How was this photo taken?

This should be the "undressing" shot by photographer Neil Maurines Rowe.

The processing method is very clever, which can be generally called "secondary frontal contact photography", including five stages: photographing, developing, photographing, photographing and photographing:

1. Take a portrait. People are photographed with negative film in front of a white background. After obtaining a portrait negative, use it to enlarge a color photo and use the negative to enlarge a transparent positive.

2. Make a wood shape like an apple peel. According to the head in the color photo, make a long wooden model with spiral skin. The wooden model has a clear outline of the female model's face, with the outer surface painted white and the inner surface painted black.

3. Match the images. Put the wooden model in front of the black cardboard background, and fix the transparent positive film made in 1 stage on the back of the camera, then the camera must be a 4*5 or 8* 10 camera. In the viewfinder, aim the figure outline of transparent film at the wooden model, adjust the position and focal length accurately, and then make contact exposure through the shielding system inside the camera, and shoot an apple-skin image on the brand-new positive film in the cassette. Because the front of the positive film is blocked by the transparent film of the portrait, it records the white skin image of the wooden model, while Lippi of the wooden model is black and can't reflect light, so the positive film is dark and no one stays.

Step 4 add blue light. After the third step, the camera and the wooden model can't move. Remove the transparent positive film in front of the cassette. The newly exposed positive film is still on the camera. Draw a stripped silhouette on the previous black cardboard, hollow it out with a knife, and then put it back behind the stripped wood, and blue the wood model under the backlight. At this time, turn off other light sources at the scene, leaving only blue light, so that the positive film can be exposed again, leaving blue light on the positive film.

5. Add a cloud background. After step 4, the background is still empty. Now, put a white plastic board behind the wooden model, stick the silhouette dug in the fourth step on the plastic board and align it accurately, remove the wooden model, and use the slide projector to hit the cloud picture on the plastic board. Because there is black paper in front of the negative, it is not sensitive to clouds. Open the camera shutter and expose the positive film for the third time. Finally, the color positive film as shown in the figure is obtained.

You have to admire the whimsy of foreigners.