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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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Failed Experiment: Shooting Wet Plate with a Mamiya 645 and Polaroid Film Back
Photographer Markus Hofstätter is known for pushing the art of wet plate photography in new and exciting ways, but… of course… it doesn’t always work out. That’s what happened in this video, where...
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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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A Photographer’s Dream: The 145-Year-Old Dallmeyer 3B Petzval Lens
Photographer Markus Hofstaetter has been looking for what he calls his “dream lens” for some time, visiting flea markets and using his contacts to try and locate the Dallmeyer 3B Petzval lens, circa...
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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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Using a Zeiss 300mm Lens for a Wet Plate Self Portrait Project
Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter recently acquired a Zeiss 300mm f/4.5 lens, and although it produced beautiful results, the process of getting to a finished image was filled with numerous...
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Wet Plate Pictorialism in the Modern World: ‘Maiden Pouring Milk’
The Accademia del Disegno (“Academy of Design”), which opened in 1563 Florence, Italy was the world’s first academy of art. Prior to that time, to succeed with a career in the arts, a would-be artist...
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An In-Depth Look at the Rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral
National Geographic has published an unprecedented look at the Notre Dame cathedral reconstruction two years after the fire that devastated the historic building. [Read More]
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How a Photographer Revived and Modernized a Massive Flatbed Scanner
Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter took it upon himself to bring a giant 73-kilogram (160-pounds) ultra-large format flatbed scanner back to life, a process that took three full months. [Read More]
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Building a Wet Plate Frankenstein Camera and Shooting Ghost Photos
Photographer Corrine Gretton-West booked a wet plate workshop with me before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Two years later we were finally able to do it. [Read More]
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Photographer Builds Giant Camera and Darkroom Bus
Photographer Bill Hao from Vancouver, Canada, spent two years building a huge oakwood camera. It shoots gigantic wet plate collodion photos measuring 32x48 inches. [Read More]
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How 21st-Century Tech Relaunched a 19th-Century Photo Studio
Tintype Photographic Studio, Silver and Cedar, has exploded in popularity over the last three years, largely thanks to an enthralled TikTok audience. [Read More]
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A Rare Horse-Drawn 19th-Century Photography Studio Is Up For Auction
A traveling photography studio that was pulled around the English seaside by horses from the 1860s onwards will go up for auction. [Read More]
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Photographer Captures Motocross Riders on a Wet Plate Camera
Photographer Matt Alberts used an antiquated wet plate tintype camera to cover the modern world of freeride motocross. [Read More]
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Historical New England Photos Destined for the Trash Saved by Photographer
A documentary photographer and photo preservationist painstakingly restored thousands of glass plate photographs that reveal what life was like in New England 160 years ago. [Read More]
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