Valentine's Day: Cold Yet Largely Clear
Feb. 14th, 2009 07:39 pmRocky zipper paratrooper boots, my darkest black Wrangler jeans, blue/black/white plaid flannel shirt, black Carhartt thermal T, black pouch briefs, usual Dickies socks.
In honor of the day--
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In honor of the day--
Tintypes (ferrotype): The ferrotype, better known as the tintype in America, where it reached its greatest popularity, was derived from the ambrotype [example of an ambrotype below].
and like it depended on the fact that a collodion negative appeared to be a positive image when viewed against a dark backgound. In the case of the tintype the negative was made not on glass but on a thin sheet of iron coated with an opaque black or chocolate-brown lacquer or enamel.. (As the tintype was iron rather than tin, tintype is a misnomer.) ... A tintype was a unique image and could only be duplicated by being rephotographed.
This one is frequently on my desktop wallpaper:
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and like it depended on the fact that a collodion negative appeared to be a positive image when viewed against a dark backgound. In the case of the tintype the negative was made not on glass but on a thin sheet of iron coated with an opaque black or chocolate-brown lacquer or enamel.. (As the tintype was iron rather than tin, tintype is a misnomer.) ... A tintype was a unique image and could only be duplicated by being rephotographed.
This one is frequently on my desktop wallpaper:
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