A sensitized collodion plate exposed in the camera while the collodion is moist.
〔摄〕湿板
as modifierwet-plate process
Example sentencesExamples
John Coffer, one of the new pioneers of the old art of wet plate collodion, lives in a 19 th-century-style, two-room cabin he built himself on an upstate New York farm.
In the 1850s the Victorian photographer Roger Fenton took the new technology of wet-plate photography to high levels of artistic achievement and public visibility.
In the 19th century, most wet-plate negatives were used to make prints on albumen paper, but the whites of the image generally lack the yellowish cast of albumen prints.
In the 1850s the daguerreotype gave way to a cheap hybrid, the tintype, and to a new form of negative-to-positive photography known as wet-plate or wet-collodion.
Sally Mann said the wet plate collodion process allows her to be totally involved in the act of making an image.
Definition of wet plate in US English:
wet plate
nounˈwet ˌplāt
Photography
A sensitized collodion plate exposed in the camera while the collodion is moist.
〔摄〕湿板
as modifierwet-plate process
Example sentencesExamples
In the 19th century, most wet-plate negatives were used to make prints on albumen paper, but the whites of the image generally lack the yellowish cast of albumen prints.
In the 1850s the daguerreotype gave way to a cheap hybrid, the tintype, and to a new form of negative-to-positive photography known as wet-plate or wet-collodion.
In the 1850s the Victorian photographer Roger Fenton took the new technology of wet-plate photography to high levels of artistic achievement and public visibility.
John Coffer, one of the new pioneers of the old art of wet plate collodion, lives in a 19 th-century-style, two-room cabin he built himself on an upstate New York farm.
Sally Mann said the wet plate collodion process allows her to be totally involved in the act of making an image.