My first attempt of a Tintype treatment.

[DEAN01]

David, very interesting treatment for digital work. Hope to see more.

Have you seen the Butterflies and Buffalo page (butterfliesandbuffalo.com)? Not what it sounds like, kind of a modern tintype on a grand scale.

[Mike Buckley]

That's a major improvement and quite nice, David.

You might want to consider deciding whether you want to make tintypes to replicate the tintypes of the 1860s, tintypes in the style of a modern photo or both. As an example, I don't remember seeing 19th century tintypes of such close-ups. Part of the reason for that I think is that people were so knew to being photographed that they wanted to show off their clothing and/or their environment. The other part might be that the common subject may not have liked such a shallow depth of field when larger depths of field weren't possible using the equipment at the time.

Considering that this is a close-up, anyone familiar with tintypes would know that it would have had to have been made recently due to the style. So, that would beg the question as to how it has so quickly become so badly damaged; you might want to make tintypes in this style but displaying metal that looks as new as the style of the photo.

[Texas Dave]

Dean, I've never seen the Butterflies and Buffalo page. I just spent a few minutes somewhat mesmerized by the site as the photos transitioned by. AWESOME! Thanks! I have some exploring to do this evening.

Mike, you have a knack of keeping me in check. lol. (I appreciate it too!) Up to this point I have very little knowledge of tin types and was impressed with Victoria Will's Sundance Film Festival's tintype shoot. Interestingly enough, I just read one of the reviews on Fstoppers of a fan asking why all the distortion, Anne Hathaway would look better without the streak running through her head. lol. ....I get it! Just now, that is.

The image above was my attempt to mimic the tintype that Victoria did of Robert Redford. I actual reviewed the photo as I directed my subject above to try and get the same look. This strategy gave me an idea of how and the distortion was from the first tintype blank I was able to google. Google Tintype texture and you'll find one of the images I used as my overlay texture.

I'm actually not sure where I'm going with this but I'm having fun. I appreciate you guys!

[Mike Buckley]

I'm actually not sure where I'm going with this but I'm having fun.

We're having fun watching you along the way.

[IzzieK]

I am glad you did not give up, Dave...this last one is really good than your doggie one...it shows the character in your model, the treatment really work for a people shot and I love the texture...

I'm not giving up yet. After looking at the Robert Redford Tintype that the photographer did at the Sundance thing, I tried another approach.

It really seems to me that the old cameras had a very, very shallow depth of field. I shot a coworker with my 50mm at 1.8. I had a hard time keeping the light from blowing him out but I think I got allot better understanding of the "tintype feel". Anyway, here's another attempt. I did use a new filter I never used before, the iris blur.

Iris Blur


After the iris blur I placed the original sharp image over it and filled the layer mask to knock it all out, then slowly and gently brushed the sharp image back in, only around the eye and what I perceived to be an old Graflex or Sinar's focal plane. That got me to here.

By the way, this is the friend that let me shoot the sword. Heck of a sport!

[bnnrcn]

I like what yıu did very much It was clever of me to subscribe to this thread, I knew something good was going to come out

[Texas Dave]

Binnur, I don't know how often I would need a faked tintype photo but I like the feel of it.

I hope that at some point in my life, I would have the ability to acquire an old tintype camera, maybe a Sinar 4x5, a good lens along with the skills and ambition to do tintype portraits.

I'm also starting to realize that I really enjoy doing portrait photography.