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Mirror Self-Portrait Captured Using a Wet Plate Camera
Yesterday we shared an old school mirror self-portrait from 1917, captured by a young Australian fight pilot named Thomas Baker on a Kodak camera. After seeing that image, photographer Sam Cornwell...
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Using a Gigantic Wet Plate Van Camera to Tell the Stories of People in America
Earlier this year, we shared a beautiful short documentary, titled “Silver & Light“, which featured Los Angeles-based photographer Ian Ruhter and the gigantic wet plate photographs he shoots using...
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Mind-Bending Reflection Portraits Shot Using a Wet Plate Camera
Last week we issued a challenge asking readers to shoot a creative mirror self-portrait using an alternative style of photography. Reader Agustin Barrutia took us up on that challenge, and created a...
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BTS: Creating a Wet Plate Portrait Using an Ordinary Negative and an Enlarger
Slovenia-based professional photographer Borut Peterlin was recently tasked with shooting a portrait of painter/illustrator/author Milan Erič for influential Slovenian magazine Mladina. Peterlin...
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Create Digital Wet Plates by Shooting a Photo on Your Computer Monitor
We’ve shared some interesting digital to analog conversions here in the past (e.g. printing iPhone photos using an enlarger), and here’s another one: create a digital wet plate by shooting a photo...
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How to Use a Holga as a Handheld Wet Plate Camera
Wet plate photographer Ian Ruhter has received a good deal of attention over the past year for using a custom camera van to create giant collodion process metal photos. When he’s not turning large...
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Tutorial: How to Create a Wet-Plate Look Photography Using Photoshop
Faking the look of old films is becoming ubiquitous in the world of mobile photo sharing apps, but so far the popular apps have stuck with various films and not older photographic processes. If you...
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Paintball 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...
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Capturing Stories of People Letting Go of the Past with a Giant Wet Plate Van...
Photographer Ian Ruhter has released the latest video in his beautiful Silver & Light series, which follows along as he creates portraits around the United States using a giant wet plate camera...
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Wet 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...
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Collaborative Project Using Gas Masks to Draw Attention to Wet Plate Photography
The Mask Series is a collaboration between wet plate photographers around the world who are trying to raise public awareness of the historical photographic process that they’re so passionate about....
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Photographer 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 ArticleIan Ruhter’s Wet Plate Photography with a Giant Van Camera
Ian Ruhter is a Los Angeles-based photographer that creates massive wet plate photographs using a giant camera van. We featured a popular short film about his work back in April, and now here’s...
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Photographer Uses His iPhone’s Glass Back as a Collodion Process Wet Plate
iPhone users who want to flaunt their inner photography geek can buy special skins or cases that transform their phone into a camera look-alike. That option wasn’t awesome enough for photographer Jake...
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Civil War Reenactments Photographed with a Wet Plate Camera
At first glance, New York-based photographer Richard Barnes‘ Civil War photos might look like they were taken from some museum or historical photographic archive. Look a little closer, however, and...
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Repurpose 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...
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Mirror Self-Portrait Captured Using a Wet Plate Camera
Yesterday we shared an old school mirror self-portrait from 1917, captured by a young Australian fight pilot named Thomas Baker on a Kodak camera. After seeing that image, photographer Sam Cornwell...
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Using a Gigantic Wet Plate Van Camera to Tell the Stories of People in America
Earlier this year, we shared a beautiful short documentary, titled “Silver & Light“, which featured Los Angeles-based photographer Ian Ruhter and the gigantic wet plate photographs he shoots using...
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This Gigantic Tintype Camera Shoots the Analog Equivalent of Gigapixel Photos
Gigapixel photography is all the rage these days, as photographers all over the world compete to hold the record for “world’s largest photo,” but one photographer in San Francisco is participating in...
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Wedding Tintype Portraits with a Massive 20×24 1800′s Camera
When my wife Sara and I finally decided to start planning our wedding (after a crazy Muppet Proposal proposal that seemed to tickle quite a few people’s fancy) one thing that became very important to...
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