Adam Savage's Tintype Portrait (from Tested: The Show!) 

Fantastic presentation. Great video

Adam needs to dress in a civil war uniform and have another one taken.

I honestly wasn't expecting the portrait to come out THAT good. Wow, I want a set of that old-timey gear for myself.

I'm glad I found Tested last year.

That really is an amazing portrait tho.

Anyone hear that guy in the audience yell "missing an eyebrow?" XD

Excellent final result! So amazing when it went to positive in the last step. I'd love to have this done.

I WAS THERE AND GOT A SELFIE WITH ADAM, NORM, AND WILL, AND ADDED A FEW AUTOGRAPHS TO MY COLLECTION! =-)

I absolutely love this method of photography. Its so detalied its insane. An art.

That was gorgeous. I could watch that process all day.

Amazing to watch. Can you imagine how excited people were seeing this for the first time!

Wow absolutely amazing what could be done before computers were the norm. Not to mention the quality that came out of it as well. That photo looks like a priceless piece of history. Kudos to the photographer.

I had never heard of tintypes until the video they did on them a while back. Fell in love with them. The detail is amazing.

This is super awesome! Tested, keep em coming!

What a great presentation from Mr. Shindler and a fantastic result. That was a great image!

One of the first times I have seen a wet plate done on that scale. Amazing stuff.

awesome,cant wait for the rest of the show!!!

What a stunning portrait after that process. Adam looked so cool after that. Just awesome!!! Thanks as always tested, you guys are keeping my brain filled with all kinds of new knowledge.

That is phenomenal!

How I would love a photo done by Michael. That was brilliant.

Ahhh, the good old days. Talk about developing by inspection! So, ah, he's either a brilliant portraitist or Adam's been in front of a camera before... Or, there's nothing like a 10-15" lens for portraiture.

Just make sure you watch to the end. It is so worth it. Great video

One word.. awesome!

I love the sense of magic in this demonstration, or rather, the awesome chemical wonder paired with the highly skilled crasftmanship. Shindler makes it look easy, like a true master of his art. Very inspiring!

Stunning portrait, would've loved to have seen it live. Great video as always Tested.

Wow that was amazing. The portrait came out beautifully.

So cool! Now I want to get one done!

That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time!

I was shocked by how detailed the final picture was! Really interesting presentation, guys.

That's brilliant, start to finish showing the process of photography as a magic show was inspired.

that is just amazing!!!

Wow!! That turned out great! I'm going to have to try this!

That is fantastic!

I love doing wetplate. seriously my favorite form of photography and to see adam get a portrait done is really cool to me.

That is fantastic! I would love to have one of those on my wall!

Amazing work! The outcome alone makes me WANT TO DO THIS MYSELF!

I just realized that I was in the edge of my seat the whole time I was watching!

Mr. Schindler came to several Civil War reenactments that I was at decades ago. Fascinating process, and I'm very glad he is still practicing his art.

What a great photo!

That portrait is beautiful.

Great portrait! Much faster than I expected

That was magical.

Amazing!

This is truly magnificent art.

That is just such a kool process, and the results are amazing with a touch of class.

That was really quite interesting. I would have liked more about the chemistry and the *history* of how these discoveries were made, but I understand that it's an on-stage demonstration of the process, not a full lecture.

best video in a very long time

It's amazing to consider that the photographic process, introduced in 1839 by Louis Daguerre, had developed this quickly in less than fifteen years.

Whoever yelled "Are you missing an eyebrow?" is my hero.

What a beautiful video.

So cool! The tested show looks great, would love to go someday.

The "am I missing an eyebrow?" comment brought back memories!

I just love this!

Stunning work and a great photograph. The slight smile was perfect and gives a nice hint of Adam's mischievous nature. :D

I fucking love how genuinely amazed Adam was

That was awesome, reminds me of taking photography in High School, and working in the darkroom. Nice explanation of the process as well, in high school they just showed us how to do it, but never talked about the actual chemical process. I remember finding a shortcut in the development process for photo paper, for when I was doing a exposure test. Normally you would do something like: certain amount of time in the developer, stopper, water wash, fixer, another water wash, etc. I found that I could dip the paper in the developer until it was fully developed, and just take it out and walk out of the dark room. I would have about 3-5 seconds in bright light to determine which exposure was good before the paper would turn black. Not "proper procedure" per-se, but it would save me about 5-10 minutes off of the full development time (and when you're in a 40 minute class, every minute helps).

that is just amazing it makes me want a picture like that

I didn't think I was gonna watch the whole damn thing... but I watched the whole damn thing. Really fascinating stuff.

That was awesome. Photography has always fascinated me. I am still perplexed about the science in how images are captured and how these chemicals create the picture.

This was so fun to watch I wanted to clap with the crowd, and almost did! I look forward to having this done for myself some day. Very well done.

Wow! Awesome video!

Wow...that was so cool.....that'd be popular as a poster..... Great pic of you Adam

Very nice its good to see the old school is not lost.

To be honest, I was expecting something half baked. But it does look like a portrait. Well done!

that was incredible

Wow that's really cool

Dang, great photo!

That's really cool.

fantastic

Many thumbs up!

That is cool !

that is sooo cool...

seeing adam in that chair i was thinking ""you know that chair looks like an electric chair, if this was mythbusters he'd be getting a shock any second now.""

I appreciate the audio quality in this. I remember the first set of tested the show being worse

Magic!

Wow that end result looked incredible, the steps are so tedious and have to be done in a timely matter too! Haha, but boy is it worth it. I would love to get one of myself and my girlfriend.

Sweet!!

A timeless photo. Beautiful technology. I can basically throw all of my first gen digital images in the bin today, not gonna happen with a tin type photo.

The advantage to tintype and film is that it doesn't require resolutions that digital uses, it just depends on the size of plate or film you use.

Michael Shindler is awesome!

I want one too!!!! awesome!

THAT was a freaking damned good portrait.

Just awesome. The camera is no slouch - at that size... Were usually done 4x5"-ish. What a great way to get back to the reality of photography and at that size? A work of art in every print. But expensive dealing with 'blinkers'... lol

Thank You!!!

Wow, I was not expecting it to look that great. But the process and chemicals and labor involved explains why photography was limited to the very wealthy when it first appeared. Now we have cameras on our $10 disposable phones and have lost our appreciation for how much required to make it happen (not a chemical process anymore, but still amazing nonetheless). JW3HH

This is really fascinating! :D

That was actually a very good portrait he took there.

Awesome. Using large format camera + old school process. And here I'm still stuck with medium format :p

WoW!

Beautiful, I regret not doing alternative processes like tintype and cyanotype back when I went to photo school.

Well Done.

That is almost a museum quality portrait.

this is how adam should have all his cosplay photos taken

Last year's videos: the audio was clipping. This year: the audio is clipping. How come nobody's caught this two years in a row now?!

I want one!

@8:37 someone from the audience asking Adam about his eyebrow, a reference to Adam Savage's line "Am I missing an eyebrow?" from the mythBusters show! 😂

Now wrap your head around how Carleton Watkins did all that while in the field shooing the Columbia George, and Yosemite valley. He shot landscapes on those large plates.

This is really cool. I wonder just how expensive it is. I'd love to do my own some day.

Great...now I want one...

The part at 7:08, is there a cover on the metal at this point? or is he not concerned with the light because its so dim...? It looks like it would start exposing to the light that was turned on.