Tintype Portraits
APRIL COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
By Lucas Buick
First introduced in 2012 for iPhone 5, the TinType SnapPak opened up the world of 19th century style photography to iOS– no need for wetplates. Since its debut TinType went on to get its own specialized app a few years later in the fall of 2014, allowing for more control over depth of field and other filter adjustments.
With each new iPhone the core depth technology has improved and when we rebuilt the Hipstamatic camera in December we added a special shooting mode dedicated to TinType.
This month as a community challenge we are going to explore how far we can push portrait photography using the TinType shooting mode.
In 2015, Hipstamatic got to work with celebrity photographer, Victoria Will just after she had completed an incredible series of Tintypes at Sundance.
“What I love about the process is how raw it is,” says Victoria. “We live in an age of glossy magazines and overly retouched skin. But there is no lying with tintypes. You can’t get rid of a few wrinkles in Photoshop.”
