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Robert Beech

Robert attended the GEH Bromide Emulsion workshop in March and learned to make blue-sensitive (aka: colorblind) dry plates.  The plates are ideal for Robert's Gettysburg project.  Civil War photographers, including Alexander Gardner, used collodion wet plates.  Plain silver bromide dry plates have almost the same color sensitivity and character as collodion, but are far more convenient and safer to work with.  Robert is currently using the "MO-1880" emulsion, Mark Osterman's adaptation of an old recipe.  Robert used images from the book, 'Gettysburg Then and Now', by William A. Frassinito, to find the location of  "Dead Confederate, Below Devil's Den, #244". 150 years after Gardner made his famous image, Robert  stood in the exact same spot with his 4x5 camera.





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