PORTFOLIO
WET PLATE
Wet Plate/ambrotype is a unique photographic technique from the 1850s, that only few photographers
can manage. Henrik Brahe has his own studio in Portugal where he uses his old cameras to
produce among others stunning portraits and landscape photos.
WET PLATE
The collodion process is an early photographic technique. The technique, mostly synonymous with the "
collodion wet plate process", requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom if used in the field.
Collodion is normally used in its wet form, but can also be used in dry form, at the cost of greatly increased exposure time. The latter made the dry form unsuitable for the usual portraiture work of most professional photographers of the 19th century. The use of the dry form was therefore mostly confined to landscape photography and other special applications where minutes-long exposure times were tolerable.
"I think wet plate technology provide the photography univers with a fantastic uniqueness. The 19th-century technique of wet-plate collodion photography, and the tintype process in particular, is undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment as digital photography prompts people to explore older analogue methods"
Henrik Brahe