What I find strange with wet plate is that it doesn't seem to make that much difference between skin color Well, it probably would render my pasty white skin... pasty white but apart from that, it's very inclusive.
I get it, and I like them, but tintype portraits are almost mainstream now? Nothing wrong with that but I'm starting to find it a bit samey.
These last two comments are very interesting. A good portrait is a good portrait and that's what I think we have here...in fact a collection of them. As styles go I don't think I'll ever get tired of tintypes...in much the same way as I'll never get tired of colour photos, or black and white ones, or platinum prints, or POP images, or cross-processed images - and so on.