I have always been attracted to the beauty of tintype photography. If you don't know what that is, think American Civil War era photos.
Watch this very well-done video, then I'll be back for more talk.
There is something magical tintype, as maybe you can see in that video. If I could afford to get into it, and if my kids weren't young enough that having hazardous chemicals here would be too dangerous, I would love to get into shooting real tintype.
Here's another video:
As things stand, I can only fake it, but there are many good actions for Photoshop and filters for Lightroom that will emulate Tintype, and several good apps too. For iOS I like "TinType" and the "TinType" filter package for Hipstamatic.
Back when I had my own website, I used to post a few random links everyday or every few days, in the style of http://kottke.org or http://daringfireball.net. Readers seemed to enjoy seeing them.
I'm still thinking about the formatting, but for now I will put an arrow (→) at the beginning of the title to show you guys it is a link post and that you can skip it if such things don't interest you.
| David LaSpina is an American photographer lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time. |
