Last summer, the Betty Brinn Children's Museum brought the Camera Obscura project to the Big Gig BBQ. For those of you that are not familiar with this project, The Milwaukee Arts board awarded the Betty Brinn Children's Museum a grant in order to create a walk in, trailer sized, functional camera! Inside this trailer(camera) we can capture images on tin, as well as do all of our developing inside. So the trailer is acting as the camera and the darkroom. The Betty Brinn Children's Museum collaborated with Joseph Mougel and Lainy Koch from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to help research and make this project possible.
It was a beautiful day at the Big Gig BBQ for the "Modern Tintype" process! Full sun meant that we were able to keep our exposure time low and get sharp images from the camera. The working iso(light sensitivity) of the tintype plates that we prepare is only about 3 compared to modern day film that typically is 200-400 speed film.
After the image is taken, we transported the plates into a supplemental darkroom where we did all the developing on site so that everyone could take their portrait home the same day.
Typical wait time for the images was approximately 1 hour for the processing, and then running it through 5 water baths each for 5 minutes.
This process really makes you appreciate digital photography and taking 100+ photos and then deleting all the photos that you don't like, but thats why I believe each one of these items that we were able to give to everyone was that much more special.
Below are some of the photos that we gave to the participants:
Stay tuned!
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