Image courtesy of Rashod Taylor

This amazing weekend workshop gets you hands-on with the beautiful, historical photographic processes tintypes (positives on metal) and ambrotypes (positives on glass). Workshop leader Rashod Taylor, who has been working with these wet plate processes for over 13 years, will show you how to create tintypes and ambrotypes from start to finish — no prior photography experience required — all are welcome, beginners to advanced!  

During the weekend, we will make images with the wet plate processes, both indoors and outdoors, weather permitting, allowing you to experiment with landscape, still life, and portraiture. Along the way, Taylor will share fundamentals about working with 4 x 5 cameras as well as coating the plates, making correct exposures with wet plate, processing the plates, and finally, finishing, varnishing, and storage for archival preservation of your images. We will process plates in Aurora’s renovated darkroom as well as outdoors in a mobile darkroom tent, offering a wide variety of wet plate experiences and plenty of room for experimentation.

All materials and cameras will be provided, but if you would like to bring your own 4 x 5 camera or any other materials to work with, you are welcome to do so.  

For more information about the workshop and to register, please click here.