Jen Jansen
  • Book a sitting
    • Video of the tintype process
  • Tintypes
  • Restorations
  • About
  • Book a sitting
    • Video of the tintype process
  • Tintypes
  • Restorations
  • About
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

6/28/2012 0 Comments

Proof of Life, tintype portraiture

Please save the date for August 25th.  I am grateful to share my tintype portraiture with JDC fine art.  The show will run August 3 - October 31, 2012.  The opening reception will be held on August 25th from 5 - 7:30 pm.  The press release is attached below!
Picture
0 Comments

6/26/2012 0 Comments

Dinosaur tintype

This image is the end result of a 'you build it' dinosaur bones kit.  First the dino bones, uh little wood pieces :), were fitted together.  Then he was all ready for his tintype portrait.  I plated this image to brown aluminum to warm up those brittle dino bones.  Just for fun! Happy Tuesday!
Picture
0 Comments

6/19/2012 0 Comments

For dad, tintype cufflinks

Picture
Digitype cufflinks, shown here in digitin and digidag styles.
My brother asked me to make our dad something special for Father's Day.  These are what we came up with, a set of digitype cufflinks with miniature tintypes of our dad's parents. 

I took the original paper photograph of my grandparents, and turned that into two miniature tintypes, then fit them into little ready to wear cufflinks.
0 Comments

6/14/2012 2 Comments

Making digitypes

Preserve your family memories by turning your paper photographs into tintypes. 

Click here to get started uploading your images! 
2 Comments

6/12/2012 0 Comments

Blue Orchid

Picture
Yesterday's plating resulted in a few tintypes of an orchid I got as a gift a few weeks ago.  I'm the worst with plants.  I have an "everyone gets hit with the hose" philosophy of watering the plants in my garden.  So the likely hood that this dear orchid will survive in my hands for very long is quite slim.  Luckily this version will last forever!  This plate was made with blue aluminum and exposed in camera to create an 8x10 tintype.

0 Comments

6/12/2012 0 Comments

Turning Digital photographs into tintypes!

Picture
Using my simple uploader you can upload your digital photographs and turn them into your very own tintypes! 

Available in either black or silver metal. 

Click here to get started!

0 Comments

6/7/2012 1 Comment

Turning digital photographs into tintypes!

Picture
I can now take any digital image and turn it into a tintype!

T
his image originated as a digital file and was uploaded to my shop. 

Click here to get started making a digital tintype of your own!  You can also restore your old paper family photographs permanently by turning them into digital tintypes, preserving your precious memories with metal photographs.

I get at least one phone call a week asking about photographic restoration.  I have been restoring tattered faded old photographs for over a decade, first creating a newly repaired negative and then a new photograph to replace the damaged original.  I now encourage clients to make their restorations to tintypes so that their images will last for generations, and memories of loved ones can be preserved permanently. 


1 Comment

6/5/2012 1 Comment

The Emerging Image, a tintype as it fixes

1 Comment

6/4/2012 0 Comments

Eat blueberries, a tintype series

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
This group of tintypes are a part of a larger mosaic piece entitled eat blueberries.  The individual tintypes measure 5"x7".
0 Comments

6/3/2012 0 Comments

Mini Tini, a video of our miniature tintype workshop

On Saturday I hosted a tintype workshop at my studio.  The video below is a slideshow of the day and the tintypes and ambrotypes that were made.  We used a variety of different colored glass and metals to make our tintypes, and we exposed using miniature and toy cameras.  It was a fun day and for five new tintypers, a successful first venture into wet plate collodion photography.
0 Comments

6/1/2012 0 Comments

Jack, a 5 second tintype exposure

Picture
Isn't it hard to stand still!?  Last weekend Jack and his parents came by the studio to pick up some work.  I had my portable darkroom set up outside so we made a tintype in the traditional style.  Traditional in that there were no strobe lights!  For this tintype Jack stood on a stool with his toy monkey for 5 seconds while I held open the lens.  The bit of movement that we captured in this photograph reminded Jack's mom of an old image of her father at the same age.  I feel like we froze a moment of Jack's childhood with this shot, albeit fuzzy like far away thoughts of our own childhood memories.
0 Comments

    About me:

    Picture
    Hello!  Thank you for visiting my website.  I am located in Chicago, IL and take appointments for tintypes & ambrotypes, children's panels and custom restoration work of old photographs.   To contact for an appointment, please email: jenjansenphoto@gmail.com.

    Categories

    All Artwork Button Eyes Color Work Digitype Eyes Wide Shut Faux Digidag One White Wall Personal Work Polaroid Booth Restoration Studio Portraiture The Weenut Tintype Portraiture Wedding Workshop

    Archives

    October 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    April 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    March 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    February 2016
    September 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    August 2011

    RSS Feed

© Jen Jansen Photography. All rights reserved. 
All images by Jen Jansen unless otherwise stated.