Unique Portrait On Glass Plate - Wet Plate Collodion Technique

The word Ambrotype is translated in Ancient Greek as "Immortal Impression".

A wet plate photographer makes a film base on a piece of glass or metal using collodion, submerges it in a silver nitrate solution to make it light sensitive, and then exposes the photograph usually in an old style wood bellows camera box.

During this session your teacher, Marcin, will be using large format camera to create your very own and handcrafted portraits on black glass plate. Marcin will introduce you in short to the history of this unique process and will ask you to sit in front of…

A wet plate photographer makes a film base on a piece of glass or metal using collodion, submerges it in a silver nitrate solution to make it light sensitive, and then exposes the photograph usually in an old style wood bellows camera box. The process is called wet plate because…