Shooting Outdoors During the Collodion Period
Taking photographs of landscapes and monuments quickly attracted photographers, even though it was not always easy to do…
Although the advent of the collodion negative brought a great improvement to the quality of the picture, a certain disadvantage persisted: the need to prepare and process the plate at the time of taking the picture. From the 1850s, as well as the cumbersome picture-taking equipment, it was necessary to take along one’s laboratory…
Many photographers continued to use it after the arrival of the dry plate, when they were working with large formats, as they could not always find mass-produced plates in these sizes, but also for reasons of economy.
