
Bay Area Tintype will be hosting a tintype portrait pop-up event at Medium Art Center in Ukiah June 13th from 12-5PM. This event is open to the public. Appointments can be scheduled in advance on our website but walk ups are welcome! Sessions are 30 minutes and include one 4″X5″ for $100. Guests are welcome to watch and learn about the development process and shop for vintage treasures.
Tintypes are created using the wet plate collodion process. This process uses hand poured chemicals on an enameled sheet of metal resulting in one of a kind positive photographs. Introduced in 1851, wet plate collodion was the predominant photographic process until the 1880’s.