Wet Plate Collodion Negative & Albumen Print Process

[@anuruddhal]

Incredible work! I’m truly impressed by the depth of your research and your commitment to traditional film photography. Exploring the evolution of lenses from the 1860s Petzval to the 1970s Schneider Tele-Xenar is not only fascinating but also a beautiful homage to the history of photography. Your process of making albumen prints from wet plate collodion negatives is a true art form-it's inspiring to see someone keeping these traditional techniques alive. Best of luck with your new project on the Schengen border; it sounds powerful and deeply relevant. I’m looking forward to seeing how you capture the stark realities with such a historically grounded approach. Keep up the amazing work!

[@luigibiddau6845]

Non capisco la tua lingua, ma il tuo modo di parlare è quello di un bambino che fa uscire dalla sua cannuccia le bolle di sapone e poi inspira tanto in fretta per farne uscire ancora tante di più. E lo fai con tanta energia che neanche tu riesci a controllare e non ti rimane altro che ironizzare su te stesso e quello che fai, i tuoi video sono travolgenti non per arroganza ma per generosità e ti ringrazio perchè li pubblichi e ce ne rendi partecipi, grazie Peterlin.

[@youarenotaghost3702]

What a finely crafted video. You live in a paradise, beautiful forest.

[@NarcissismSurvivor]

My goodness, what an incredibly talented artist you are!

[@NickVenture1]

Nice video and generous of yours to share your valuable knowledge

[@JNMoodyPhotography]

Love seeing that Landrover getting a work out. My photography is what lead me to buying the cousin, FJ Cruiser here in the states. Loving the channel!

[@rg3412]

Love the music! Please put a link to it!

[@MprivetM]

I just discovered your profile. A mine of knowledge and a joyful style. HVALA!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thanks, please share it with others! You know what ancient Greeks were saying... Topshit happens!

[@farouk6564]

Love to watch an artist at work, your work flow is like poetry. Great job!

[@girliedog]

Thank you for sharing your craft. Beautiful results and workflow.

[@juliuswestercappel8391]

Borut, cannot get enough watching. thanks again!!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+Julius Westercappel thx, I am planning to make more frequent publications. I have a concept in mind. A cunning plane ;-)

[@ivogomez8292]

Thanks for showing all this stuff, one big hug from Spain Borut.

[@gerryyaum]

Think I watched 4 or 5 times now, love it each time. Thanks Borut.

[@NasserAlhameli]

The second one is great! The shadow of the stone does make a different! Very clear vid! Thanks

[@MrReshetnik]

very cool! I try to make their ambrotypes. I am just learning! This process took me completely! I will be glad to meet you and talk!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+Александр Решетник Sure, mark yourself the last weekend of July, we are preparing a survival art event :-) www.topshitphotography.com/workshops/european-photography-jamboree/

[@_H_2023]

If you cook those yolks, the birds with love them. Feather type:) Great video as usual, keep making them as it's important, who knows the next generation will be amazed seeing the early photography processes.

[@brianrae1624]

Top Shit indeed! I really appreciate your videos and seeing the lengths you go to in your process. Plus you have a good sense of humor :D

[@MarchMeadow]

Beautiful song and singer!

[@phillnavin1212]

Great work. Thought it was a cooking vid for a minute. BTW like ur sense of humour in your videos. Keep up the good work. Gotta get me one of your works

[@B3D5X]

Wow. This is why I subscribe to your channel. This is so fascinating! Nobody else does this stuff

[@luistavares6670]

Congratulations. I admire your work, I am watching you videos in Brazil, all the best.

[@rsca_cutelaria]

Thanks for sharing your art work, Borut, I really enjoyed to watch to your videos.

[@osbornephoto1955]

Great video. Borut for President!

[@Crispy_Bee]

I can absolutely see the difference between the UV lamp and daylight - but if you like the soft and low contrast image the UV lamp is better. I did some argyrotypes with UV lamps and they were quite pleasing due to the low contast. By the way - I love your images!

[@terrywbreedlove]

Beautiful print I am just starting out and have made my first Salt prints. Love it

[@chentiangemalc]

really nice work, love the results your getting. thanks for some of the info about your process

[@prashantkhapane]

Man this is awesome

[@eduardomarcelino1548]

Dude, it's amazing! Congrats!!

[@chrisrigby3694]

Just stumbled on your channel. Awesome. I'm truly inspired by your work. Makes me want to experiment with the darkroom.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thank you! I apologise to your close ones, whose patience will be tested on your experiments with darkroom. I know what I'm talking about :-)

[@raphaelchemouni1276]

So great as usual, but what is the difference between UV light and Sun light with contact print ?

[@papacarlo6464]

incredible, unusual, amazing, excellent

[@miguelangelo_]

Finally, someone pronouncing "bokeh" properly.

[@StormPetrelNZ]

Man, this is so funny. I have the same camera as you (vageeswari 10x12), the same tripod and the same bubble level key chain on my car key..... And like you I have also a big petzval (magic lantern petzval) which cover nicely 10x12 without too much swirl. I have also an heliar 300mm (an ugly repainted universal heliar 300mm bought very cheap on ebay but the optic is in perfect condition), it vignettes exactly like your one. I have also a big "Leitz Projektions Objektiv" 400mm f3.0 which I can only use wide open, my best investment so far (€60) . I like the way it renders. I have also made an adapter board sinar -> vageeswari so I can use the sinar shutter on the vageeswari. This is very handy for smaller barrel lenses.... I will follow your photographic adventures with interest!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thank you for your comment. Ha, ha... Coincidence. I've seen one guy selling Leity projection lens like that for 800 EUR! I have one, I got it for free. Oh, may I see how you've installed the shutter? This is what I have in mind to do and it would be great help to see it on Vageeswari. Please send me pics on [e-mail] THANK YOU!!!!

[@michellekocses9592]

Do you make a ton of creme brulee with all those eggyolks?

[@JWheeler331]

Very nice work.

[@Chiaroscuro1991]

Great job Borut, nice video. I think maybe you mean sodium sulfite rather than sulfide for the hypo clear. Sulfide is a toner.

[@steveg8322]

You're a photographic Merlin,not turning lead into gold ,but damn near,damn near!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Just a servant of the light, stalking the light, always stalking the light! Thank you for your compliment!

[@steveg8322]

@@BorutPeterlinPhotography ✌

[@tessgraham5657]

Hi! I just have a few questions! What percentage of egg whites was it to the amount of ammonium chloride you added in the first step? How long did you have your paper dry for after coating the albumen and the silver nitrate? When you were coating your images, was it okay to have the indoor lights on? How long did you expose your images for? What else did you mix in with the sodium thiosulfate for the fixer and the sodium sulfide for the hypo clear?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Check the link below, I made a video on the albumen printing. And you dry the paper until it is dry. Usually few hours will do, if you use some warm air flow even half an hour will do. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqisaXqiqamUrJY

[@juanmanuelgarcia729]

I loved the music in the middle of process. How is singing?? Is not possible find with Shazam.

[@mariamanolaros8339]

You are awesome!!!!! Amazing images!!!!!!

[@bodudas8346]

I say: that Voigtlander print is gorgeous. Where can I see your photos? Where can I buy your photos? I can not find you on eBay....

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Try on my shop borutpeterlin.com and wait for the Black Friday. Thank you

[@bodudas8346]

@@BorutPeterlinPhotography Thank you and I will wait for Black Friday to see what new photos you put up for sale. Borut, there are cobwebs on your Flickr page. Allow me to be so bold as to invite you to reignite your Flickr portfolio. Your work is deep in ambiance and feeling. and that is rare in most photography... see you soon... bo

[@luisfilipehenriquesgomes9465]

Congratulations!

[@anapovoas4416]

nice work!!!

[@StreetShots79]

That was amazing! TOPSHIT!

[@Doctoberfest]

lmao almost spit my drink out at work when you said "officially"

[@VanDan]

Topshit video ! And wonderful result ! I appreciate people who share their knowledge. (I also really like the music, can you tell me what's the title ? Is that slovenian ?) Keep up the good work !

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thank you! Indeed, the author of the song is Severa Gjurin kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5rLhpiYYplgsNE

[@VanDan]

Thank You Borut :)

[@rceleo]

Very Nice!! But What kind of paper did u use to coat with the resine you made out of egg whites? Im very curious. Thanks!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+Celeo Ramos whatever good acid free paper intended for alternative photography. In this case I've used Fabriano F5, 50% of cotton. thx

[@chidoiguan]

I see you don’t like to use UV lamps, I am printing platinum/palladium. What is difference between using the Sun and UV lamp? Thank you!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

I'm not sure about the platinum print process, but with albumen a self-masking effect happens and consequently blacks are weaker and whites are shallower. That was an old video. I've learned how to use UV, but still sunlight is better without a doubt.

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

Hello! I want to get into printing Albumen, but many times I see people with really reddish results, and sometimes with really brown results. If I want more brown results, how do I go about that? Also, if you were to recommend chemicals for a beginner, what would you suggest and where do you get them from? (I do have experience dark room printing, but I'm a beginner to albumen.) Thanks :D

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Exposure and toning effects the final result. Tone it with gold chloride toner and you will get even neutral black and white print if you want

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

@@BorutPeterlinPhotography Does the gold toner give it the browning tone? or does it make it more neutral?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

from brown to neutral BW, it depends on the toning time@@Adrian-wd4rn

[@mendezproductions]

Woooooow Awesome Work Very well Done, did you still have those Images I wish have one from you where i can see all you Art ? Or where can buy one ??

[@kevsmith1980]

Borut, I am really pleased with your videos, I love all your work, especially collodion negatives & prints. Having read about Autochrome and other stuff I started to get interested in the process. I haven't seen a color print of this kind of negatives, then I had a quick idea but I think it could be a bit cumbersome to achieve. Is there any way that you can prepare 3 collodion negatives, expose them with red, green and blue filter (maybe even stack them like film does, with no need of 3 separate exposures, although focus could be trouble), and then print them on a color paper with an enlarger (to perfectly align them could be hard too) to get a color positive? I would love to see such thing, I share this idea with you because at the moment I don't think I can put up a darkroom in anytime soon too experiment with it (but it is a dream for a not so near future). Best Regards from Argentina, it's nice to hear from someone of Slovenija :)

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Kev Smith thank you. yes you can, but collodion is over sensitive to blue and slightly sensitive to green and not sensitive at all to red, so basically - NO.

[@kevsmith1980]

Oh, yes! You are absolutely correct! Silly me forgot that collodion doesn't see red light at all :( Thank you for your response!! I will continue my search for a color plate...

[@Standbackforscience]

wow ... that Petzval

[@udoonyewumbu7887]

great stuff

[@Javier-rm5cr]

Hey Borut. I have one question, im going to start to study the process of Wet Plate Collodion. My question is, which cameras did u recommend to use? Like which Brands did u recommend. I saw the example of lenses and its very intersesting. Is there any book or information i can get about it? Greetings from Argentina. Keep on doing this sublime work.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+vierja clatro huh, vageeswari is the best camera in the category price / performance. Kodak 2D is also very popular. There are many cameras. You can make one for yourself, just buy the book Primitive Photography. You must buy it with a plateholder and take special care that the plateholder is opened and plate is loaded from back. Dry plate cameras, you open the plateholder like opening a dark slide and inserting it. That's not good for many reasons. Otherwise I recommend Mark Osterman's manual on www.collodion.org or John Coffer's manual. I have many workshops, but best ones are at George Eastman House. www.topshitphotography.com/workshops/

[@Javier-rm5cr]

+Borut Peterlin THANKS A LOT!!! I just ordered! It will take a time the ship, but will worth it! Thanks again!

[@jameslane3846]

Beautiful photo!!!! Been interested in trying out albumen/salt printing. What's the difference between the two in the look? Also do you put a reserve price on your prints?

[@njshaji3523]

Brooo nice work

[@macbookdieter]

Series III very nice, I have a Series IIa 88

[@henryadams7314]

Borut, This is a great video! I really enjoy your work! What is the soundtrack you have playing in the background? I really enjoy those vocals.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Henry Adams thank you, its Severa Gjurin and Borut Činč.

[@wabashamj]

does the albumen process start with a chicken or an egg?

[@jacobson2313]

baking soda must be on your PH metter NOT! :D your work is great as well as the results! greetings from Czech !

[@_H_2023]

Borut, can't find a video on what happens with old silver nitrate once it has been used and has collodion in the solution,what do you do? can it be cleaned and reused also when you pour distilled water over the developer,what happens with that stuff? Can you reuse this in any way to make a new batch of developer. Would like to see videos on this as no one else has thought to do it. Many thanks and keep making the videos,I've learnt so much from you.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Yes, it can de recycled, although I haven't done it. Even if you chuck the sediment into ordinary trash, it's still much better then throw it in nature. Here's the link, but let us not forget... TOpPSHIT HAPPENS! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2SYgGmZep5lp9E

[@nickfanzo]

I liked the center print best 😉

[@MrReshetnik]

Hi, Borut! How much time passes sensitization albumin papper?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Александр Решетник as soon as possible. Use it immediately after is dried

[@MrReshetnik]

OK! I meant how long to keep the paper in silver. )

[@romanzlobin5691]

what is that beautiful music sounds on background?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Severa Gjurin is the author

[@flatbrokefrank6482]

Happy new Year Borut - if viewers want to learn a process buy a book there are loads of them - Forty years ago there were none and then experiment like crazy, Although i am taking a breather from gum printing it seems a good way of wasting lots of paper, I have had some success with it - the process is tonally limited what you would call shit! - Stay safe

[@XxTechyGamerXx00]

just found your channel and am falling in love with the process of collodion printing. but what is the song?? edit: im dumb. thank you for putting me on.

[@Flamehack]

Really really nice! found you because my father sendet me a link to you. lovely regards from germany! :D

[@MilosBencic]

Like every your video amazing!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thank you!

[@pergikebulanstudio517]

Dope

[@JourneysEnd1750]

I really enjoy your channel and your work. Nicely done! When you're developing that albumen print from the time you checked the exposure to gold toning it looks like there is no detail at all in the shadows. But your final framed print at the end does show the detail in the shadows. When does that come out, when the print is dry?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+JourneysEnd1750 thank you! Indeed salt print, albumen print, collodion chloride print and other print-out-processes needs to be overexposed for about 50% (it depends), because washing and fixing will make it much lighter.

[@JourneysEnd1750]

By the way, I used to build custom fishing rods and to pop air bubbles in the epoxy finishing I blew on the bubbles through a soda drinking straw and found it faster and easier than trying to brush them out.

[@kilnsandclay]

what truck is that?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

German land rover series 3, year 1972.

[@Robespierre-lI]

We already discuss these two techniques together. But, you know, we always the up ignoring the other nineteenth century printing out papers

[@CharlesHeinrich]

hey whats the song ?

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Severa Gjurin

[@CharlesHeinrich]

@@BorutPeterlinPhotography is the singer, and the title of the song?

[@Oleg_Kuchurivsky]

❤

[@mikedonovan8811]

That tree stump looks almost like a ruined medieval tower.

[@edipofederle]

Background songs names Please 😬

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Severa Gjurin. My friend !-)

[@edipofederle]

Topshit Photography thank you!! Best from Brazil. Love your work and channel.(next time I will checkout the final credits :d)

[@harariadi]

! i m in love wooo

[@impressionsoflight9263]

Your Heliar lens looks like you've been using it as a hammer to build your cabin in the forest :)

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

the normal price oh it is over 1000 EUR and I got it for a fraction of the price, so I wasn't complaining. at all.

[@impressionsoflight9263]

You could make a beautiful image using the bottom of a coke bottle 🙏

[@jtaulen]

Great stuff as always Borut ! But, b, but,bu,but topshit happens ! :D Take care =)

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

ha, ha, B as BBBBorut

[@babushkablyattv2751]

C as CYKA

[@fredericvasquez316]

Wow

[@juliag.1231]

This is great art, you shouldnt sell on ebay, you should sell in a gallery! For much more money... Although you have to know that galleries are taking mostly 50 %... Or have you ever tried to take more money on ebay? Its worth much more....And I would consider not signing your pictures in front, but in the back, I wouldn´t like that the signature is so big in the front (from what I saw on ebay) ... it takes away the attention from the picture... Great work!

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

Thank you, yes I have consider it and furthermore I have tried, but if a bear is your closest neighbour and you live in a country or should I say region, that nobody buys art, then it's kind of difficult to be picky. I have been successful commercial photographer, very successful, I build myself a house, but I do not want to do the work that I am frankly not proud of. I made a quick calculation and I've decided to go this way. I know this is totally unconventional, but so am I and the fact that I do not have a gallery, gives me the freedom to do whatever I want. Nevertheless I agree with you, time will come also for selling in galleries, but now I need to make a living from my art. That's my goal! It's not that bad, I still have two kidneys - that's my B-plan...

[@juliag.1231]

Sounds so good! As long as you still have your kidneys ;-) I like your life concept, living next to the bear and doing a living from photography sounds great...

[@tomsuarez3272]

Really like the photos and process, but please, free range eggs, those poor chickens :(

[@Danni24]

two questions: how do you feel about digital photograph? and why do you do all your chemistry by scracht (i don't mind at all)? jajajajj i wont buy your kidneys jajajajajaajjaja if you use a resine paper (you know the ones which sells on photography shops) will get the same sharp and finish??? and ok i will stop. I want you to teach me, you are a master . ok bye i will stop.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

+Dani Guevara I'm professional photographer, most of my professional work is done in digital photography. I do everyday photoshop, Lightroom and as you can see I also edit video, know something about HTML and other digital tools. Because that's what they are tools, I don't make a fuss about it. I have two kidneys, but I would sell my friend's kidney first, since he isn't that much friend all of a sudden... Albumen print hasn't have this kind high glossy surface, it has much more charming gloss. But that's the matter of taste. Ha, ha, yes, I have workshops, many of them. See you soon ;-)