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Tintype Artifacts

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So, if I were to create a bucket list just for my photography, this would have been on it.  Learn how to make a Tintype and do it .  Throughout my photographic career I have gotten really good at theory and less good at practice.  Yes, that is how I scratched a name for myself - the theory of photographic practices as written in articles and books - and I do actually love the theory, but I love the creation of photography even more.  That is something I have sort of forgotten recently. Once you start teaching and keeping active with writing and raising kids, short cuts start sounding really good.  So, I have been playing around in my digital photographic world, seeing if my Silver Efex Pro can actually make an image reminiscent of my favorite Tri-X film, or trying to fake those exposed negative edges as an image frame. But a couple of important things happened to me in the last year that have brought me back to the thing I love most about photography, and that is the artifact .  I