Time Slippage

[ennuipoet]

Richard Barnes photographs Civil War reenactors on a wet plate camera. Which is cool. He likes to keep the elements of contemporary life in his shots, which is awesome.

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13992104-photographer-brings-civil-war-to-life-with-centuries-old-technology

When I first saw this shot

(C) Richard Barnes
I kept staring at without reading the headline trying to figure why I couldn’t figure out what was wrong in this photo.

This takes Instagram out in to a field and runs down with a troop of cavalry!

[nobigdeal]

HA! That’s pretty awesome!

[chupathingie]

This is, indeed, Neat Stuff.

/don’t google “wet plate iso” and fall into the well…

[bender16v]

That is pretty good stuff that he does. My friend does wet plate photography and the process scares me, it is so sensitive to every little detail. Here’s a condensed video he made of making one plate.

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