About Wet Collodion: Wet plate collodion tintypes and ambrotypes have a unique aesthetic, being moody, dark, dreamlike, rough around the edges, perfectly imperfect, a physical thing made by hand to be held and exhibited. Artifacts form on the plate due to improper technique and sometimes unpredictably at random. Each individual tintype or ambrotype plate is unrepeatable having it’s own unique character. Seeing the plate come up in the fixer and appear to reverse from a negative to a positive image is often described as magic. It’s actually a chemical reaction… but it looks and feels like magic!
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