wet plate
This photographer creates wet plate ambrotypes with a 16×20 camera he built himself
Jan 23, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
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 Kalinin
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,…
Shooting steampunk style wet plates handheld
Feb 20, 2018
John Aldred
Shooting wetplate is a bit of a feat all by itself. Sure, it’s getting a little more common than it was a decade or two ago,…
The entire start to finish process to make ultra large format wet plate photographs
Nov 16, 2017
John Aldred
Despite picking up a little in popularity in the last year or two, wet plate photography is still quite an alien process to many photographers….
We are giving away a gorgeous Lomography Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens
Oct 10, 2017
Udi Tirosh
UPDATE: this giveaway is now over, thanks everyone for playing and a huge thanks for Lomography for the prize. Hit the bottom to see if…
This is the oldest known portrait of a U.S. President
Aug 18, 2017
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
There’s an interesting story about the oldest presidential portrait known so far. The sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams sat for a photographer in August…