Say goodbye to cyanide: a less toxic approach to fixing wet collodion plates
Elizabeth Graves experiments with Waldack’s Formulas for Collodion Positives “Formula No. 1. For Dead-Whites” followed by a sodium thiosulfate fixer.
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Wet-Plate Collodion Process – Ambrotypes
Alexey Alexeev talks us though the wet plate collodion, or ambrotype process. From history to final print.
Ancient ways, modern views
Calotypy for the 21st Century; Pt1: Dr Hugh Diamond’s Single Solution Process: Christopher Wright gives us a history of Calotypes and explains the process.
The world of plate photography
Rediscovering and revisualizing the arqaic plate processes, an excerpt from “Diffusion magazine, volume II” written by Phil Nesmith.
The wetplate collodion process
Ken Watson, a serious “wet head” shares his joy and experience of making wet plate collodions.