Andrew’s Very Merry Christmas

As many of you know, my husband Bill’s recent photographic projects have involved creating tintypes with several of the local models. (You can see his work on Tumblr at http://lawrencesview.tumblr.com/). As you scroll through his blog, you’ll see several photos of a stuffed panda. This is Andrew – our exposure test model. One of the challenges of working with wet plate collodian is getting your exposure correct. So Bill started creating a plate of Andrew as his first plate from any shoot. Andrew is, after all, the perfect test subject – he’s black and white and very patient. He can sit still for 10-15 second exposures without any problems.

So here is the tintype Bill created yesterday as the first plate of the day.

Frequently, we’ll have a  model we’re working with pose with Andrew – for her first plate – so Bill can compare the exposure with the first plate and make any changes he needs to make in his camera settings.

So over the past several months, Bill has taken photos of several models with Andrew – and I’ll usually grab a photo of the model and Andrew with either my phone or my camera.

Well yesterday – I wanted to do something more than just take a quick photo of Andrew with a model. So I asked Rebecca Lawrence, the wonderful model we were working with, if she would pose for a few Christmas photos with Andrew. Needless to say, Rebecca and I had a great time taking the photos.

And while I don’t share my photos of models here on my blog very often, I couldn’t resist sharing several from this set. As you can see – Andrew had a wonderful time posing with Rebecca!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would really like to thank Rebecca for all her help creating this fun set of photos. She took my idea of Andrew’s Christmas photo and turned it into a fabulous time for all of us 🙂