Category Archives: ancient photo printing proces

The First Photo

The First Photo A personal mission to see where and how it happened. Harald Johnson · Oct 02, 2013 Rediscovered in 1952 by photo historians Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, the “First Photograph” was first depicted in this well-known reproduction that was retouched by Helmut Gernsheim prior to its international release. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from […]

Living on the edge

1896-1907: Victorian Cliff House “Cliff House has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. In 1896, Adolph Sutro built a new Cliff House, a seven story Victorian Chateau, called by some “the Gingerbread Palace”, below his estate on the bluffs of Sutro Heights. Great throngs of San Franciscans arrived on steam trains, bicycles, […]

How to Use a Holga as a Handheld Wet Plate Camera

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. […]

Nice vintage project of Anna Green

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 […]

Create Digital Wet Plates by Shooting a Photo on Your Computer Monitor

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. […]

Tony Peri is the Indiana Jones of photography.

Courtesy of  mainlinephoto blog Tony Peri is a guy with a mission in life. He is a local artist/photographer who specialises in historic and alternative printing processes. He is helping bring about a modern day resurrection of old skool printing technique’s from a century ago. When you first meet Tony you would never suspect that […]