Wet plate photography master Markus Hofstaetter--a frequent guest author on PetaPixel--recently embarked on another photography experiment. Using pebbles of sandarac resin, he made his own Renaissance-era varnish for his finished wet plates. Sandarac was used to make the original varnish. Sandarac varnish was popular in the Medieval period and especially in Renaissance-era Italy, where it […]
Wet plate photography master Markus Hofstaetter--a frequent guest author on PetaPixel--recently embarked on another photography experiment. Using pebbles of sandarac resin, he made his own Renaissance-era varnish for his finished wet plates. Sandarac was used to make the original varnish. Sandarac varnish was popular in the Medieval period and especially in Renaissance-era Italy, where it […]
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