Tag Archives: wet-plate

Wet Plate Social to be held here December 20th

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. You may recall our previous program co-ordinator, Yvette Bessels did wet plate photography. One of her contacts here in Toronto, Horst Herget, is holding a WET PLATE SOCIAL  this month in the east end of the city (Leaside). Horst … Continue reading →

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through the wet-plate camera

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Being a photographer – and a good one – in the mid 1800s took exceptional skill and a fine, artistic eye. Author Lewis Carroll (A.K.A. the reverend Chas. Dodgson) was one such person. In Bruce Downes’s column (Let’s Talk … Continue reading →

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thanks, Helen

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. The CDV is roughly a large size business card with a photo mounted on thick card stock. Studios produced them in the 1850s/1860s by the dozens. People sent them to friend and relatives but few identified the person and … Continue reading →

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nearly as scarce as hens’ teeth

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Have you ever seen an authentic wet-plate camera in fine condition? No? Brass lenses from the wet-plate period abound at fairs like ours, but few cameras exist and even fewer unrestored ones in top condition. And there is good … Continue reading →

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PHSC News for March 2021 (Vol 20-09)

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. At right top of page 1 in this issue is the FLIR Scout TK camera – digital technology with a twist! This tiny digital device records the thermal image of the viewed scene! As the third month of 2021 … Continue reading →

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by the light of the silvery moon

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. From the very beginning of photography, the moon and photography have worked closely together. John William Draper made his daguerreotype of the moon in 1840. It is the earliest existing photographic image of the moon. A cleaned up version … Continue reading →

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stick a cabinet in your pocket

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. With the advent of wet plate technology, the number of photographers increased once again. Albumen paper for positive prints became very popular in spite of the need to glue down the curl-prone medium to stiff cardboard. The so called … Continue reading →

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re-creating the war that started Canada

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Canada was formed in 1867 in a well known conference held on spud island (PEI). The founding of the Dominion was Britain’s reaction to the US Civil War and its means to protect the British colonies in North America … Continue reading →

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double feature – September 18, 2019 – 7:45pm

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Robert

Toronto.  Our fall meeting program begins with this double feature: Ottawa photographer and author John McQuarrie on his favourite computer imaging tools for book publishing (he will have books here to sell). And Horst Herget on portraiture and wet-plate photography. … Continue reading →

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Horst Herget – wet plate collodion photographer

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. Horst will be speaking at our Toronto meeting this coming September. Meantime drop in and see his work at an exhibition May 14 – June 9. The  reception is May 15th. Details of the IN/CAMERA exibition are on this … Continue reading →

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