Discussion Topic 3: Civil War-era Processes, New Advertising

According to the film clips wet-plate photography it goes through an exclusive process to go make the pictures look authentic. It has it’s own quality which is hard to find in photography anymore. Wet-plate photography is worth doing, but it takes all day to get only two pictures done since it is more natural. We also have to be really patient to get the pictures and the process is extremely slow.

According to news article wet-plate photography can be difficult to make, but it cannot be compare as iPhone pictures since they use the old-fashioned film pictures. It has its exclusive qualities. Wet-plate photography returns to nineteenth-century photography since it contains the attributes that it contained; brown image, blurred edges and still photo. This type of photography illustrates personalities of the model and often times a digital camera doesn’t capture such descriptive details.

Nowadays it is really easy to get things such as capturing pictures and get the picture right away, but wet-plate photography process is difficult, which takes time and lots of effort that makes the pic looks more antique-like even more and quality of the pictures makes it more natural.

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