Commercial · Handmade Tintype Images

Authentic 19th-century American Tintype portraiture, on location made using the same period process.

Wet plate tintype collodion portraiture for film, television, publishing, and brand productions — authentic period imagery made by hand, on location or in studio.

 

Tombstone Arizona

Period & character

Western, Civil War, and Victorian portraiture for productions and campaigns..

Outlaw Ghost Tintype
Inspired Tintype
Victorian Lady ]Tintype
Lion Tamer Tintype
Tintype
Tintype
The Gambler Tintype
Tombstone Tintype
A smiling woman with curly hair, wearing earrings and a white off-shoulder top, standing behind a man with shoulder-length blond hair and a beard, who is wearing a striped shirt and dark vest, in front of a brown textured backdrop.
Negative Tintype
A black-and-white portrait of an elderly man with a beard and long hair, wearing a dark jacket and a collared shirt.
Civil War Tintype
Civil War Sailor Tintype
Victorian Baseball Team Tintype
Victorian Baseball Game Tintype

Published & Commissioned

Don Dahler Tintype
Dennis Tafoya Tintype
Don Dahler Tintype
Bryan Thomas Baxter Tintype
Chas and the Skylands Gang Tintype

  • Don Dahler — Souvenirs From An Absurd Life - wet plate Tintype cover photography

  • Dennis Tafoya — Crime novelist creator of Dope Thief - author portrait, wet plate Tintype.

  • Bryan Thomas Baxter — Album cover tintype

  • Chas and the Skylands Gang - Album cover tintype

A black and white photograph of a man with a full beard and styled hair, wearing a pinstripe suit and a patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.
Black and white photograph of a man with curly hair, wearing a leather jacket and casual clothes, sitting on a motorcycle with a forest background.
A woman in traditional attire holding a spinning wheel above her head in an industrial or workshop setting.
A photograph of a woman with dark, curly hair, wearing a black top, taking a selfie in a mirror illuminated by red light.
Black and white portrait of a woman wearing a top hat, with straight hair, wearing a sleeveless top, and looking directly at the camera.

Editorial & Model Portraiture — wet plate portraits with the depth and presence of a bygone era, for fashion, editorial, and campaign work

The Process

Every plate is coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed by hand — in a few minutes, on set or on location. Nothing is simulated in post. The period look is real because the process is: what the camera makes is what you get, an artifact that reads authentically because it was made the way it actually would have been, in the era it evokes. For a production or a brand that needs the real thing rather than a filter, this is it.

 

Fixing a 16×20 Tintype

Have a production, a campaign, or a cover in mind? Let's talk about what wet plate collodion tintype can do for it.