Magical Wet plate Portrait
- May 1, 2018
- 1 min read
Wet Plate Collodion Photography was considered in the 19's century as alchemy.
Watch how the "Magical Wet plate Portrait" was made, step by step, in this video:
The Setup
It's a Classic Butterfly Lighting Setup as can be seen in the video above.
In this portrait I used one Octa CFL light bank above the model's head and one reflector beneath the models chin.
Around her head there were paper butterfly's hanged from above on fishing strings. Some of them got tangled in her hair during the shooting and we had to make this picture several times in order to get the right face expression with the butterfly's position as well.
Here's the final result
Exposure time was 6 Sec, The lens was a Petzval lens:Wollensack Vesta 14" F5, Svedovsky 8X10 Camera, 8X10 clear Glass Ambrotype.
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