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Shooting Portraits of Civil War Reenactors Using the Age-Old Wet Collodion...
Wet plate photographer Rob Gibson believes that there are those among us who are “flame-keepers of the past,” and if such people exist, he is certainly one of them. Like the others out there who...
View ArticleThe Living Tin: Making Movies Using Only Collodion Tintype Photography
If you don’t really think about it, it’s easy to take video for granted. After all, you can pull out your cell phone and be recording video in a few seconds flat (even fewer if you have Pressy). But...
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Capturing 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...
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Interview: 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...
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Modern-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...
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Enchanting 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....
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The 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...
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‘The Neighbours Project’ Captures the Stories of Denver’s Homeless in Words...
Dylan Burr is a full-time artist from Denver, Colorado, but despite his busy schedule and full-time job, Burr recently embarked on a personal photography project on the side. The project, however,...
View ArticleFollow Around Justin Borucki as He Captures Wet Plate Collodion Street...
Photographer Justin Borucki has spent the better part of a year and a half capturing Chinatown through the age old process of wet plate collodion photography. In this In Focus mini-documentary,...
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Video: MythBusters’ Jamie Hyneman Gets His Tintype Portrait Taken
We never get sick of watching talented wet plate photographers at work. This process, made to look so simple by those who have been honing their craft for years, is actually incredibly complex and...
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Tintype Portraits of Silver Miners Created Using Silver They Mined
Here’s a creative (and super meta) idea for a photo project: photographer Sean Hawkey traveled to a silver mine in Peru and shot tintype portraits of the miners there using the silver they mined as...
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Immortalizing Evander ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield with a Wet Plate Portrait
I get a call on Saturday, February 28th, 2015, telling me “The Champ can give you an hour if you can pick him up at the hotel in 10 minutes”. “I’ll be there in 8,” I say to the person on the phone....
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‘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...
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How 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...
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This 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...
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Drone 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...
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How 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...
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Shooting 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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Shooting Wet Plate Collodion Portraits with 12,000Ws of Studio Lighting
This is a story about a collaboration to overcome 19th century technology problems using 21st century technology to produce well lit portraits. Luke White and I, Paul Alsop, are two English...
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These Are Likely the World’s First Wet Plate Collodion Photos of Snowflakes
Want a crazy photography challenge? Try photographing a snowflake. Want to make it even more challenging? Try doing it with the wet plate collodion process. That’s what a couple of photography...
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