ambrotype

• "An ambrotype was a photographic negative whose positive-negative character was reversed by placing black cloth or paper behind it to make the clear areas of the negative black, while the emulsion's opaque surface reflected light to take on the quality of a dull, positive print." —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• One-click adjustments can be made from a choice of nearly 30 preset styles from nostalgic processes like the ambrotype and tintype to classic artistic renderings, trendy high contrast, soft focus or grainy images that emulate the most popular film types and shooting styles. —  Digital Photography Now
• The process flourished less than two decades before "ambrotype," the next of many successively faster and cheaper photographic processes, began to replace it. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
• Among the papers she found her father's letter, promising to claim his wife as soon as he attained his majority; and as she noted the elegant chirography and glanced from the letter to the ambrotype which represented Cuthbert as he looked at the period of his marriage, a strangely tender new feeling welled up in her heart, dimming her eyes with unshed tears It was her father's face upon which she looked, and something in those proud high-bred features plead for him to the soul of his child. —  Infelice
• Father suggested that we put a written notice in the business office, and that very afternoon Dr. Richards knocked at our door, saying the ambrotype was his. —  Bad Hugh

Used in the Same Context