Portraits of fire and fury

  • Kat Ciemiega

New blog post with memories and behind the scenes from a 19c. wet collodion photography workshop. My drawing skills are somewhere between a 3-year old and Picasso. When I was preparing concepts for the next portrait photoshoot and using the wet plate collodion technique at Dave Shrimpton's workshop, I've noted the scenes, the light set-up and also drew them loosely to visualise, as you'll see on an example below. The concepts were around the reactions to recent online events, as well as portraying fictional personas. More: https://www.katciemiega.com/post/portraits-of-fire-and-fury