Ancient Light

Greg Anderson

Ancient Light transforms your iPhone into a camera of the nineteenth century. Eleven authentic historic photographic processes - each faithfully simulated through the physics of tone, silver chemistry, grain, and light. Not filters. Processes. THE ELEVEN PROCESSES -- Daguerreotype (1839) - The first successful photograph. A mirror-like silver surface with luminous shadow detail and a quality that painters of the era envied. Tintype (1853) - The photograph of the working class. Robust, immediate, metallic, now with regular or square format options and optional worn plate borders. Sepia - The warm brown tone of silver sulphide that preserved Victorian portraits through a century and a half. Cyanotype (1842) - Sir John Herschel's iron-based process. Deep Prussian blue. The print that gave photography the word "blueprint." Anthotype (1839) - Made from crushed plant pigments. Delicate, fugitive, botanical. The most poetic photographic process ever devised. Platinum (1873) - The process of fine art portraiture. Cool, shadow-rich, with a tonal range silver could never match. Autochrome (1907) - The Lumiere brothers' starch-grain colour process. Dreamy, pointillist, the first practical colour photography. Wet Plate (1851) - The dominant process of the mid-19th century. Cracked emulsion, silver bubbles, edge melt, amber-olive toning. Bromoil (1907) - Oil-based ink on bleached gelatin. Painterly and stippled, with inky shadows and pale milky highlights. Lippmann (1891) - Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning interferential process. Warm amber ageing, long-exposure softness, and glass plate scratches from a century of handling. Infrared (1930s) - Light beyond the visible spectrum. Luminous white foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones. The spectral world captured on heat-sensitive emulsion. WHAT ANCIENT LIGHT CAN DO -- All four optical lenses - ultrawide (0.5x), wide (1x), 2x, and telephoto (5x) - selectable from the viewfinder Shoot once, save many - save multiple historic versions from a single capture On iPhone Pro: saves both a filtered JPEG and the original 48MP ProRAW DNG as a paired asset Full adjustment suite - exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, black point, saturation, vibrance, warmth, sharpness, and vignette Tintype options - choose regular or square format, with period borders or no borders Seven Daguerreotype frame styles plus No Frame, selectable directly from the viewfinder Higher-resolution Daguerreotype frame output, scaled to the photo instead of the source frame artwork Adjustments apply to the photograph while preserving Daguerreotype frame artwork Auto enhancement with one tap Precision crop tool with inset handles and rule-of-thirds grid Landscape side-panel layout keeps the image large while all controls stay accessible Photographer credit field - your name travels with every saved file in the IPTC metadata Process, frame, and Tintype options stored between sessions iPhone and iPad, all orientations No subscription. No ads. No account required. Ancient Light is a single purchase. Everything in it is yours.