Until today you had only a few choices if you wanted to recreate some of the old-style photo art. Some of the processing techniques even required the processing of the glass plate within minutes of taking the photograph. These processes took tremendous skill and passion to produce the final product. The silky smooth images and fabulously artistic edges are just amazing to look at.īefore the days of digital or film photography, photographers had to process their images using glass plates, metal plates, and paper to get their final image. It's all about the edge! There is something artistic about the old days of plate photography.
