of culture than art.

Next we went onto Elysium Gallery, and looked at the work of Yingmei Duan, I only saw part of the work, a video peace which my interpretation was that it is looking at how we all ways work have to work to get to our dreams and happiness and that nothing comes easily, there was also a performance peace in a small room but due to the fact that a lot of people wanted to go in I decided to leave it till another time.

Then finally we went to the Ragged School, and looked at Fern Thomas’s work which was amazing and really relaxing to watch with a combination of the music and the images making it very interesting work, finally I was going to go to the last gallery only went to the YMCA thinking it was there, so decided I’ll go tomorrow to the final gallery.