{"id":2615,"date":"2018-06-16T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2018-06-16T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T03:00:49","slug":"tintype-workshop-at-visarts-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/tintype-workshop-at-visarts-in-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Tintype Workshop at VisArts in Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 2nd and 3rd I took a tintype<\/a> workshop at the Visual Arts Center<\/a> in Richmond.\u00a0 This was my first time trying the wet plate process.\u00a0 I’ve shot just about everything else, so I guess it was time :-).\u00a0 It was taught by Michael Bartolotta<\/a>.\u00a0 He teaches several tintype workshops each year.\u00a0 So, if you’re interested in the process, I’d highly recommend his workshop.\u00a0 He gave a brief history, gave a demo of the process, and we were off shooting.\u00a0 I have a 4×5 view camera that I’d bought back in the 80’s, so I brought that along.\u00a0 But he has several cameras for class members to use, so you need not bring anything other than yourself.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the images I made in the two day workshop.\u00a0 (the color of the scans varies somewhat, and that’s due to my scanning.\u00a0 The plates have a slight sepia tint after they are dried and varnished)<\/p>\n

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First plate \ud83d\ude42 Exposure was pretty good for my first guess. 8 seconds at f\/8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Second plate. I used a gold reflector to push a bit of light into the dark part of the flower arrangement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We were fighting rain all weekend, so we started inside. The rain stopped for a bit, so I found this view off the balcony on the back of the building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mannequins in the fabric studio downstairs. It had started raining again, so I’d gone looking for indoor subjects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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First plate on day 2. I was planning a self portrait and shot this first plate as a light test.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Self portrait, using an air bulb release.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I tried a reflection photo in the door…with somewhat sucky results.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There was a glass blowing class going on at Visarts the same weekend. I turned the camera around from the self portrait and shot a plate of the class in action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike was shooting a portrait of one of the other class members, so I set the camera up for this somewhat “behind the scenes” photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike took a portrait of each of us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Class photo. There were three of us in the class, but one member couldn’t attend on Sunday due to flooding in her area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 2nd and 3rd I took a tintype workshop at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond.\u00a0 This was my first time trying the wet plate process.\u00a0 I’ve shot just about everything else, so I guess it was time :-).\u00a0 It was taught by Michael Bartolotta.\u00a0 He teaches several tintypeSee more….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[196,197,198],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-John","4":"post-2615","6":"format-standard","7":"category-tintype","8":"post_tag-tintype","9":"post_tag-wet-plate","10":"post_tag-wet-plate-collodian"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22zi6-Gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnberryphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}