Category: wet plate

The world’s largest wet plate camera captures heart warming personal stories

Dunja Djudjic

After building his amazing truck camera, Ian Ruhter went traveling across the US, taking huge wet plate photos. During the filming of a documentary about the residents in Slab City, Ian was attempting to make the world’s largest ambrotype. Actor Gary Oldman joined Ian on set and documented his process, as a colleague and a […]

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Photographer creates celebrity tintype portraits at the Sundance Film Festival

John Aldred

With film’s second demise looking more imminent with each Fuji announcement, wet plate photography gets more and more appealing. Don’t get me wrong, I primarily shoot digital, but I enjoy the process of creating analogue. It not because it “forces me to slow down” or anything arty. It’s just relaxing, especially developing it. In this video, portrait photographer […]

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Prepare, shoot and develop wet plate collodion through the eyes of the photographer

John Aldred

Photographers today often complain about the amount of time they have to sit at the computer processing images. When you see what wet plate photographers had to go through for every single shot, it doesn’t seem so bad. In Be The Collodionist from photographer Monsieur Nède, we see what life used to be like for photographers. […]

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Photographer explains how to create and shoot wet plate photography

John Aldred

In the modern digital world, what is it that fascinates us about photography techniques that died out maybe a hundred years or more ago? Whatever it is, you can satisfy your desires a little bit with this video featuring wet plate photographer David Rambow, who walks us through his thoughts and process when working in this […]

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