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    Posted: 13 June 2007 at 10:14
NEW Field Wet Plate Collodion Shoot coming this July 14-15, 2007
Large format camera

Instructor: Will Dunniway of Corona, California, 40 miles east of Los
Angeles, has been a professional graphic artist and photographer for over
40 years. He now practices the 19th century art of wet plate collodion
photography using original cameras and lens with nearly 20 years
experience.

The basic course description $425: ($100 deposit required to hold space)

Saturday: At the Corona Studio - Students will learn (or relearn) the
making of ambrotypes (glass direct positives) and tintypes. (Ferrotypes,
tin plate direct positives) adn large format glass collodion. Students are
guided through the process step-by-step from the mixing, pouring,
exposing and development of plates poured with wet collodion. The
newest 4 color edition of the manual, Making the Wet Collodion Plate in
16 Steps manual by Will Dunniway is included along with all materials in
the course fee. Students will use a period 1860 field camera with
1860-70 lenses. This will be for the beginner and experienced collodion
practitioner. A two day course crammed into one day.

Sunday: Private land (with facilities) above Murrietta, California - We will
drive the 30 minutes from Corona, Ca. to the oak /boulder wilderness
location on the land of a friend. Very private. There I will set up one or
two portable darkrooms and tutor you in a hands on field environment
doing field wet plate work in the tradition of the old wet plate collodion
masters. Lunch will be packed for you.

The workshop is not about the historical use of the process. It is about
the use of wet plate collodion in a contemporary setting. It just so
happens that I am an historical tin-typist with 19 years in the field doing
this wet plate process.

I do not require anything remotely historical. I will also help you adapt
newer 'view' type cameras with wet plate backs. Given this, my equipment
is all original by default. This is the only equipment I use. My students
have really enjoyed working with this rare camera equipment . The look
these old lens give is incredible. In the end you will go away with a
working knowledge of the process, not it's historical interpretation.

I hope this information is useful. If you need to ask any questions, call. If
you give me a thumbs up - Email: silverandsun@mac.com to attend the
July 14-15, 2007 - The NEW Summer Wet Plate Collodion Field Shoot
Workshop. Hope you can come

Will Dunniway
951-817-5113

Email ~ silverandsun@mac.com
Web sites ~ http://www.dunniway.com
http://www.collodion-artist.comNEW Field Wet Plate Collodion Shoot -
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NEW Field Wet Plate Collodion Shoot coming this
July 14-15, 2007
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 June 2007 at 20:54

I don't post here very often but anyone who has the opportunity to attend this workshop with Will Dunniway will come away with a wealth of information and some nice plates too.  I am a graduate of Brooks Institute and have been a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times for over 28 years.   I can say without reservation that this was one of the best photo workshops that I have taken during my entire career. 

Will is a terrific artist and teacher with years of experience.  He is available to answer your questions days, weeks or months after the weekend workshop is over.  He has studied with John Coffer and Mark Osterman.  He has taught Robb Kendrick, Kerik and countless others.  And contrary to established beliefs, he does not shoot only Civil War events.  His landscapes are amazing and huge. 

This workshop will be a good beginning for newcomers and an opportunity to shoot with a Collodion master for those of you with more experience.

Ted

  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 June 2007 at 10:53
I would love to take it, but I am going to the View Camera conference this year and it is too close (time wise) to the conference and there's not enough $$$ to go around for me this year.  Perhaps next year...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 June 2007 at 18:19
Will,

I want to learn and shoot with you some time!
The course looks good.
Really feel an affinity with your work.
Those days, however, I will be photographing mountain ascetics
holding giant flaming torches in the Kumano mountains.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 June 2007 at 14:59
Thanks for all the wonderful replies. They are really appreciated. I still
have a few places in the July and Fall, October workshops. I have two
other summer workshops listed below. They have a July 1st cutoff and are
both close to filling, but close to a NO GO too. So sign up if you are at all
inclinded.

Photographer Formulary Workshop on Collodion Photography
July 22-27 Condon, Montana
(See: http://www.photoformulary.com/ to register)

Historic Eastfield Village, N.Y. Wet Plate Collodion Workshop
August 13-16 Nassau, New York (near Albany, NY)
with Claude Levet assisting. (Tentative, see http://
www.greatamericancraftsmen.or...ps/classes.htm to register)

FALL Wet Plate Collodion Workshop
October 6-7, Corona, California
write: silverandsun@mac.com
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 June 2007 at 19:05
Hi mr. Dunniway,
             I signed up for the dag workshop in Montana! Hope to see you there
teaching the collodion arts!

-Race Gentry
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