Yeah, I can see you.
Hi.
Potassium nitrate, ferrous sulfate, denatured alcohol, silver nitrate at 9%.
Temperature at 9% is the least strong.
Just looking straight into a lens camera.
Yeah, that's cool.
Workpload photography is a process that was predominantly practiced between the 1850s and the 1930s.
If you can imagine when you see movies, the big old wooden cameras, they put the big clothes over the head. That's essentially the era and the type of equipment that was used.
If you think of it, we've got digital photography now and then before digital there was film, well before film there was workpload photography.
What really interests me and where I really want to push my workpload photography is that I love the crazy juxtaposition between this historic technique and shooting and photography as we know it in the 21st century.
I love the idea of doing a workplate shoot for a fashion and I love the idea of doing a workplate product for the right product.
There's just so much potential for shots that just have never been recorded on workplate before.
It's like, imagine if you've never seen a photograph of something.
One of the things I love most about workplate is actually it's such a hand-on process.
You're out there mixing chemicals, developing just the whole alchemy associated with it.
It's like you're in high school and you play with the buns and burn it for the first time and you're like melting your pen over the art.
That is awesome. I get that same excitement from workplate photography.
What really interests me and what really pushes me with alternative photography and workplate colluding especially is that we live in this day and age where everything is captured.
99% of photography now is digital.
You've got this other 150 years of amazing processes that have just been left to the wayside.
That transformation as the fixer clears the plate is just amazing.
Like seeing your image pop up when you're shooting with your own talent or whoever you're shooting with, everybody's always amazed at that process.
When the picture lights up for the first time, people always get a big kick out of that.
For me, doing workplate, it's really about getting outside and being a photographer and practicing and actually putting hands on with my photography rather than being stuck in front of the computer.
And that's something that I really appreciate and really enjoy.
It's really bringing a uniqueness to my work that typically doesn't exist, that can't be created on digital.
Everything in workplate photography, everything, every shot you do is completely unique.
You can have the same setup and shoot it straight after the shot and it's not going to be the same, pouring the plates and developing everything.
You're never going to get an exact replica of a shot and I think it really adds to that uniqueness and it really adds to the value of the technique to have 100% individual unique images every time.
That's it for this video, I hope you enjoyed it.
