Digital vs Colldion.. No Contest!

[mtbbrian]

As most of you know, my friend from college is doing colldion and ambrotypes.
He recently emailed me two portraits he did using his Nikon D2H and one that he took using the ambrotype process. So I thought I'd share them with you.

Both are good photographs, but the ambrotype shows an incredible amount of character and has a quality of light that is unreal.
He has a small studio set up in his garage, I hope I can post some photographs of him making a photograph soon. It is quite a process.
You can check out more of his latest images at his site.
http://www.collodion.com

Here are a few of his words from an email exchange we had recently about his work.
""It seems that Collodion has its own story to tell about people. I'm beginning to grasp the concept of what I am doing. It's about social identity and individual existence - the process refines what I "see" in the sitters I photograph. The people in my photographs have more presence - more being, than they would have if you met them in everyday life. I'm not simply a social observer, but a kind of existential diagnostician.""