wet plate
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….
Photographer mixes old with new – shooting Halloween wet plates filmed on a 360° camera
Nov 2, 2017
John Aldred
I’ve seen some rather interesting Halloween photos cross my desk over the past week or so. Few that are quite as interesting as this project…
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
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…
This drone-mounted large format camera made the world’s first aerial tintype photograph
Jun 14, 2017
John Aldred
Combining levels of technology from vastly different times is often very fascinating. Sometimes it’s amusing, and occasionally it fails miserable. This time, failure is definitely…
Photographer uses a 19th-century technique to capture haunting portraits of children
Jun 5, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
In the age of digital images, Spanish photographer Jacqueline Roberts goes over 160 years into the past. She uses a 19th-century photographic process to create…
The world’s largest wet plate camera captures heart warming personal stories
Jan 10, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
After building his amazing truck camera, Ian Ruhter went traveling across the US, taking huge wet plate photos. During the filming of a documentary about…
Photographer creates celebrity tintype portraits at the Sundance Film Festival
Aug 2, 2016
John Aldred
With film’s second demise looking more imminent with each Fuji announcement, wet plate photography gets more and more appealing. Don’t get me wrong, I primarily shoot digital,…
Prepare, shoot and develop wet plate collodion through the eyes of the photographer
Jul 27, 2016
John Aldred
Photographers today often complain about the amount of time they have to sit at the computer processing images. When you see what wet plate photographers…