Dave Norbut

“Whether I was looking through old shoe boxes of family photos or staring at the images in my history books as a kid, I’ve always been fascinated with photography.”

Hipstamatic photographer Dave norbut goes old school with Tintype salt prints

Hipstamatic was created around the idea of blending old and new, so we’re always stoked when we see our community iterating on that same philosophy.

Dave Norbut, a Hipstamatic photographer specializing in portraits, is blending one of the oldest methods of printing— salt prints — with his beautiful Hipstamatic Tintype portraits. “I wanted to put my hands back into the process. I just didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do,” said Norbut. “When Hipstamatic released the Tintype Snap Pak, it dawned on me: Wouldn’t it be great to actually print these with one of the old processes? So I set out to take a series of portraits, all the while studying and preparing to print them old school.”

Norbut landed on the salt print process, which was invented in the mid-1800s and is one of the first ways photographic images were put to paper. The results are pretty impressive, so be sure to check out more of Dave’s work online. —ms