Chris and Chauney
Chris Engman asked if I would shoot some plates at his wedding reception a while back. They actually eloped in a small airplane in flight way before but wanted to have a reception to satisfy the family. Weddings and large bulky cameras with complicated processes don’t mix but thought it would be a great experience so I said yes. The location required a dark place to sensitize the plates so I set up a darkroom in the bathroom at Chauney’s uncles gallery in Fremont. I used the Century master studio camera on a rolling stand and the Bausch and Lomb 400mm f4.5. There was an alley next to the gallery that was a perfect place to shoot without any traffic. The weather was typical Seattle, heavy overcast with the occasional light sprinkle. The exposures outside were all shot at f4.5 at two seconds.
I did shoot a couple of smaller plates inside the gallery at 8 seconds.
