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Comment by Wendy Rosier on November 9, 2010 at 4:34pm

Wonderful adaptation of digital to a "tintype" feel - Kudos for expanding your horisons. I love how you cropped it and everyone else is right about the smudge '-)
Tintypes (photos onto thin Iron sheet not tin) were actually almost as fast as a "Polaroid" see below

The tintype was a minor improvement to the ambrotype, replacing the glass plate of the original process with a thin piece of black-enameled, or japanned, iron (hence ferro). The new materials reduced costs considerably; and the image, in gelatin-silver emulsion on the varnished surface, has proven to be very durable. Like that of the ambrotype, the tintype's image is technically negative; but, because of the black background, it appears as a positive. Since the tintype 'film' was the same as the final print, most tintype images appear reversed (left to right) from reality. Some cameras were fitted with mirrors or a 45-degree prism to reverse (and thus correct) the image, while some photographers would photograph the reversed tintype to produce a properly oriented image.

Tintypes are simple and fast to prepare, compared to other early photographic techniques. A photographer could prepare, expose, develop, and varnish a tintype plate in a few minutes, quickly having it ready for a customer. Earlier tintypes were often cased, as were daguerreotypes and ambrotypes; but uncased images in paper black sleeves and for albums were popular from the beginning.

Comment by anna mccolm on November 9, 2010 at 4:04pm

This is great,Trudy.

Comment by Elehna de Sousa on November 9, 2010 at 11:58am

I like it in Sepia.

Comment by Avril Kirby on November 9, 2010 at 10:46am

We've walked Buddy along here many a time but I've never thought to take a photo from this viewpoint--clever you! It's lovely in sepia.

Comment by Trudy Sloan on November 8, 2010 at 7:56pm

I just noticed the smudge that must have been on my lens in the top left. Darn!

Comment by Trudy Sloan on November 8, 2010 at 7:55pm