Wet plate photography master Markus Hofstaetter—a frequent guest author on PetaPixel—recently embarked on another photography experiment. Using pebbles of sandarac resin, he made his own Renaissance-era varnish for his finished wet plates.
Sandarac was used to make the original varnish. Sandarac varnish was popular in the Medieval period and especially in Renaissance-era Italy, where it […]. petapixel.com
Photographer Markus Hofstaetter's wet-plate work often features big, ultra-fast lenses. However, Hofstaetter recently acquired a very tiny lens that has caused him some massive problems. [Read More]
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