Video: Building a DIY wet plate camera and photographing 'ghosts'

Photographer Markus Hofstaetter specializes in large format photography, including the wet plate photographic process. Hofstaetter also offers workshops, including ones where fellow photographers can try their hand at wet plate photography. Just before the pandemic started, Corrine West booked a workshop with Hofstaetter, and two years later, it happened. West wanted to learn how the wet collodion process worked and eventually be able to shoot double exposure portraits, much like those captured ...