Margaret Adams
Jody Ake
Stephen Berkman
Jayne Hinds Bidaut
Gary Briechle
Linda Briscoe
David Buckland
Dana Buckley
Melitte Buchman
Julia Cart
Ron Cowie
John Delaney
Jillen Doroan
Ian Doyle
Will Dunniway
Jesseca Ferguson
Len Fohn
Luther Gerloch
Rob Gibson
Joy Goldkind
Clay Harmon
Jeff Hurwitz
John Isaac
Kenji Ishii
Quinn Jacobson
Devon John
Mark Katzman
Susan King
Kerik Kouklis
Kim Kulp
Deborah Luster
Sally Mann
Robert Maxwell
Pau Maynes
Michael Mazzeo
Monty McCutchen
Scott McMahon
Raymond Meeks
Ken Merfeld
Marc Montplaisir
Ray Morganweck
Stephen Moriarity
Denis Oberkampf
Lori Oden
Shunsaku Otsuka
David Prifti
Dave Puntel
Ann Smithwick
Shin Sugino
Paul Taylor
Carole Trufleau
Toshi Ueshina
Hayward Wilkerson
Steve Wilson
Bill Westheimer

and more...

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Interns

 

Shaylyn Olzak

Heather Wetzel

Christine Elfman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Wet-Plate Collodion Photography Private Tutorials

 


Salt print from collodion negative made
by Steve Wilson, at Scully & Osterman studio

SCULLY & OSTERMAN offer private tutorials, workshops and advanced classes year-round in their skylight studio in Rochester, New York. They have taught hundreds of artists, photographers, living history reenactors and museum conservators. (See partial list at left.)


salt print from collodion negative by Kim Kulp in studio

Tutorials are personalized to meet the needs of the artist-photographer with formats ranging from 1/9 plates to 11 x 14 inches (and other mammoth sizes) in the studio, traveling darkroom and/or on location.

Lessons include ambrotypes, negatives for developing-out paper (modern paper), orotones and ambrotypes in the enlarger, making printing papers and more....

Advanced tutorials include making negatives for printing-out paper (salt, albumen, cyanotype...), use of certain formats, troubleshooting, mixing chemicals, honing skills, and more...

Don't forget to check workshop listings; we now offer Advanced workshops.

 


Ambrotype by Shaylyn Olzak (made with enlarger)

 


France (right) talks about salt prints




Ambrotype by Christine Elfman made in S&O studio

from negative by Heather Wetzel made in S&O studio




ambrotype made by Gary Briechle
during tutorial


"When we were learning, no help was available, so we have made it a point to answer questions by phone, e-mail and through this website. Even experienced photographers find collodion takes years to master.

" It is our plan to continue trying to find a balance between publishing, teaching and making fine art images. We have examined many aspects of the process, including new uses. While we continue our study of collodion, our latest research extends into the study of calotypes, the advantages and permanence of waxed salt prints, and other 19th century processes of benefit to the arts.

"We look forward to the opportunity to continue this practice, while sharing our results with others."

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman

 


Mark helps Gary Briechle varnish his plate

 

 

The Ostermans have given demonstrations, workshops and lectures for museums, universities, historical societies, including:

 

Harry Ransom Center, U of Texas, Austin, TX
Alchemy Studios, Phoenix, AZ
Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass, CO
Art New England, Bennington, VT
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
New England School of Photography, Boston, MA
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Maison Niepce, St. Loup de Varennes, France
Photographer's Formulary, Condon, Montana
Diputacion Provincial de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
Century Darkroom, Toronto, Canada
Nat'l Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Segura Publishing, Mesa, AZ
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD
Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ
Eckley Miners Museum, Scranton, PA
Eastfield Village, Nassau, NY
Historic Richmondtown, Staten Island, NY
Fleetwood Museum, N. Plainfield, NJ


 

 

 

For more information, e-mail Scully & Osterman

 

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