Another quick set in between tintypes. During a tintype session, there’s three or so minutes between shots when the plate is in the silver bath sensitizing. Or, “cooking” as I often call it. sometimes we’ll use that time to refine the next pose. Sometimes we’ll use it to make tea, eat honey and fuck around with the digital camera. There is a pause in the shoot between plates. This is that pause.
On another note. Yet again today I’m confronted with the disconnect that many photographers experience. The idea that photography is easy, or is just taking a picture, or just pushing a button. Whether it be in a casual way or in a very professional, commercial sense. What we do, if we’re doing it professionally, at a certain level, is the culmination of YEARS, DECADES, of experience and knowledge. Its not just the ability to make an image the fulfills the requirements, but file management, lighting, set building, production, execution, delivery on and on and on. The elements that go into this industry are as vast and complex as any industry. Yet we’re frequently seen as someone that just takes pictures. Its very frustrating to deal with. The need to educate our clients is very real and its a blind spot they have that we need to fill in. They don’t know what they don’t know. The lesson is how to take that resistance, that head wind and use it to an advantage. I’ll let you know when I figure out how to do that.
Enough seriousness, back to the honey eater. Thanks for reading. Click the images to get to the whole gallery.
Cheers!
