Gallery
Tintype photographs are unique.
When you look for them on the web, you can Google and see hundreds of wonderful portraits - they will give you an idea of the type of image we can create together. You as subject, me as photographer. By all means bring a print along and we will recreate that look, that lighting.
But what you see on the web is a carefully scanned and adjusted image. What you will have in your hand is something else, a metal plate, something so different to what you are used to in photography. Most people have never seen and handled a genuine tintype photograph. When I hand people a tintype image, the usual reaction is quite simple..
"Oh Wow!"
The image is so... It's hard to put in words, So..."ancient looking" -maybe, "timeless"- maybe, "beautiful"-maybe, "magical" -sure.
And yet, to put a gallery of tintypes on a website presents such a problem. This magic cannot be captured in digital form. I can scan them, manipulate them, change the contrast. But that will make them less what they are. I'd prefer to show them as photographic objects rather than photographs.
So I've decided to show you a few mixed subjects - just handheld in front of the iPad, reflections, hand shake and all. Hopefully these will give you the feeling of the experience of a tintype photograph. Digital photography is another medium, and that is not what this website or our photography is about.
And lastly, the saddest part of a wet-plate photographer's life. His best photographs leave, they go with the customer. All he has left is a hasty snapshot of the plate or a scan. These few are just a tiny sample of the hundreds taken. By no means the best, just a taste.
When you look for them on the web, you can Google and see hundreds of wonderful portraits - they will give you an idea of the type of image we can create together. You as subject, me as photographer. By all means bring a print along and we will recreate that look, that lighting.
But what you see on the web is a carefully scanned and adjusted image. What you will have in your hand is something else, a metal plate, something so different to what you are used to in photography. Most people have never seen and handled a genuine tintype photograph. When I hand people a tintype image, the usual reaction is quite simple..
"Oh Wow!"
The image is so... It's hard to put in words, So..."ancient looking" -maybe, "timeless"- maybe, "beautiful"-maybe, "magical" -sure.
And yet, to put a gallery of tintypes on a website presents such a problem. This magic cannot be captured in digital form. I can scan them, manipulate them, change the contrast. But that will make them less what they are. I'd prefer to show them as photographic objects rather than photographs.
So I've decided to show you a few mixed subjects - just handheld in front of the iPad, reflections, hand shake and all. Hopefully these will give you the feeling of the experience of a tintype photograph. Digital photography is another medium, and that is not what this website or our photography is about.
And lastly, the saddest part of a wet-plate photographer's life. His best photographs leave, they go with the customer. All he has left is a hasty snapshot of the plate or a scan. These few are just a tiny sample of the hundreds taken. By no means the best, just a taste.
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