Teaching Eastlake High School
Last week I went back to my roots of photography, Eastlake High School (not the first place I did photography but...) to teach demonstrations to all the periods of photo class. My old teacher, Mr. Hinkle, has been following my work for awhile and reached out to me asking to go and talk about the Wet Plate Collodion process and the history of it, then to do a demo in the dark room and shooting portraits outside.
As many people know, I'm not a very good public speaker, so for me to do something like this is a pretty big deal. But luckily, everything went smoothly and I like to believe I captured some students attention while talking about the process before doing the demo.
A week before doing the demos I went to the school and picked out a spot where I would be shooting, and I found this beautiful Ivy wall where I had nice open shade all the day, and also it was close to the darkroom!
^Photos above were taken by one of the high school students, Anthony Labrador! Thank you Anthony!^
My only mess ups is that during 2nd period teachings I accidentally dropped a plate on the floor and a student caught it on film (oh well....)
More photos to come from behind the scenes soon! Will update as soon as I get those images.
Plates below are the best ones that came out! And also very appropriate for the release of Star Wars!
Thank you to Mr. Hinkle and to Eastlake High School for having me at the school and to be able to share the Wet Plate Collodion process with you and your students!
5x7 Ferrotype. 2 second exposure
5x7 Ferrotype. 3 second exposure.
5x7 Ferrotype. 3 second exposure.
I would also like to note that on the second day of teaching I wore a white tank top underneath my flannel and I didn't get a drop of silver on it, even after packing up all my chemistry.
