How a Tintype is Made

This video offers a glimpse of the Wet Plate Collodion photographic process, illustrating the making of a Tintype.  From the 1850s through the 1870s, Wet Plate Collodion was the dominant photographic process. Virtually all photographs made of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) were made with Wet Plate Collodion.  A Tintype is a positive image made on black-painted metal.  The process can also be used to make positives on glass (Ambrotypes) or negatives on glass.

Wet Plate Demonstration

Shooting With The Camera

In The Dark Tent

Develop and Print

Wet Plate History with Mac Part One

Wet Plate History with Mac Part 2