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Beginner's Guide to Wet Plate Photography
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
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.
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