From a continuing series images of Grand Central Terminal. I always capture images in color, many times (okay, most times it seems)  I will convert them to black & white. While I usually play it very straight with my images, sometimes I will tone them and sometimes, well sometimes I like to do something a little different with them.

This image falls into the a little different category. For this image I used an app from my phone, it uses the phone camera to capture an image as a old fashioned tintype or it will allow you to bring an image into it from the photo roll of the phone to convert it to a tintype image, which is what I did here. Yes you can do this kind of conversion on your computer but it's a bit of work, this is a whole lot easier although a little cumbersome. First I capture an image, import it into Lightroom, convert it to black & white, make any tonal adjustments I think are necessary. Then I email the image to my self (this is where cumbersome comes in) download it to my phone from the email, use the app to convert to a tintype, make a few adjustments (there are only a few you can make here) and then either email the image back to myself or download it directly from the phone to my computer. Import it back into Lightroom (remember I said cumbersome), make a few adjustments as needed  and then to the printer, almost everything I do goes to print, as it should. This really goes pretty quickly, a couple minutes at most. No it's not an original Tintype (that's a really cumbersome process!), no it's not for every image, but for some subjects, I think it works well. I've printed a series of these on a very nice warm toned mat paper with a deckled edge that I am going to mount floating inside an oversized mat. I have a show coming up, think these may be what I will use. To see more of this series look on my site under Grand Central Terminal an alternate view.