Wet collodion portraits
Portraits made with the wet collodion process. The images are made directly in the camera on glass (ambrotypes) or blackened metal plates (tintypes). I use a variety of cameras, ranging from a relatively modern 5″x4″ MPP technical camera to an 1880’s wooden whole plate camera. The lenses also vary; often a 180mm Zeiss Jena lens on the MPP, and a brass Petzval lens on the larger camera.