we should. Yeah, I think once people see
what a real tintype looks like as opposed to,
you know, a filter on a camera phone,
they don't realize that there's just no comparison. Mm
. My name is Patrick Demons, and I'm a
portrait photographer. I specialize in using a process from
the 18 sixties called Wet Plate Palladian or Tintype.
I shoot large format, and I use a camera
that's very durable was made in the 19 fifties by
a company called Kalamata Lot of People called the Big
Green Monster because it's very heavy from beginning to end
. The tintype process involves taking a piece of aluminum
and black aluminum, and you pour a Kel Odeon
suspension over that plate and you don't get into a
bath of silver nitrate. Silver nitrate is going to
create a reaction with Nickelodeon and assaults suspended in that
Klodian to make the silver light sensitive. And then
you load that film into the back of the camera
, pull up the dark slide and shoot 12 Let's
go develop it. Once it's exposed, you'll have
this latent image on the back of that metal.
The silver has been exposed to light. There's an
image there. It just needs to be revealed by
the development process. And then you have an image
you can take out into the light and fix.
As the fixer washes away all of the unexposed silver
, their positive image emerges out of that cloud.
And, uh, when they see it for the
first time, it's just magical. It's amazing.
Yeah, from your eyes only see the visible spectrum
of light of, uh, Roy G biv.
But wet plate is shifted, is shifted towards ultraviolet
. So it sees some details in our faces and
in landscapes that we can't even see ourselves, you
know, That's why sometimes people, uh, notice
freckles in their faces or little scars that they forgot
they had. You know, you're taking molecular silver
and creating an image with it. It really is
a dance of silver and light That makes just an
unbelievable image on that piece of metal. Okay, 00:02:17.340 --> Yeah,