TtV Technique.

For awhile now I have had an interest in photographs taken with a TtV contraption. With TtV (or Through the Viewfinder) photography, the concept is to shoot with a digital camera through the pop-up viewfinder of a vintage camera in order to benefit from the distortion and grunge inherent in the older cameras.

If you have one of these vintage cameras, you have to build a crazy box to block out light... and you have to have a macro lens... blab blah blah. Well, I don't have a macro lens. Yet.

This is what everything would look like put together:

Well... since I really don't have the time (or moo-la) to experiment with something like that right now, I've been on the hunt for some cool digital overlays that would produce the same effect.

Couldn't find one.

But then a friend posted something about using fake TtV technique, and I don't know exactly how she did it... but I am assuming that she had found a blank picture that someone had taken using a TtV technique. Then I guess she worked with it and converted it for use in photoshop as an overlay.

....so super long story a little less long....

I found a plain white blank picture (of a wall I guess???), that was shot TtV... and tried to make my own overlay. It looks pretty cool.. eh? Not as cool as the real thing... but cool nonetheless.

Comments

[Beka]

Oh I love it!!!!!!! Am I the friend? I LOVE ttv! (still haven't built my contraption, though.) And it doesn't take a lot of moolah...5 bucks on ebay for my argus 75:)

[Heidi Sonboul]

Hey Amy love :)
you've been taged as my fav ;) pass it on and check out my blog.

[Jamie C.]

Sometimes you have to do what you can!

[Amanda J.]

That looks awesome!!! I love the way those turned out :).