wet plate

    The weird lens guy came to my studio to shoot wet plates
    Jul 3, 2019 Markus Hofstätter

    Some time ago I did a project together with Mathieu Stern. Back then, we communicated via Skype. Because of that, I was super happy to…

    A multi plate, multi lens daguerreotype panorama
    May 9, 2019 Anton Orlov

    I’ve been experimenting non-stop with a few new daguerreotype techniques, and however promising the results are looking so far, those experiments are slow going, and…

    It took six months to create these ultra large 3D wet plates
    Apr 15, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Austrian photographer Markus Hofstätter has published plenty of interesting wet plate projects. In his latest project, he brings together large format wet plates and stereo…

    This photographer shot his own wet plate passport photos
    Mar 21, 2019 John Aldred

    I love seeing the wet plate experiments of Austrian photographer Markus Hofstätter. He’s so prolific with them that when he decides to do something interesting it…

    This photographer creates wet plate ambrotypes with a 16×20 camera he built himself
    Jan 23, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Photographer Giles Clement has performed some interesting experiments, such as mounting a large format camera to a drone. He also made his own 16×20 camera,…

    Watch this ultra macro video of the collodion wet plate process
    Nov 13, 2018 Markus Hofstätter

    Normally I create photographs. This time, however, the final product is a video where you can follow the change of crystals/salts from the collodion wet…

    This photographer turned a house into a camera to shoot the world’s largest wet plate photograph
    Oct 30, 2018 John Aldred

    As a fan of wet plate collodion, I’ve been following the work of photographer Ian Ruhter for a few years now. I first found him…

    Photographing a rock band on wet plate with 7500Ws of strobe power
    Oct 18, 2018 John Aldred

    Photographing a group of people on large format wet plate needs a lot of power. Even with a relatively wide f/5.6 aperture, with an ISO…

    This new technique recovers even the most damaged daguerreotypes
    Jun 26, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

    Daguerreotypes break down with time and can eventually become ruined and unrecognizable. But researchers at Western University in Canada have created a new technique that…

    This is what it’s like to shoot ultra large format wet plate macro in a cherry blossom tree
    Apr 19, 2018 Markus Hofstätter

    Because the snowdrop shoot what so much fun, I wanted to do something like that again. After I saw the cherry blossoms on my tree,…