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10/31/2012 5 Comments

Toy Camera Wet Plate

The next wet plate workshop is on December 8th!

Toy Camera Wet Plate, a tintype workshop sponsored by Medium and taught by Jen Jansen. 

Date: December 8, 2012

In this one day workshop, participants can expect to make their own miniature tintypes and ambrotypes in toy cameras!

Students are taught a basic chemical overview of wet plate collodion photography and guided through creating their very own tintypes and ambrotypes. 


All chemistry and plates are included, wear clothing that can be stained.

click below to register:
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10/25/2012 2 Comments

Empty Vessels installed at Blue Print

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'Empty Vessels' was installed yesterday at Blue Print in San Diego.  We will have an opening reception on November 1st, email me if you would like to be added to the invitation list!  Details to come!
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10/24/2012 0 Comments

Simon's Robot

Here is a 4x5 tintype of my husband's creation, the distance measuring robot.  This guy rolls around on his three wheels until he smacks into a wall.  When he does, he looks left then right, measures the shortest distance between the two, calibrates for the new direction, and wheels off to the next! 
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10/23/2012 1 Comment

Astronaut!

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Captured with Calumet 4x5 with 210mm lens.  The case was restored; first painted black, then bound with a satin ribbon. The matting was newly silver leafed and new glass was cut to fit the case. 
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10/16/2012 0 Comments

My San Diego

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This 5x7 tintype was shot in camera on Harbor Island looking toward downtown San Diego.
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10/9/2012 0 Comments

I saved one wish for you.....

I saved one wish for you,
tucked away in a little book
so you could carry it with you close
and use it when you need most
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1"x1" tintype framed in a 1 3/4" x 2" wooden box finished with satin tape and a little replica door knocker.
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10/8/2012 0 Comments

Tintypes in Balboa Park

Saturday morning I woke up early with the itch to get out into the park to make some tintypes.  My loving husband was sweet to groggily drive me up to the park and help answer the questions of the many heads that popped up to ask about the type of camera we were using and 'what is a tintype?'  These two were my favorite of the morning.
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Reflections of the Botanical Garden, 2012
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Shadows in the corridor, 2012
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10/5/2012 1 Comment

Restoring an old tintype and creating a new one!

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10/4/2012 0 Comments

Restoring old paper photographs to tintypes!

The original photograph is a faded paper print, circa 1950.  It is so badly faded that there was little image to be had.  Some parts of the image I airbrushed in to create detail, especially in the faces.  I then created a newly restored slide and tintype.  This metal photograph is one of three, sent as a gift to each one of the little kids in the original.
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10/2/2012 0 Comments

Tintype film cassette button pins!

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Wow!  Just try to say that five times fast!  I made a new batch of tintype button pins, plated by recycling old film cassettes and then exposing one at a time in camera.  You can purchase one of your very own for $15 through my
web store, or you can purchase in person at the MOPA gift shop!

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10/2/2012 0 Comments

Digital Tintype

Last year I photographed Rachel and Fred's wedding.  It was a beautiful ceremony at the Alcazar garden in Balboa park.  Surrounded by family and friends, they exchanged vows and promises of a new life together.  For their first anniversary, we made a framed photograph for Fred, and we then took that same image and created a digital tintype of the special moment for Rachel.  These digital tintypes can be made from almost any image!  Click here to get started uploading your own.
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    About me:

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    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.

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