Some tin-types of my collection.

[pitfighter]

These were taken by my wife for her project -
The camera is a Japanese reproduction of an 1860's era Ambriotype.
The exposures range from 4-7 seconds and are directly onto tin.
They are reversed -
I'll keep posting, if there is interest, as we shot a lot of my collection.

[RH1941]

Very nice I like the look of them. Gary

[SteveR]

Is your wife a photography student ?
Nice work.

[pitfighter]

Is your wife a photography student ?
Nice work.

She is a student of the tin-type process - but makes her living with portrait photography.

[pitfighter]

Some more for those interested

MP34 Steyr Solothurn S100






2REP FFL - "Legio patria Nostra."

[Chopperman]

Great pictures. If a person didn't know, you would
think they were decades old photos.

She did a fantastic job.

[Ian Hayes]

Nice pictures very tastefully done. Quite a group of guns also.

[pitfighter]

A couple of new ones - the process takes a while with drying and varnishing - not German this time.

[Slade]

Excellent Ambriotypes! Do you guys attend any Civil War reenactments? I and fellow reenactors would pay big $$$ to have well executed Ambriotype taken with period equipment!

[pitfighter]

Thank you, Slade,

This is the first time she's photographed this sort of subject matter - all her idea, not mine.

Ref. re-enactments: It's not a very mobile system - You have three minutes to take the photo after preparing it in the darkroom - then you rush back to the darkroom to finish the process, which requires running water - Presently, everything is photographed at our studio.
(Although a friend of hers has converted a small school bus into a mobile dark-room.)

The studio is in So-Cal, feel free to PM me for more info. - it's her bread and butter, so I would simply pass along her details


*These two were less effective:
1. I loaned her a 1940's Soviet propaganda poster for the background - but, the focus is so shallow it didn't really work, and then there was a chemical problem, too.


Then, on this one, I am missing the fore grip on this MP (if anyone has one, please Pm me ) - and it just looks wrong, I suggested she frame within the grip - she didn't like my suggestion.