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Beginner's Guide to Wet Plate Photography

By Lyssa Merritt

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2020
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About this lesson

An approachable entry point into wet plate tintypes that walks through pouring collodion onto a tin plate, sensitizing it in silver nitrate for three minutes, developing and fixing, and recommends a beginner chemistry kit rather than mixing solutions from scratch.