Article · EMULSIVE
An Introduction to Wet Plate Collodion
By Robert Marsters
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2016
About this lesson
A practitioner's five-phase outline of wet plate collodion — mixing collodion, coating the plate, sensitizing in silver nitrate, exposing and developing/fixing — with notes on chemical handling and storage and when it's worth taking a hands-on workshop.
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