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Tintype by Hipstamatic

Tintype by Hipstamatic - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Tintype by Hipstamatic

- [Sean Duggan] Hey everyone, Sean Duggan here. And you know ever since photo apps for camera phones first came on the scene, one of the most popular photo genres have been apps that apply an antique or an old and distressed photo effect. This week on Mobile Photography Weekly, we're gonna check out the TinType app for iOS. This app is made by Hipstamatic and it's one of the best out there in terms of creating a very realistic looking tintype effect. Alright so when we first go into TinType, it's gonna take us into the camera app, and what I have here is an actual TinType from the 1800s. And so this is really meta here. I'm photographing a tintype from the 1800s with an app that creates a fake tintype effect. It doesn't get much more thrilling than that folks. What I'm gonna do is get pretty close to these guys and notice that I have the top of the viewfinder pretty close to the top of their hats. Alright? They're a little bit out of focus there but that's fine. I just wanna point out…

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