Michael Zhang · Jan 09, 2013 The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of daguerreotype photographs captured over the past two centuries. In addition to browsing the technically perfect ones that document history and people, it’s also interesting to look at metal plates that are flawed. The Public Domain Review writes that plates were extremely susceptible […]
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Deze foto’s zijn genomen door de Japanse fotograaf Hiroji Kubota tussen 1979 en 1987. Ondanks dat de foto’s al wat jaartjes oud zijn, denken wij dat ze een prima beeld geven van het huidige Noord-Korea, waar veranderingen heel niet of heel langzaam gaan.— met dank aan froot.nl
Although some of these images might look like a modern day photography and some of them like painted pictures, actually it is real colored photographies, taken at the beginning of the 20th century Paris (France). It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which you are used to see […]
Here’s something you don’t see every day, so I think it deserves a post. The other day I was alerted by my friend Rob McElroy about the existence of an antique store that recently purchased a large photography estate. Among other things Rob collects antique books on photography and asked me to investigate if I […]
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It’s not easy to remember life before Photoshop. When we do, we think of a world where picture were straightforward, always showing exactly what happened to be in front of the lens when the exposure was taken. But that’s not entirely the case. Trick photography has been around for centuries, and even though the folks […]
Michael Zhang · Dec 18, 2012 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 sheets of metal into photographs, he’s sometimes working on the opposite side of the spectrum. […]
Paris, city of DSLR filming and lights Posted on December 11, 2012 2 Finally we made it over to Paris for a long weekend of lights, Christmas inspired shopping and exploring. But most of all, to shoot a small movie explaining what this ‘French Vintage photography-thing’ is all about. The first days where spent looking for […]
Michael Zhang · Dec 16, 2012 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 displayed on your computer monitor. […]