QUESTIONS?
REQUESTS FOR CUSTOM PLATES?
FEEDBACK?
ANCIENT MONGOLIAN DIPLOMATIC THREATS?
I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
The dry plate process is awesome. For me, making and using dry plates is a hobby first and foremost. This endeavor has been and always will be a labor of love, a way to satisfy both my creative side as well as the engineering desire to tinker with technology.
Dry Plate Photography is an interest I share with you, the curious photographer willing to try my hand-crafted plates out for yourself. As we all do, I love to talk shop, compare notes, see results.
Forefront in my mind as I am making the plates is that you have as great an experience learning the in's and out's of dry plate photography as I did when I first got into them. It is a unique process in its own right, familiar to the wet plate photographer and film photographer yet still somehow different. There is a learning curve involved, and I encourage you to learn from the mistakes I made.
As a process which ushered in the start of amateur photography on a large scale, dry plate equipment of the day came in all sizes and formats. For this reason, I encourage requests for custom orders and I don't charge extra for the work. Custom plates follow a cost vs. size pricing scheme very similar to my stock plates .. just cover my material costs and keep my beer fridge stocked and I'm pretty happy. More information on plate sizes can be found on the sizing information page.
For all these reasons, hearing from you, the customer, is important to me. Please do not hesitate to send me questions, requests for clarification, feedback, and requests for custom orders using the contact form below. I tend to respond pretty quick, barring the couple of hours a night that I actually sleep or when I'm on travel or somewhere I don't have cell service. Remember: I can't help you if you don't ask!
Dry Plate Photography is an interest I share with you, the curious photographer willing to try my hand-crafted plates out for yourself. As we all do, I love to talk shop, compare notes, see results.
Forefront in my mind as I am making the plates is that you have as great an experience learning the in's and out's of dry plate photography as I did when I first got into them. It is a unique process in its own right, familiar to the wet plate photographer and film photographer yet still somehow different. There is a learning curve involved, and I encourage you to learn from the mistakes I made.
As a process which ushered in the start of amateur photography on a large scale, dry plate equipment of the day came in all sizes and formats. For this reason, I encourage requests for custom orders and I don't charge extra for the work. Custom plates follow a cost vs. size pricing scheme very similar to my stock plates .. just cover my material costs and keep my beer fridge stocked and I'm pretty happy. More information on plate sizes can be found on the sizing information page.
For all these reasons, hearing from you, the customer, is important to me. Please do not hesitate to send me questions, requests for clarification, feedback, and requests for custom orders using the contact form below. I tend to respond pretty quick, barring the couple of hours a night that I actually sleep or when I'm on travel or somewhere I don't have cell service. Remember: I can't help you if you don't ask!