Untitled still life |
The photo on the left surprised me very much. To help the delicate orchid stand out, I had set it on a vivid blue background. The white on blue jumped at me when I was setting up my shot. Little did I know that wet-plate collodion is very sensitive to the blue range of the light spectrum, rendering the background in the final image almost as white as the flower itself. On the other hand collodion has very little sensitivity to red hues, rendering the tomatoes in the previous untitled still life completely black...
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