Tintype Salon

06/05/2024

Ladies and Gentlemen, after a long absence I'm delighted to announce that I have opened my new studio in London. Should you plan a trip to UK, be my guest. Should you know anyone on the Isles, please make them aware.

www.ambrotypista.london

20/06/2017

"When you make something, when you go through the process, all the steps and at the end you have a finished product that you made with your own hands, it's a reflection of your own soul."

A beautiful portrait of a master woodworker.

THE OX is a beautiful documentary short portrait of master woodworker Eric Hollenbeck by Ben Proudfoot. Score by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson. Cast & Crew Eric H...

17/05/2017

Oldie but Goldie...

http://www.boredpanda.com/photographer-shoots-f1-old-graflex-camera-joshua-paul/?page_numb=1

If ever there was a sport that required rapid fire photography, Formula One racing is it. Which makes what photographer Joshua Paul does even more fascinating, because instead of using top-of-the-range cameras to capture the fast-paced sport, Paul chooses to take his shots using a 104-year-old Grafl...

16/05/2017

Coffee developer...
Who wants to try? I'd love yo see your results.

12/05/2017

Wet Plate is certainly not the fastest photographic process but it has something incomon with this upcoming film: it rose from passion, dreams, hustle and not giving up. Let's support this endeavour...

Film about land speed racing pioneers in their 80ies, who are still building rocket-like vehicles in order to be The World’s Fastest.

11/05/2017

Sometimes I fall into thinking that everything has been done in photography already... and then somebody comes up with another cool project.

For her ongoing project ‘Humanæ‘, photographer Angelica Dass takes portraits of people from all around the world to match their skin tones with the PANTONE® color system. To create a photo background of the same color, a sample of 11×11 pixels of the portrait’s face is extracted digitally. The photo...

06/05/2017

Even as an orthodox analog photographer I am usually reluctant to say a bad word about digital photography. Without the aid of technology this STUNNING project would be almost impossible. Certainly not on Wet Plate. Wait till the end for the incredible final result.

22/03/2017

Antique sorcerer...

01/02/2017

Go big or go home :)
Unique work of Dieter Köhn and his 250kg camera.

Dieter Kohn shows himself at work at his portrait studio on Worth avenue in Palm Beach, Florida.

26/11/2016

People often ask me what is inside the camera... it becomes very obvious when you remove the bellow... sorry to dissapoint you but there is just nothing :)