Thursday, March 15th, 2018
I used two cameras and lots of light for this macro shot
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Ein Macro auf Kollodium-Nassplatte zu fotografieren, hat mich schon seit längerer Zeit beschäftigt. Da langsam der Frühling vor der Tür steht, gibt es schon Schneeglöckchen in meinem Garten. Genau dieses kleine Gewächs habe ich mir vor meine Holzkamera gestellt.
Damit der Hintergrund interessanter wird, habe ich dafür zerknüllte Alufolie ausgewählt. Diese vielen Reflexionen ergeben einen wunderschönen Bokeh-Hintergrund. Damit ich das Schneeglöckchen füllend auf die 18x24cm Platte bekomme, habe ich einfach zwei Kameras miteinander verbunden. Somit bekomme ich genug „Auszug“ um diesen Vergrößerungsmaßstab zu bekommen.
Dabei ist natürlich auch noch zu bedenken, je weiter die Platte vom Objektiv entfernt ist, desto mehr Licht wird benötigt. In meinem Fall löste ich meine Blitze mit 7000W zwei mal aus.(Die Platten haben eine ASA Empfindlichkeit von ca. 0,5)
Ein Vergleich, damit die Dimensionen hier ein wenig besser zur Geltung kommen.
Diese Grafik zeigt die aktuelle Platte und die Platte vom Steampunk Shooting im Vergleich zu einem Vollformatsensor einer modernen DSLR.
Und hier nochmal mit dem Bild als overlay:
Ich hoffe, mit diesen Grafiken ist der Vergrößerungsmaßstab besser zu verstehen.
Eine weitere interessante Geschichte ist die Darstellung der Grüntöne auf der Platte. Ich erwartete mir, dass die grünen Teile der Pflanze heller auf der Platte erscheinen. Aber das Ergebnis war fast schwarz. Bedeutet also, dass diese Teile wenig des blauen Lichtspektrums reflektieren.
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English Version
Wouldn’t it be awesome to do a macro shot on a wet plate camera? This was what I was thinking for some time. Spring is slowly on it’s way and snowdrops are blooming in my garden. That was how I found my subject for the shooting. For the background I grumbled up some aluminum foil to get nice out of focus highlights. Short, I created a nice Bokeh with that. To get the snowdrop on a full 18x24cm plate I had to extend my wooden camera to the maximum and add my second camera full extended to my first cameras backside. With that I got enough distance to get the magnification I wanted.
You have to consider that, the farer you are away from the lens with the plate, the more light you need. That was the reason I fired twice with 7000 Watt on the poor little flower 🙂
The ISO sensitivity of the plates is around 0.5.
I want to show you a comparison, so you get an idea what it means to magnify an image to that plate size. It’s like you have a giant sensor:
Here the same again with the wet plate as an overlay
The next interesting thing is the outcome of the green color shades on the plate. They came out pretty dark. That means that they don’t reflect much UV light.
This plate is here for sale. This is a one out of two -so only one plate to buy – I keep the other one 🙂
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Stativ, Hensel Tria 6000 Generator, EH Pro 6000 Blitzkopf, Hensel Grand,Hensel Integra 1000 Plus, 12″ Reflector EH, Grid for that
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March 15th, 2018 at 19:53
Large format macro: a crazy wet plate photography experiment | PictoPro said:
[…] documented the whole experiment on his blog, and shares a behind-the-scenes ‘Making Of’ look at the shoot in the video above. His […]
March 15th, 2018 at 19:59
Large format macro: a crazy wet plate photography experiment said:
[…] documented the whole experiment on his blog, and shares a behind-the-scenes ‘Making Of’ look at the shoot in the video above. His […]
March 24th, 2018 at 14:04
Martin Currie said:
Wow, beautiful snowdrop plate. You asked for further challenges… Do you think you could get a large format wet plate of a live insect?
Is there any way to increase the sensitivity of your chemistry so you could make it with a single flash pop?
March 26th, 2018 at 16:25
Markus said:
Hey Martin,
thanks a lot for your question!!!!
A moving insect is sadly out of question, because of the focusing and the time in between focusing and shooting the plate (about 5 minutes)
I only could lock it up in a very tiny glass bottle or something like that – but I don’t like to do that, even with a fly.
I could try it with a dead bug or something, that I find in my garden…. would be an interesting try
Film would make that easier. But what I wanted to do for a long time, is to shoot on direct positive paper. This has Iso 3 or even more 🙂
April 19th, 2018 at 14:07
This is what it's like to shoot ultra large format wet plate macro in a cherry blossom tree - DIY Photography said:
[…] the snowdrop shoot what so much fun, I wanted to do something like that again. After I saw the cherry blossoms on my […]
July 21st, 2020 at 14:19
Helen Thomson said:
Hi Markus, Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I’m very new to the wet plate genre and I’m curious as to why you didn’t shoot the snowdrop in daylight? I understand there would have to be no wind during the long exposure and that the exposure time would still be longer than ‘normal’ due to the 2 cameras. I know there must be a logical reason but I don’t know enough yet to work it out. Thank you so much, Helen
October 23rd, 2020 at 14:03
Markus said:
Sorry for the late answer, just saw it now. I wanted to have total control of light. It would have been very difficult to expose the foil in the background. You see it in the video, that I had to cover it with the paper.