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RE: Winston's Digital Wet Plate Photography :: THE EYES HAVE IT
Wetplate photos have some mystery atmosphere. Like half work is already done with background effect that gives technique itself. Nice work @winstonwolfe.
It's funny you say that because I've got a particular lens in mind to buy that would lend to the authentic appearance. It's a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 Art lens. Normally you don't want a lens that produces a vignette in-camera but that's exactly what this lens does when you put it on a full-frame body. The wide angle of the 30mm + the narrow depth of field produced by the f/1.4 aperture + the vignette it produces all help with that look.
Well it's much easier choice than to do real wet plates @winstonwolfe. I have a friend who is having real vintage camera and he is making all those old techniques on plates with chemicals..I call him ''alchemist'' :)