wet plate
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 Kalinin
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 Kalinin
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,…
Photographer explains how to create and shoot wet plate photography
May 12, 2016
John Aldred
In the modern digital world, what is it that fascinates us about photography techniques that died out maybe a hundred years or more ago? Whatever…
The ABC of photography ‘types’
Apr 23, 2016
Daniela Bowker
Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph opened at Media Space, part of the Science Museum, in London last week. Using a mixture of images, artefacts,…
Photographer Creates Tintype Portraits Of Miners Using Silver They Dug Themselves
Jan 13, 2015
Tiffany Mueller
Sean Hawkey is go-getter. The type of photographer so motivated by his convictions and interest, he doesn’t think twice about undertaking a new endeavor, a…