The Incredible Process Of Tintype Photography - With Guy Bellingham FRPS

In this video I visit Guy Bellingham’s studio to check out the amazing process of traditional 1850s style tintype photography. Guy shows me how he primes the wet plate, composes portraits and then develops the photos. It's longer video so make yourself comfortable and enjoy :)

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Meet Guy
2:06 Lenses and other gear
11:33 Into the dark room
13:19 Taking the photo
13:42 Exposing the wet plate
14:41 Developing the negative
16:01 Second portrait
17:11 Explaining edge defects
18:22 Resolution?
19:49 Digitising tintypes
21:21 The reveal

[bobuk]

Hi. I have an ancestor who I know was involved with early photography. He was, I think, a bit of a con artist. I believe he met Louis Daguerre in Paris in the very early 1840s and learnt some, but not all of the Daguerreotype process. Subsequently travelled around England making images of the aristocracy but had to move on after a few weeks as the images faded my understanding is that this was happening before tintypes were available but any of these early techniques are fascinating and I so pleased to have found this video.

[StupidRaisins]

Fascinating! I love hearing about how traditional photography worked. Thank you for sharing your experience!

[SinaFarhat]

Tintype and it's intense process is a special type of photography!
Very creative and special end results! :)
Have a good week!

[streetlegends]

This episode belongs on the history channel. Great stuff Harv.

[tsehgal]

Great video Harv. I shoot video and wet plate myself and find both immensely creative processes.

[Solsticeson]

Wow that was awesome! I'm hoping to get into wet plate sometime soon.

[Josh.Vanjani]

This was a thoroughly interesting video, Harv 🧐! I haven't sat straight through a 20 minute video in quite some time, but this one was deserving of it. It's great to know about the beginnings of photography. We've indeed come quite far, but there is still a certain soul to these tintypes which is absent in our modern equipment. 👏

[frankhdh]

Please wear safety glasses to protect your eyes when handeling with acid or silver nitrate.... ...but wonderful lenses you are using and beautiful pictures!

[emanuelefazio]

Thanks for this amazing video! One day I will visit Guy, I would like to have a portrait like that. The only problem is that I need to organise a trip from Italy to England ahah

[JimHarrisonFilm]

This is a great video! Would love to see you attmempt to recreate it with a modern camera! Even if it's not 100% possible, I 'd love to see how close you can get.

[Jacob_._Roberts]

Why do you want to go back in the history of photography? Isn't it a little like using a horse and wagon instead of a car?