Monday, June 10, 2024

Example ~ Sony "Wet Plate Collodion" Picture Profile recipe

Here's a recipe that tries to emulate wet-plate collodion spectral response and soft early print tonalities.

Sony Wet Plate Collodion Picture Profile recipe

 

Black and White Early Negative and Print Techniques recipe ~

Sony "Wet Plate Collodion" (hand rolled)

Picture Profile -


Black level: -15
Gamma: Cine2 <- which opens the shadows a bit more than Movie I used in the black and white recipes
Black Gamma: Middle 0
Knee: Auto, Max Point 100%, Sensitivity High <- to retain tone in the highlights
Color Mode: Black and White
Saturation: 0
Colour Phase: 0
Colour Dept: R+7, G-3, B-7, C , M 0, Y+7 <- blue filter effect where "+" makes a color darker and "-" makes a color lighter
Detail: Level 0

Additional Camera Settings -
 

variable EV <- depending on scene brightness, using the EVF to confirm overall brightness

AWB

Taking this a small step further, I wanted to confirm that I could vignette the edges and tone the image outside the camera on a computer and retain the proper overall tonalities.  As we can see, the blue filter is very harsh on old skin.

 

Sony Wet Plate Collodion Picture Profile recipe

 

---------------- Additional Information ---------------

Sony Picture Profile Help Guide - essential for understanding this Sony in-camera image processing tool

"Film Emulation" recipes - found on Reddit (which I don't care for, but this was the only place I've found these) 

"Kodak Portra 400 film emulation" recipe - Gered Hickey provides clear explanations for the choices made in creating this Picture Profile

"Tri-X film emulation" - Andrea Pizzini's AI generated B&W recipe (I prefer my version)

 #SonyPictureProfiles #FilmEmulations

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