Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tin is for Tenth

Tin is for tenth anniversary, so I gave a tintype photo session as gift to ourselves...that was back in April. The photo is done on actual tin.

Each photo was taken one at a time, like polaroid except it's not instant, so once a shot was done, the plate got processed in darkroom and then come in this box of water, then start shooting again for the next plate, imagine a lot of waiting around in between darkroom processing. That session took almost 6 hours....the light was getting darker and darker towards the evening.

Here tin plates have to be in water to cure, before they are set.





The lens is an antique but the whole camera was re-built with some new some antique parts.



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