The World’s Smallest Wet Plate Camera
Kevin Klein has a hobby of miniaturizing Victorian technology, and recently he made the world’s smallest wet plate camera using 1/32-inch plywood and other wood materials. The camera is only a little...
View ArticleRepurpose a Vintage Polaroid Camera for Wet Plate Photography
Have an old Polaroid camera lying around collecting dust? Did you know that you can use it for wet plate collodion photography? AlternativePhotography writes, Most collodion photographers are using...
View ArticlePaintball Battlefields Photographed Using a Wet Plate Camera
Photographer and photography student Eric Omori has an interesting project that combines the modern with the historical. He has been capturing paintball wars using wet plate photography. The project...
View ArticleWet Plate Collodion Photography from a First-Person Point of View
Here’s a video that may be very interesting to you if you’ve never tried your hand at creating a tintype with wet plate collodion photography. Oklahoma City-based photographer Mark Zimmerman recently...
View ArticlePhotographer David Emitt Adams Creates Tintype Photos Using Rusty Old Cans
Using discarded tin cans found on the hot Arizona desert ground, David Emitt Adams has created timeless pieces he calls Conversations with History. The cans are branded with tintype pictures,...
View ArticleBeautiful Landscape Photographs Exposed Onto Handblown Glass Vessels
Artist Emma Howell‘s landscape images are unlike any we’ve ever run across. Not because she’s capturing something unique, or using a process we’ve not seen before. They are unique because her images,...
View ArticleI Will Not…: Humorous Photos that Capture Modern Vices in an Age-Old Way
From Los Angeles based photographer Jamie Johnson comes a unique series of photographs that juxtapose the past and the present in a fascinating way: large format wet plate collodion photos of children...
View ArticleA Look at The Unknown and Controversial Photography Career of Lewis Carroll
Portrait of Charles Dodgson, aka: Lewis Carroll He’s known as the author behind the famed Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by most, but the breadth of his disciplines goes far beyond literature....
View ArticleCapturing Yosemite Valley with the World’s Largest Wet Plate Collodion Camera
Two years after photographer Ian Ruhter tried to capture photographs of the Yosemite Valley using the world’s largest wet plate collodion camera and suffered a “devastating failure,” he decided to...
View ArticleInterview: Conversation with Tintype Artist Keliy Anderson-Staley
Kevin, 10×8″ wet-plate collodion tintype, 2010. Keliy Anderson-Staley is an assistant professor of photography at the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery...
View ArticleModern-Day Street Photographs of England Captured with a 130-Year-Old Camera
What’s a photographer to do when they’re in possession of a 130-year-old wooden camera and a 100-year-old lens, capable of capturing images using the wet plate collodion process? Well, if you’re...
View ArticleEnchanting and Surreal Wet Plate Collodion Photography by Alex Timmermans
From portraits to surreal scenes that feel as if they were pulled out of some long-lost storybook, the wet plate collodion photography of Alex Timmermans is unlike any we’ve seen or featured before....
View ArticleThe Road to Wolfboro: A Cinematic Tribute to the Beauty of Wet Plate...
Skateboard company Element recently put together a wonderful little mini-documentary titled The Road to Wolfboro. In it, a dedicated film crew follows photographer Brian Gaberman around as he shares...
View Article‘The Rain Maker': How I Shot a Conceptual Wet Plate Collodion Photograph
During past few weeks I have been working on a new picture I had in mind. This time I already knew the title: “The Rain Maker.” It’s a picture made with the collodion photographic process that was...
View ArticleHow I Turned a Caravan Into a Mobile Darkroom for Wet Plate Photos
Having failed woodworking at school, probably the worst thing I could have done is venture into the world of wet plate photography. Back in 2012, I learned the dark art of the silver stuff, just...
View ArticleShooting a Swan Lake Photo with Wet Plate Collodion Photography
Wet plate collodion photographer Alex Timmermans recently shot a new photo titled “Swan Lake” for his surreal Story Telling project. Here’s a look at how the image was made. Timmermans says that the...
View ArticleThis is the Wet Plate Collodion Process in 6 Seconds
Want to see how wet-plate collodion photography is done but have the attention span of a goldfish? Our buddy Sam Cornwell over at Phogotraphy has created an unusual step-by-step wet plate walkthrough...
View ArticleDrone Captures Wet Plate Camera, and Vice Versa
Last week, RIT photography professor Willie Osterman held the 2015 RIT Photo MFA picnic in the front yard of his home in Bristol, New York. To commemorate the gathering, he pulled out a giant camera...
View ArticleHow to Make a Portrait Look Like Wet Plate Collodion Using Photoshop
Love the look of wet plate collodion photographs? Did you know you can give any digital photo that same look using Photoshop? It’s a technique that can be learned in about 10 minutes. Retoucher Antti...
View ArticleShooting the World’s Smallest Tintypes with a Minox Subminiature Camera
How small can you go when it comes to wet plate collodion photography? Photographer Anton Orlov of The Photo Palace recently experimented with this question by shooting thumbnail-sized 8x11mm tintypes...
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