Tintype Caturday Art

I bet you are wondering how my tintype photo session turned out! We got the digital images of the photo shoot a little over a week ago, but we don’t have the actual tintypes yet — between my human’s schedule and the photographer’s schedule, it’s been difficult for them to meet up. We will get them eventually so you can see what an actual tintype image looks like, but for now, I’ll just share my two favorite photos from the session here.

The about page on the Tin Machina website says: “We specialize in portraits using the wet plate collodion process from the 1850’s. These timeless metal or glass photographs use silver and light to develop a superior image with a surreal quality that will literally last for generations.” The photographer human gave us digital photos both with and without a sepia tint. I thought the sepia was cool, so here it is. I look like a show cat from the old days!

Here is the other angle I liked a lot. My human and I like these photos a lot because they show a completely different side of me and they really do look vintage! My human’s favorite part is what the photographer calls the “artifacts” — those little imperfections all around the photo edges. They are not templates or in the frame — they happen naturally as a part of the process.

Other than the tint and resizing them for the blog, these are exactly what the photographer shot and developed. My human didn’t do anything to them (she thought it might be fun to try digitally hand tinting one, but she’s still learning how to do that… and making a cat look good is really hard!). But I still think they count as Caturday Art pictures!
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