History of Photography Video

The photographic process that interested me the most was the tintype. It is very similar to the ambrotype but instead of glass, a photographer used tin. A blackened piece of tin would be covered in collodion and put into the camera to take a picture. Although the process seems long to me, I still find it fascinating. I believe most of my fascination comes from the fact that photographers had to go through the long and tedious process of coating the tin, taking the picture, and having to develop the plate all in one sitting every single time they wanted to take a photo. This is a bummer because a traveling photographer could have been developing a plate and then see something interesting pass by them, but they could not take the picture because they were busy. But I did find it interesting how the photo appeared on the plate during development–that was cool. It is really funny how the images turned out inverted and confused people, especially when it came to Billy the Kid’s dominant hand. Lastly, I admire how it opened up the world of photography so that people could get photos of themselves or family members without having to pay a large sum.