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. |