215: Shane Balkowitsch - Wet Plate Photography: No Filter Necessary

Shane Balkowitsch is a wet plate photographer from Bismarck North Dakota. Prior to getting into wet plate photography, Shane had never owned a camera outside of his cell phone. Shane is currently on a mission to capture 1000 wet plates of northern plains native Americans. 

Shanes Wet Plate Process Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86yNGXlpck 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• What is wet plate photography
• How Shane got started with wet plate photography
• How wet plate photography works
• Where Shane struggled most when learning wet plate photography
• Technical challenges of exposing wet plate photographs
• Why Shane stuck with Wet Plate Photography, knowing that digital photography is much quicker and eaiser to produce an image.

Resources:

• Wet Plate Photographer, Shane Balkowitsch’s website
• Shanes Instagram
•  Balkowitsch documentary on Amazon

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