The orange collector
Clear glass 5x4 inch ambrotype. Exposure 20 seconds @ f11 in bright shade.
The wet collodion process isn't red sensitive at all, so I feared that the orange segments would come out very dark and lacking detail. So, I dipped them in blue food dye for a few minutes to make green oranges. I also printed the labels flipped left-to-right, so that they read correctly on the plate.
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Ó Súilleabháin (14 months ago | reply)
Very good - I love the added detail of the pins securing the specimens.
dog_dreamzzz (14 months ago | reply)
Excellent! Great idea coloring the orange sections...they came out really cool!
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ursbernhard (14 months ago | reply)
whow! great...
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1969lucy (12 months ago | reply)
I love your attention to detail.
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