Tag Archives: photography

Headless Portraits From the 19th Century

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 […]

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. […]

Manuals

Old camera’s ar had to find, but manuals even harder. In my effort to save old camera’s from destruction and filling up landfills and garbagecans, i come acros many manuals. In my spare time I scan them and publish them on this website for old photographic stuff. Feel free to ask me if I’ve come […]

Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of […]