“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.” — Charles Godfrey Leland /// #wetplate 8x10” Tintype
26.02.2025 09:19 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@iggybug.bsky.social
Wet plate, cyanotype, and a lot of luck … Northern California https://www.iggybug.com/
“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.” — Charles Godfrey Leland /// #wetplate 8x10” Tintype
26.02.2025 09:19 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Master” /// 8x10 Tintype /// #wetplate
17.02.2025 19:41 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Slut” /// hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf on Arches Aquarelle watercolor paper. #cyanotype #altprocess #altphoto
10.02.2025 04:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0That’s some really nice looking film soup!
09.02.2025 04:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your eye is amazing.
07.02.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Really beautiful color palette. My cross processing experiments never looked this good.
07.02.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Self-Portrait with Camera” / Hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf. #cyanotype #altprocess #altphoto
07.02.2025 14:47 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Anonymous” — crop from an 8x10 #wetplate #tintype
07.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
06.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 149900 🔁 27833 💬 6409 📌 2271Exquisite.
07.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Self-Portrait with Camera” — Hand-Coated Cyanotype. This is my camera Minerva: She’s 122 years young, and she has seen some shit. She’s currently partnered with a slutty Russian lens she rescued from the gutter — an Industar-37. #cyanotype
07.02.2025 14:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Actaeon Discovers Artemis” — Hand-coated #cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf from a 6x7 120 negative. Shit, I made the mask too. #analogphotography #filmphotography #altprocess
07.02.2025 14:29 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf from a 4x5 negative
07.02.2025 06:49 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Took this #wetplate today.
19.01.2025 00:06 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’m considering a 4800 WS power supply and two 2400 WS lights and modifiers for studio wet plate work. A new Speedotron 4803cx is ruinously expensive, but I feel like folks are always needing to repair used lighting equipment. Tips on avoiding crap used lighting grass would be appreciated! #wetplate
26.12.2024 21:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sometimes, my wet plates just get fucked up. And, sometimes, those fuck ups look cool. Embrace serendipity!
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So, I’m primarily a photographer of nudes. My work ranges in eroticism from “That’d be ok in some churches.” to “Larry Flynt is blushing!”
But I also love playing with lumen printing and photographing fungi, bats, and native California wildflowers. #photography
Nope, but the mind reels at the possibilities.
11.12.2024 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perfect alignment should yield perfect color, but psychedelic fun results from intentionally imperfect alignment! #photography #experimentalphotography #trichromie #psychedelic
11.12.2024 20:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So, I shoot a lot of “Trichromie” (trichromatic false color positives.) The theory is simple: take three separate b&w exposures each filtered through a red, blue, or green filter. Those are your R, G, and B channels, which can be combined into a false color positive. See the attached images!
11.12.2024 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0@benrains.bsky.social Thanks for liking one of my photos! I’ve been a fan of yours for a very long time from either the LFPF or APUG.
11.12.2024 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa” — this is absolutely erotic, but I’m proud of it as art. So glad to be able to share this publicly … screw you, Meta.
Model: Amelie Belain (ameliebelain.bsky.social).
Not that it matters, but I was shooting a Fujifilm X-T5 with the excellent Fujinon 50mm f/1.0 here.
Love this shot. For what it’s worth, I’m delighted that we can share NSFW stuff on this platform!
11.12.2024 00:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I probably sound like a shill, but consider looking into ketamine therapy. I have treatment resistant reoccurring major depression, and ketamine has been life changing.
11.12.2024 00:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lovely portrait.
10.12.2024 22:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Oracle Anima” — Pretty sure this is my top image from 2024. This is an 8x10” hand coated cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle hot press paper with hand-applied 24k gold leaf. #cyanotype #altprocess #photography #altphoto
10.12.2024 06:05 — 👍 33 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Amelie Belain (@ameliebelain.bsky.social) on wet plate collodion. There was no way I could share the plate on the left on Instagram or Threads, and even the plate on the right got dinged for “sexual activity”. #wetplate #photography
10.12.2024 04:04 — 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0“Anima & Imago” — here’s a wet plate I was unable to share on IG/FB.
I also thought this would be a good test of Bluesky’s labels — this is “nudity” (artistic or non-erotic nudity). I mean, it’s both artistic and erotic?
Dave, I adore your work! Glad to connect with you here.
10.12.2024 00:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of my 2024 photographs, this one may be my favorite.
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