Wet Plate Photography: No Filter Necessary with Shane Balkowitsch

The Beginner Photography Podcast

The Beginner Photography Podcast
Wet Plate Photography: No Filter Necessary with Shane Balkowitsch
Sep 08, 2020
Raymond Hatfield

#215 Shane Balkowitsch is a wet plate photographer from Bismarck North Dakota. Prior to getting into wet plate photography, Shane had never owned a camera outside of his cell phone. Shane is currently on a mission to capture 1000 wet plates of northern plains native Americans. 

Shanes Wet Plate Process Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86yNGXlpck 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

  • What is wet plate photography
  • How Shane got started with wet plate photography
  • How wet plate photography works
  • Where Shane struggled most when learning wet plate photography
  • Technical challenges of exposing wet plate photographs
  • Why Shane stuck with Wet Plate Photography, knowing that digital photography is much quicker and eaiser to produce an image.

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