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Wet Plate Collodion Passport Photos with a Polaroid Miniportrait Camera
Passport photos on wet plate collodion aren’t legally compliant, but you’re guaranteed to have fun making them. I shot wet plate collodion passport photos using a Polaroid Miniportrait camera. The...
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Recreating the Look of 1850s Tintypes in Digital with Math and Science
While I was visiting San Francisco, Kristy Headley, a dear friend and fellow engineer, showed me her studio. There I was lucky enough to sit for her while she did some vintage tintyping. Tintyping was...
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The Winning Photos of the 2019 Wet Plate Competition
Modern Collodion has just announced the winners of the 2019 Wet Plate Competition, the second annual contest for wet plate collodion photographers around the world after launching last year. This...
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A Multi-Plate, Multi-Lens Daguerreotype Panorama
I’ve been experimenting non-stop with a few new daguerreotype techniques lately, and however promising the results are looking so far, those experiments are slow going. But here’s something I thought...
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Light Formulation: Statement of an Artist
I always resisted writing artist statements and bios. In school, that part of every assignment or exhibition was the most agonizing. It felt overly simplistic to just describe what the viewer was...
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This Photographer Put a Full Wet Plate Photography Darkroom on a Tricycle
Michaël Tirat, a wet plate photographer based in Bordeaux, France, has created something pretty special. In an attempt to make his photography services more portable, he’s created a mobile darkroom on...
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This Photographer Colorizes His Wet Plate Photos with Striking Results
Fine art photographer Borut Peterlin was recently commissioned to shoot some ambrotypes by costume designer Alan Hranitelj, but he went a few steps beyond your standard wet plate collodion...
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Behind the Scenes: Shooting Wet Plate Portraits of the Cast of Little Women
Now these are some cast portraits we can really get behind. On-set photographer Wilson Webb recently got the chance to photograph the entire cast of Best Picture nominee Little Women, but instead of...
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This Animation Was Made from Seven Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes
Photographer Markus Hofstätter has made a name for himself by pushing wet plate photography to new heights, trying things others have never even thought to do. Today brings yet another example of his...
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These Tintype Self-Portraits Encourage People to #StayAtHome and Self-Isolate
Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter wanted to use his art to encourage people to #stayathome during the coronavirus pandemic, so he took a series of self-portraits that are meant to drive home a...
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Photographer Converts Instax Camera to Shoot Tiny Wet Plate Photos
Italian photographer Ursula Ferrara‘s Lomography Lomo’Instant Wide camera is a bit different than others you’ll find. Instead of shooting Instax Wide instant photos, it’s used for capturing tiny wet...
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Duo Shoots a Wet Plate Photo Together Despite a 7000km Separation
With the current state of affairs, photographers have been coming up with unique ways to exercise their craft remotely. Photographer Markus Hofstaetter decided he wanted to make a portrait with a...
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Wet Plate Collodion Portraits of Frontline Medical Workers
It hasn’t been easy being a portrait photographer during a pandemic. I opened my tintype portrait studio in February of 2020 with visions of goofy vintage photo remakes and smiling families gracing my...
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Photographer 3D Prints Wet Plate Photos to Create ‘Touchable Bokeh’
Photographer Markus Hofstätter had been designing parts for his cameras and 3D printing them at home when the idea to try something new struck him: 3D printing photographs. After a lot of trial and...
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Great Reads in Photography: January 24, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! The Very...
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Wet Plate Collodion Portraits of Burn Victims
Clément Marion, a French photographer in his early twenties, shoots only with analog processes. In his latest project, he decided to use wet plate collodion to capture intimate portraits of burn...
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This Wet Plate Photo Took the Collaboration of 90 People to Produce
For the past five years, I have organized an annual photographic Tableaux Vivant based on classic paintings. I have included anywhere from 15, or in the instance of my 2021 construction, No Vaccine...
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Wet Plate Portraits With an Affordable Large Format ‘Bokeh Monster’
Well-known wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter recently purchased an old wet-plate camera, repaired it to a working condition, and added two lenses to it with the help of his 3D printer. An...
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How to Turn an Ice Fishing Tent into a Large Mobile Darkroom
Although large-format photography may be an intricate and slow process often shot in a studio, it doesn’t mean that it can’t be taken outdoors with a little ingenuity. Photographer Markus Hofstätter...
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Combining a 170-Year Old Wet Plate Process with Food Photography
Photographer Markus Hofstätter — known for his collodion wet-plate photography expertise — decided to try something different and used the 170-year old shooting process to capture incredibly detailed...
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