About 2 years ago, one of my colleagues saw some of my wet plates and wondered if I could do a portrait of his horse. Wet plate portrait of a horse? I laughed it off bit kept thinking. This what I did:
- I shot a digital image of the horse and saved it on a jump drive.
- I have a 42" LG 120 Hz TV in the studio that I screened the image on.
- I placed the TV with the image of the horse on it in front of my camera with my 16" Tessar lens and focussed the image on the GG.
- I prepared a 12" x 12" plate and captured this image:
(bad scan; scan it in 2 parts and tried to stitch it!)
It came out so well, they have it hanging in their home!
So I tried a second portrait but this time on 11x 14 photo paper using a Verito.
I developed the photo paper and contact-printed it on Ilford 300 paper.
I thought of writing it up but never can make the time. Beside I haven't used that method much lately.
So get an LCD or LED screen with as much brightness as possible. The size will depend on how big the negatives should be. You can go wrong with a 42".
Any lens will do. You can meter the brightness of the screen to give you an approximate ballpark for exposure.
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