RE: My first platinum-palladium over gold leaf prints

[Gregory Popovitch <greg@gpy.com>]

Thanks, Joe, I don't know why I didn't think of orotones... probably because I never saw one with my own eyes.

 

greg

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From: Joseph Smigiel [mailto:jsmigiel@net-link.net]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:48 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: My first platinum-palladium over gold leaf prints

On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Gregory Popovitch wrote:

It is worth it I think... I am very impressed with the idea and the

beautiful result. The birth of a new process?

Dan, have you tried this on a glass plate?

gregory

Orotones on glass:

http://www.edwardcurtis.com/goldtone/gtthumbs.html

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.permadocument.be/texte/Z/ZRFK7.html

A few other wetplate artists have also been recently experimenting along similar lines,

These must be beautiful in person.

Joe

My "Getting Started in Wetplate Collodion Photography" article:

http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/WPC/wpc.html

2008 Wetplate Collodion Workshop schedule:

http://www.northlightworkshops.com/workshops/collodion/