Taking a tintype photo in a studio

- All right, so our plate is ready for us to mount into the holder, so we can capture our portrait. So we had three minutes in the solution here. So what's involved now in finalizing this process? - So we, one, remove the plate from the silver nitrate. It's been sensitized, it's ready to be shot. And we wanna take it out of the silver tank. And then we wanna put it into the holder, the plate holder, which is light tight. And we can take it out so that it can be exposed in the camera. - Okay. - So I'm gonna do that right now. - [Man In Light Shirt] Excellent. - And here is, and when I take it out, you can see that the plate has been transformed. So it has a sort of gray, milky look to it. - [Man In Light Shirt] Oh, wow, yeah. No longer black. - [Man In Dark Shirt] No longer black. - [Man In Light Shirt] Interesting. - And the one thing we like to do is we wanna get the back of the plate nice and dry. Don't want any excess silver on it. And we look at the plate so the pouring line is…