melitte01, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!!!! I am a photographic chemical engineer (ret) and started my life with the basics. My user name on everything has been ferrotype since 1997! Your video is BY FAR one of the best around for someone who has photo-chem knowledge. I look forward to watching the rest of your videos and hopefully chit-chatting back and forth!
beautiful images at the end. Thanks so much! I'm taking Intermediate Darkroom in school right now and always wondered how this process was done. Going to ask in class tomorrow if we could do some experimental stuff like this!
Very interesting. I'd love to see 3 shots of the same subject respectively filtered R, G and B at shoot time, and then combined digitally to make a 'full color' tintype.
LOL, I think appreciation of the skill, patience and art of wet plate are beyond what most people can recoignize. There are few people around who have mastered this process (Sally Mann is a favourite) and even less who build wetplate cameras (save those who modify film holders). If you want to even begin to appreciate what wet plate is, try large format - you'll think long and hard about every composition and exposure when at $1-$2 and 10-15 minutes developing time per photograph.
@whoaitslu I photograph on glass plate (similar process, different substrate) and spent around $200 on chemicals for around 15 plates (silver nitrate is expensive, hydrogen cyanide is poisonous), I use a 4x5 Busch Pressman which was $400 and a DIY modified 4x5 film holder.
@Flubb0r Take a digital photo of a subject. Separate the photo into R, G and B channels. Roll the hue of the G and B channel until it is red. Photograph all three different but now red channels as separate tintypes. Scan the tintypes. Roll the hues of two of them back to green and blue. Combine them digitally. Color tintype.
So when you are ready to make an exposure you put the plate holder in the camera close the back and then pull out a pice so that when the lens cap is removed the light will hit the tintype? Very interresting video! Thanks
boo, the metal to make tintypes (blackened aluminum) is cheaper if you order alot. Glass can be had from any hardware store or frame store if you are just starting. Ambros are a little harder to clean but the technology / exposure / chemistry is exactly the same for both.
@343GuiltysparkHALO I think what I meant was that you should NOT do this with a digital camera. Thats the problem with today. Everyone wants a quick and easy solution to fast production. My husband shoots tintype and every way that he shoots from lighting to developing to the actual camera are all of the time period. The reuslt is a beautiful photograph that digital can absolutely not touch. Its gorgeous! I love tintype! Wish I were alive in that era.
Does anybody know how long the process takes from start to finish, assuming the camera is already focused? Also how long do the plates stay sensitized for? Or do you have to expose right away?
What size flask are you using for your collodion? Is that your main flask you use to hold your collodion or do you transfer the collodion to the small flask when taking pictures?
Actually, tintypes were hardly ever printed on tin...they were typically made on sheets of iron. The name "tintype" probably came from the tin snips used to cut the iron plates.
Hello. Thank you very much for video. I'm planning to be wet plate photographer. I need some help. If you see this comment please answer with contact information. Thank you 😊
Ivvovich, not sure where you are based but here in NYC they have great weekend classes at Penumbra Foundation where they teach fundaments of tintype. M
That is so cool. It really is like you are an alchemist. I love historical photography and think it so cool that people are still doing it today.
melitte01, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!
I am a photographic chemical engineer (ret) and started my life with the basics.
My user name on everything has been ferrotype since 1997!
Your video is BY FAR one of the best around for someone who has photo-chem knowledge.
I look forward to watching the rest of your videos and hopefully chit-chatting back and forth!
thank you so much, this is so wonderful and reminds me why i got into photography in the first place, before megapixels and all that.
beautiful images at the end. Thanks so much! I'm taking Intermediate Darkroom in school right now and always wondered how this process was done. Going to ask in class tomorrow if we could do some experimental stuff like this!
Very interesting. I'd love to see 3 shots of the same subject respectively filtered R, G and B at shoot time, and then combined digitally to make a 'full color' tintype.
Great video. I been wanting to do that for years and have never seen the process. Thank you.
LOL, I think appreciation of the skill, patience and art of wet plate are beyond what most people can recoignize. There are few people around who have mastered this process (Sally Mann is a favourite) and even less who build wetplate cameras (save those who modify film holders). If you want to even begin to appreciate what wet plate is, try large format - you'll think long and hard about every composition and exposure when at $1-$2 and 10-15 minutes developing time per photograph.
@whoaitslu I photograph on glass plate (similar process, different substrate) and spent around $200 on chemicals for around 15 plates (silver nitrate is expensive, hydrogen cyanide is poisonous), I use a 4x5 Busch Pressman which was $400 and a DIY modified 4x5 film holder.
easy to process. look great, thank for video.
Thank you so much for putting this up! So helpful, would love to try this myself some time soon!
Volume is fine to me. Thank you for the video as I'm interested in taking this up.
@Flubb0r Take a digital photo of a subject. Separate the photo into R, G and B channels. Roll the hue of the G and B channel until it is red. Photograph all three different but now red channels as separate tintypes. Scan the tintypes. Roll the hues of two of them back to green and blue. Combine them digitally. Color tintype.
Thank you, I like photography and I found this video very interesting. The introduction is great.
@AAnneC actually you can with a devere digital enlarging system
only problem is it costs like 20,000 dollars
So when you are ready to make an exposure you put the plate holder in the camera close the back and then pull out a pice so that when the lens cap is removed the light will hit the tintype? Very interresting video!
Thanks
she looks ready to pounce -- right on the edge of the woods.
Yeah, that's where "Ferro" in "Ferrotypes" comes from.
I've heard the reason they were called tintypes was because the plates were so inexpensive.
boo, the metal to make tintypes (blackened aluminum) is cheaper if you order alot. Glass can be had from any hardware store or frame store if you are just starting. Ambros are a little harder to clean but the technology / exposure / chemistry is exactly the same for both.
you make it look easy
i've ALWAYS wanted a tintype of myself. not those sepia dress-up photos you see at fairs. sigh. i guess this is one dream that can never come true :'(
@343GuiltysparkHALO I think what I meant was that you should NOT do this with a digital camera. Thats the problem with today. Everyone wants a quick and easy solution to fast production. My husband shoots tintype and every way that he shoots from lighting to developing to the actual camera are all of the time period. The reuslt is a beautiful photograph that digital can absolutely not touch. Its gorgeous! I love tintype! Wish I were alive in that era.
if you mention collodion an digital in the same sentence, fox talbot will haunt your dreams
thank yo so much! I'm reviewing for my photography test on old methods.
Just got my tin type done at PHOTOBOOTH in San Francisco.
@digitalArtform I'ts prety much red blind and very little sensitive to green , so that would be pointless, as you would get a blue photograph
@4Firearms dude, I do that for a living. Believe me I know. But imagine, instead of being a digital photographer you get to be an alchemist.
Does anybody know how long the process takes from start to finish, assuming the camera is already focused? Also how long do the plates stay sensitized for? Or do you have to expose right away?
ambrotype, tintype, which one is more expensive to operate? Like around???
Thank you,
great video - just with the volume were better-
What size flask are you using for your collodion? Is that your main flask you use to hold your collodion or do you transfer the collodion to the small flask when taking pictures?
Thanks!
Actually, tintypes were hardly ever printed on tin...they were typically made on sheets of iron. The name "tintype" probably came from the tin snips used to cut the iron plates.
Does anyone else see the happy 4 eyed alien standing behind her?
where did you get the metal?
@welder6g you don't.
This is a very nice video, but the soud is very weak. I wish I could hear what she was saying.
Hello. Thank you very much for video. I'm planning to be wet plate photographer. I need some help. If you see this comment please answer with contact information. Thank you 😊
Ivvovich, not sure where you are based but here in NYC they have great weekend classes at Penumbra Foundation where they teach fundaments of tintype. M
haha, yeah i can:)
very poor volume
Sound is too weak to hear.
I can't hear what she is saying. please redo using a mic on your blouse or something. i'm very interested hearing what you have to say about Tintypes