Workshops

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Conducted by Mike Robinson, acknowledged as a modern master of the medium, this workshop covers the perfected techniques used by commercial daguerreotypists in the 1850s. Participants will learn both modern and traditional techniques of polishing and will produce two mercury-developed, gilded daguerreotypes. Instructors: Mike Robinson and Mark Osterman.

Process Historian Mark Osterman published the first modern directions on how to make collodion emulsions in the third edition of Steve Anchell’s Darkroom Cookbook. In this workshop, Osterman will teach how to mix the emulsion, coat paper by hand, print, and process this amazing silver chloride emulsion.

Price includes a $60 materials fee.

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Learn to make your own wet collodion direct positives on glass during this three-day, hands-on workshop with Mark Osterman, internationally respected as a modern master of the medium. You will learn how to cut and clean glass plates, coat the plates with collodion, sensitize, expose, and process the final image.

Instructor: Mark Osterman

For the first time since the golden age of collodion, we are offering a truly unique experience to relive the wet plate canal excursions of the 1870s.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $200 materials fee.

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Instructor: Mark Osterman

Price includes a $90 materials fee.

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Join us for a week-long collodion negative shoot in the New England mill town of Manchester, CT.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $200 materials fee.

Make your own tintype portrait and still-life image in this special two-day workshop for beginners. Learn the basics of the 1850s wet collodion process used for making real tintypes.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $30 materials fee.

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In response to many requests, this is a special one-day lecture class for those who wish to learn more about the tintype through lectures on the evolution of the Melainotype and Ferrotype (also known as the tintype), a demonstration of the process, and viewing original images and tintype-era equipment from the extensive collection of the George Eastman House.

Instructor: Mark Osterman Price includes a $10 materials fee.

May be combined withTintype Making: the Basics on August 5-6, 2013 or August 8-9, 2013.

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Make your own tintype portrait and still-life image in this special two-day workshop for beginners. Learn the basics of the 1850s wet collodion process used for making real tintypes.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $30 materials fee.

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Ambrotypes and tintypes are the hottest alternative processes used in fine art photography today. In this intensive five-day workshop, participants will be guided through the basics of making these unique positive wet-collodion images by Mark Osterman, internationally recognized as a modern master of the collodion process. Price includes a $200 materials fee.

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This five-day, intensive, hands-on negative workshop is for the experienced collodion ambrotypist or tintypist who wants to get to the next level. Taught by Mark Osterman, participants will learn the theory that sets the collodion negative apart from ambrotypes and tintypes. The rare dry collodion process will also be taught, allowing the photographer to shoot negatives in the field without the need for a darkroom or silver bath.

Make your own ghost images in our first ever Spirit Photography Workshop. You’ll begin by learning the basics of making wet collodion tintypes by process historian Mark Osterman in the famous Scully & Osterman Skylight Studio. Then you’ll be shown the 19th-century secrets of making ghost imagery in a workshop that promises to be a great experience for everyone.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $60 materials fee.

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Unlike silver prints, the carbon print image is formed with the same pigments used for centuries in artists’ oil colors. The key to making carbon prints is a sheet of pigmented gelatin called a “tissue.” These can be purchased, but are expensive and limited to only a handful of colors. In this workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience in how to make carbon prints in any color using watercolors available at your local art store.

Instructor: Mark Osterman. Price includes a $60 materials fee.

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The opaltype, or milk glass positive, is an image on a white glass plate. Used primarily for portraits from the late 1860s to the 1930s, originals are difficult to find. Orotones, popularized by Edward Curtis, are images on clear glass with highlights of gold-colored powder. Learn both of these rare processes in the same workshop.

Instructor: Mark Osterman.

Price includes a $200 materials fee.

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