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Shooting Tintype Portraits at the Sundance Film Festival

Chris Gampat
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04/07/2015
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Last Updated on 04/07/2015 by Chris Gampat

Screenshot taken from the video
Screenshot taken from the video

Photographer Victoria Will shot Tintype portraits at this year’s Sundance Film Festival; and Profoto was able to capture what was going on behind the scenes. Victoria starts out by talking about how tough Tintype shooting is and how the images need to be prepped shot and developed within a couple of minutes while everything is still wet. A photographic emulsion layer is put onto a piece of tin, photographically exposed and then brought back to the darkroom for development.

Victoria talks about how actors love the collaborative experience with the photographer more than just taking directions and so when Victoria shows the celebrities some of her favorite images, they begin to get new ideas and the creative freedom just flows.

The process is also shown in the video in addition to lots of the absolutely beautiful images. The video is after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.