With the release of our new workflow + vintage & antiques actions set, it only seemed appropriate to feature a photographer who uses a 150 year old photographic technique called wet collodion process.  "The collodion process is an early photographic process, which was replaced at the end of the 19th century with dry plates - glass plates with a photographic emulsion of silver halides suspended in gelatin. The gelatin had the effect of greatly increasing the speed of the plates enabling shorter exposure times.  The wet plate collodion process was still in use in the printing industry in the 1960s for line and tone work (mostly printed material involving black type against a white background) as for large work it was much cheaper than gelatin film." -Wikipedia

Jody Ake's work is truly stunning, and it reminds us of the true craftsmanship of photography.

Here are a few images from his website: