Tintype Portrait Photography in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin

Authentic analog photography – real images made with historic methods.

Tintypes (and Ambrotypes on glass) are handmade, one of a kind art images that will last a lifetime and beyond.

You have a thousand pictures on your phone, why not have a timeless beautiful portrait hanging on your wall for generations of people to enjoy?

Neenah, Wisconsin home base

Traveling pop ups throughout the midwest


Ready to book your portrait session?


Options we offer:

  • Studio Sessions in Neenah
  • On location sessions (weather permitting)
  • Porch Sessions at your home
  • Pop Ups around Wisconsin and the upper Midwest

Here are some recent portraits


Interested in learning more? You can Book a Portrait Session, Purchase a plate or print, or come to one of our Pop Ups or events this Summer!

The mobile darkroom trailer build is in full swing and we will have it ready for events around Wisconsin this Summer! Check out the Mobile Darkroom Build post for an update.

Check out our Portfolio

See more prints for sale in our Etsy Store

Learn more about the Wet Plate Collodion Process, Salt Printing, and the Cyanotype Process


Learn more about tintype photography on my blog

Recent Posts

  • Is it live or is it…
    There was a series of commercials from back when my age was a single digital. They were for Memorex cassette tape and my favorite featured Ella Fitzgerald breaking a wine glass with her voice. They showed Ella doing the glass break live and then they broke another glass with a tape recording of her voice. So the message was you don’t need Ella Fitzgerald, all you need is a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald. Fast forward to today and we see computers making pictures using algorithms deceptively called “AI”. The… Read more: Is it live or is it…
  • BTS Tintype Session with Nataly
    Time to go BTS on a tintype session with Nataly Divine. The warm February 1st gave us an opportunity for some outdoor Tintype portrait. We also grabbed a few digital pictures during our tintype session for a bit of BTS (Behind The Scenes). Nataly wore a beautiful red dress in a 1920’s style. Here are a few close ups of her in both monotone / black and white and color. The color picture captures the overcast skies at the end of our time together. Of course, where would a BTS… Read more: BTS Tintype Session with Nataly
  • How Changing Light Impacts Wet Plate Collodion
    One of the most difficult aspects of 19th century photography is how changing light impacts wet plate collodion. The light sensitive silver in a wet plate “sees” light much differently than our eyes. Yellow and blue become white and shades of orange become black. Tattoos can completely disappear and eye glasses can look like sun glasses in the portrait. More modern cameras come equipped with sophisticated light meters. The light in the scene is measured when you take the photograph and the camera will adjust the exposure to get it… Read more: How Changing Light Impacts Wet Plate Collodion
  • Behind The Scenes of Wet Plate Collodion Photography
    Why does a wet plate cost so much? A question I sometimes get, although not too often. Part of the cost is the part my clients see – the actual image capture. But the session is actually the smallest part of making historic tintypes and Ambrotypes. So let’s go behind the scenes of wet plate collodion photography and see some of the work that goes into making your historic image. Chemical Preparation The foundation of the process is chemistry. Before anything else happens there are a bunch of chemicals that… Read more: Behind The Scenes of Wet Plate Collodion Photography
  • Now – Tintype
    Now! It seems like everything screams now! Now is a 5x7in tintype. Sometimes the most random and unplanned work turns out to be the most interesting. Here is a tintype I did to test lighting and exposure. It is actually some artwork my Niece did. It is a painting on a board that says “Snow”. With the limited space in my studio I was not able to get the whole sign in frame so it ended up being “now” instead. I was going to just clean off the image to… Read more: Now – Tintype
  • Hand Saw Tintype
    Two old hand saws in a tintype photo. One of my Winter projects is to capture some of my old tools in wet plate collodion. This 5×7 tintype is an image of my two old handsaws. I have no idea when I purchased either one of them. But do know that I have had them each for decades. I wonder how many projects these saws have been part of? I have been an active handyman for my whole life – home remodeling projects, furniture building, cutting down trees, building all… Read more: Hand Saw Tintype
  • Do You Believe?
    Believe To think that something is true, correct or real Do you believe? Or maybe a better question is what do you believe? Whether you believe me or not I think everyone has a belief system. Your belief system is a set of things you assume to be true. Proof or evidence is not really at issue here because none of us are completely rational. We all like to think we are rational (I do!) but it is extremely difficult to really be dispassionate and totally objective. The problem is… Read more: Do You Believe?
  • Random Wet Plates
    Before January is over I need to catch up on random wet plates from 2023. I left my full time job last April to focus on alternative photography full time. Within a few weeks I started to wonder how I ever had 40+ hours a week to work a full time job. The days go by and the weeks go by and soon the year is gone and another year has started. So here is a collection of random wet plates I did during 2023. Somehow I never got around… Read more: Random Wet Plates
  • Halloween Tintypes
    I am either really early for Halloween or really late! You decide, but I hope you enjoy these Halloween Tintypes even if they are out of season. This set of Halloween Tintypes, or Halloween cosplay tintypes, was made in October 2023 and I’ve freely confess that I have been too unproductive to post and share the story until now! We had planned a tintype photo session on the beach the week before Halloween. But life sometimes gets in the way and the client had a last minute happening and had… Read more: Halloween Tintypes

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