I don’t know about you, but sometimes there are just too many creative things I want to try. I’ve wanted to try TtV photography for a long time, but just never got around to it. Mainly I would see it online somewhere, love it…then I’d forget about it. Well this week Rachel posted her first experience and it was just the little shove I needed. There are lots of great online tutorials, Rachel shared this one on Hula Seventy. If you don’t have an old camera to use, you can fake TtV using Photoshop. Just Google instructions and there are tons out there. Looking at other sites, I am obviously doing something wrong because everyone else’s does not have the square corners in their shots…just perfect little black trim on the edges. I also didn’t clean my old camera AT ALL – so I am going to do that too. Finally I noticed the little strap on top of my Brownie Hawkeye kept getting in my shots – one more thing to remedy. I’ll have to figure all that out and post more next week. Feel free to give me pointers if you are experienced with TtV! Until then, here is my very first attempts at TtV…it was fun!
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A Few Favorite Posts
Jeannette Swan - I don’t even understand what you are doing!
Michele V. - I’m right there with you Jeannette…. what are you doing?
Allison - I’ve been meaning to try since I bought the perfect camera to do it with. I always seem to forget and then run out of light! I’m going to try and do it this week though. I love how yours turned out! Are the square corners specific to the type of camera you used maybe?
Stephanie - Ok. This is a really silly question, so please don’t judge me on it, but I’m interested in testing out TtV photography…does the old/vintage camera need to be in working condition? or are you just utilizing the viewfinder?
Sandy - I too had to go look up what Ttv was, guess I am not alone. I have to say, it’s really pretty cool. I really like the last one of the window. The shadow effects around it and the black boarder makes the pic look old. I like it.
Anna Marie - Stephanie your old camera does not have to work. You just need it to have the lenses. I bought a Kodak Duaflex at a local antique store to try it out but once I got it home and tried it the first time I realized that the top corner of the lens was cracked so I couldn’t get the four perfectly rounded corners 🙁 I am on the look out for another. I am wondering if those square corner things in your picture is because those are on your brownie lens??? I have heard that the Duaflex is the best way to go for the TtV shots. But I could be wrong. There are some awesome TtV Flickr groups out there.
susie whyte - i saw this on rachel’s blog, too!! i love it!!
Asha - I’ve seen Ruby from Cakies and Rachael from Smile and Wave do this and I think it’s great but did you know you could just use a simple mask in photoshop without the complicated contraption menthod? There are a ton of them on flickr.
Asha - Here is all the info you need:
http://asha-mary.blogspot.com/2009/08/through-viewfinder.html