Live wet-plate wedding portraits
A portable wet-plate studio makes guests’ portraits by hand.
Taos Tintype / Nicole Katzman
Nicole Katzman’s Taos Tintype offers both onsite couple portraits and a live reception setup that makes individual metal-plate images through wet-plate collodion photography. The operator also accepts private dinners and parties, and can recreate an existing meaningful photograph as a tintype by commission.
Current location note / listed area: Taos, New Mexico; onsite event routing by inquiry
Handmade chemical photography has a slower throughput than a digital booth. Confirm guest capacity, exposure and strobe requirements, suitable processing area, travel, varnishing and final delivery. No permanent-lifetime guarantee is adopted. Only the current Taos studio establishes state coverage; willingness to travel beyond New Mexico is not mapped to other states.
Public-source research · 2026-10-30 · Not vendor-confirmed or independently vetted.
Original research sources
- https://www.taostintype.com/weddings
- https://www.taostintype.com/private-events
- https://www.taostintype.com/faqs
- https://www.taostintype.com/studiotintypesession
- https://www.taostintype.com/our-story
Documented state connections
Geographic evidence is retained historical research, not current service availability.
- New Mexico · based
Current owned studio session page explicitly locates private studio in Taos, New Mexico; current wedding page offers onsite wet-plate portraits.