January Tintype Portrait Session
Rachel (@racheljulianxo) and I met in Neenah for a January tintype portrait session. January is not usually the best time to capture outdoor tintypes. I don’t know that very many people enjoy standing outside in the cold and holding still for a wet plate collodion portrait. I think shivering will definitely blur your portrait. The cold is hard on collodion chemicals too. Everything slows down, light sensitivity drops and development takes longer. Below freezing the collodion will freeze and not work at all. But after a very cold two weeks the Wisconsin weather shifted to warm (at least not so…