Is anyone shooting Tintypes?

[airfrogusmc]

Really like the portrait Garrett

 

[Luddite Frank]

Love the Atwater Kent bread-board radio ! 🙂

( why is the lettering on the name-plate reversed ? )

 

[Luddite Frank]

Is the color-sensitivity of the collodion process more akin to ortho-chromatic, as opposed to pan-chromatic ?

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

Thanks, Leth.

AlternativePhotography.com is a good place to start:

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/liquid-emulsion/the-modern-tintype-process


This book is also wonderful, as it covers many different processes, but it's way too expensive on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Book-Alternative-Photographic-Processes/dp/1418073725

But yeah, using Pictorico (or the inkjet negative of your choice) it is entirely possible to produce Tintypes at home from a digital file in your (well ventilated!) darkroom. Its a great way to learn this process. If you're pouring the solution yourself, you'll need to practice a couple of times before you get an even pour. There are videos up on Youtube that will also teach you what you need to know.

 

[goamules]

Love the Atwater Kent bread-board radio ! 🙂

( why is the lettering on the name-plate reversed ? )

Thanks. Tintypes and Ambrotypes are reversed, your plate is a direct positive. Like looking in a mirror. when you look at your 35mm negatives everything is reversed. But when you print those, it gets switched to the correct way. No way to do that with tintypes.

 

[Luddite Frank]

Got it. Forgot that there is no negative involved. 😱

Thanks, Garrett !