Tintypes and Ambrotypes
The wet plate collodion process was published in the Chemist magazine in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer. This process allowed the reproductions of images from glass negatives with shorter exposure times and lower costs. Scott Archer realised that when these negative plates were placed on a black surface, they read as positives, these were known as ambrotypes. The wet plate collodion process can also be applied to tin, known as tintypes. Wet plate collodion images look typically aged, really dramatic and often imperfect at the edges. These images were created during a one day course I attended on the Wet Plate Collodion process. For more information on how the day went, please download the PDF below.