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In recent years, there's been something a resurgence in tintype photography, resurrecting one of the oldest methods of taking a photo. But if you want to get really authentic, why stop at using just the old methods? Why not use the old gear too? Rob Gibson is a studio photographer in Gettysburg, PA who does exactly that: he takes tintype photographs using Civil War era cameras and lenses.

There was a brief period, starting around 1918, where the military decided that a good way to use its trained soldiers was to create enormous, perspective corrected images out of them. Dubbed "living photographs", the technique was pioneered by Arthur Mole, and sometimes involved tens of thousands of people to craft these massive compositions.

According to reports, Facebook is trialing presenting images on the social network through a different format, moving away from the widely supported JPEG into a more obscure format called WebP.

After Beyoncé's half-time show at this year's Super Bowl, the singer's PR team tried to quash some professionally taken photographs that were deemed "unflattering" — which worked about as well as you'd imagine. The fallout of this has meant that on the singer's new 'Mrs. Carter Show' world tour, professional photographers have been completely banned from the premises.