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Wet Plate Tintype Portrait Photography
I’m Dylan Burr, a wet plate collodion / tintype photographer in Denver Colorado. I create modern wet plate collodion tintypes, and ambrotypes in studio, or on location. I absolutely love this process.
Wet Plate is a historic photographic process that enables me to connect with the building blocks of photography and share that experience with others. It’s extremely fun and difficult. When you get it right it is true magic.
Wet Plate Collodion and Tintype Photography are one-in-the-same. It's is the same prographic process, but the photos are on different surfaces. Tintypes are made with cheap metal, that may or may not be tin. Ambrotypes are wet plate collodion photos on glass.
Most photographs from the civil war era are tintype photographs.
It's not about being perfect. The beauty is in the errors.
Watch this video to see the process of creating a photograph.
Tintype Photography Photobooth
New Hybrid Technique
After being asked to do events I have worked out a new technique to be able to produce more portraits in a 3 to 4 hour timespan but maintain the same look and I can guarantee results.
I have combined my 1870's lenses and 8x10 view camera but with digital capture.
This approach enables me to do events as a photo booth to produce more images per hour. I can now have a portrait done in 2 minutes vs 20 minutes. I produce metallic prints on-site that are ready right away. The image captured is the same since I am using the same historical lenses.
The final metallic print looks amazing. Everyone really enjoys making a good portrait and asking about all my 140 year old gear I use.
This process afforts me several benefits
- I can produce approx 20-30 images an hour vs 4
- Not subjected to weather or location limits
- Final portraits ready in minutes vs several days after
- No hazardous chemicals needing proper ventilation
- I can guarantee results
The images really speak for themselves
