August Portraits

[sgelb]

well Im 2 hours early but hey what the hell.

my neighbor, ryan. kodakportra 160nc super d f/5.6 1/125 190mm ektar

[Allen in Montreal]

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3362/natbrown3x.jpg (http://img204.imageshack.us/i/natbrown3x.jpg/)

Canadian actress Natalie Brown.
I had to shoot her for the paper, I dragged my dad's speed graphic along that day and tried to shoot all my jobs (none due for the next day's paper). It was tougher than I thought and it gave me new respect for the gang that came before us, dragging a SG and graphmatics all day long and had to shot a job with one or two sheets.

She was great to work with.

Speed, hand held, old TXP in D-76 1:1.

[Andrew ren]

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3362/natbrown3x.jpg (http://img204.imageshack.us/i/natbrown3x.jpg/)

Canadian actress Natalie Brown.
I had to shoot her for the paper,
She was great to work with.

Speed, hand held, old TXP in D-76 1:1.

i love it!

Andrew

[Dany]

http://www.temnakomora.cz/gallery/dany_20090721231653.jpg

4x5" Delta 100, Pyro 510, Symmar-S 210

[Allen in Montreal]

i love it!

Andrew

Thank you Andrew, she really was an angel to work with.

[bsimison]

Canadian actress Natalie Brown.
I had to shoot her for the paper, I dragged my dad's speed graphic along that day and tried to shoot all my jobs (none due for the next day's paper). It was tougher than I thought and it gave me new respect for the gang that came before us, dragging a SG and graphmatics all day long and had to shot a job with one or two sheets.

She was great to work with.

Speed, hand held, old TXP in D-76 1:1.

Mighty fine work. Well done!

[chachahavana]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3343305749_7a60aa5cff_o.jpg

The renowned Canton Opera Singer Joyce Koi, she is playing mens role.
Chamonix 8x10, Fujinon 300mm f/5.6, Velvia 100

[PViapiano]

Chachahavana...

Great image, wonderful colors...and how super to have the opportunity to use an 8x10.

Was this backstage or studio?

[chachahavana]

Hi PViapiano
Thank you very much !
Yes, it was taken at backstage and the whole 'theater' is a bamboo scaffolding structure built in a week and could host 800 people.
cheers

[Mark Sawyer]

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/J.jpg

300mm Imagon on an 8x10 2D.

I hate this lens. Worthless fuzz, not worth the crappy glass it's made from. These lenses are truly an embarrassment to any camera you put them on. I'm ashamed to say I ever used one.

(oh, and if anyone knows of a 480mm Imagon for sale, please let me know...)

:rolleyes:

[Scott --]

Awesome, Mark!

Got a few new lenses to play with yesterday. This is a Rauber-Wollensak in a Solograph shutter (which is spotless and works flawlessly) on 5x7 Arista.EDU Ultra 100.

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/smpsweeps/solograph.jpg

Boogered the bellows compensation, highlights are too hot, but I'm liking the lens, anyway!

[ajsikel]

awesome image Scott !






Awesome, Mark!

Got a few new lenses to play with yesterday. This is a Rauber-Wollensak in a Solograph shutter (which is spotless and works flawlessly) on 5x7 Arista.EDU Ultra 100.

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/smpsweeps/solograph.jpg

Boogered the bellows compensation, highlights are too hot, but I'm liking the lens, anyway!

[ajsikel]

ok, recently got chance of using my Tele Xenar 240mm on graflex Crown.

[ajsikel]

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1287/bro1.jpg

[ajsikel]

Xenar 240mm on HP5+

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3885/bro4.jpg

[ajsikel]

again, as previously HP5+

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8865/broa.jpg

[Jim Galli]

Awesome, Mark!

Got a few new lenses to play with yesterday. This is a Rauber-Wollensak in a Solograph shutter (which is spotless and works flawlessly) on 5x7 Arista.EDU Ultra 100.

Boogered the bellows compensation, highlights are too hot, but I'm liking the lens, anyway!

This really is a wonderful shot!

[Joe Smigiel]

I love the Imagon image Mark.

[Nathan67]

Been way too busy in the studio with the digital moneymaking photography to post here lately, but I was having a tidy up and found this unwashed 55 neg hiding in the corner from a session earlier this year....
scanned as is with all the dried up polaroid gunk still on it plus dust that stuck to the gunk...
http://www.boudoir.no/portrett55a1.jpg

[Emil Schildt]

I have uploaded this portrait in the "alternative printing"thread, so sorry for that, but Finally I have made my self a new portrait..

Laura is a student of mine. she is a fantastic person - extreamly beautiful - pure gold in her soul..
And to top it, she is a fantastic painter! With a large, impressive production behind her....

So I made this portrait of her in bromoil - and I did it "wrongly" on purpose - to get a sense of sketch in the image. Because of her being a painter..

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000117/199-fotografi_800x600.jpg

[PViapiano]

Scott...don't change a thing! Beautiful...

Gandolfi...amazing bromoil, beautiful subject...in a word, perfect!

Thanks, guys...

[JohnGC]

Beautiful Gandolfi, absolutely beautiful.

[Lee Christopher]

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000117/199-fotografi_800x600.jpg

Oh my!

I have just been reminded why I fell in love with photography ... all over again!

THANK YOU Gandolfi!

[Kerik Kouklis]

Gandolfi, I'm not usually a fan of bromoil, but the way YOU use it, it's magic. Nice work!

[Emil Schildt]

Thanks all - it means a lot!!

I know the way I, and my girlfriend, makes it, is not the common way..

We havn't figured out how to do it with normal bromfriendly papers... - we use liquid emulsion as matrix.
It gives other types of results, but it certainly has some possibillities you don't see the "normal" way..

Thanks again.

(PS: my girlfriend is also a member in here, but I havn't been able to pursuate her to submit images yet... hopefully she will - she is very talented!)

[Henry Ambrose]

gandolfi - that's quite a photo

WOW!

[Mark Sawyer]

Lovely, Emil! I wish my monitor could do justice to an original bromoil print. The coming together of image and craft is perfect.

And Scott, the sincerity and directness of the gaze from those young eyes is powerful.

These portrait threads have become treasure troves... :)

(and thank you, Joe!)

[Frank Petronio]

These are great portraits, in spite of the funky alt techniques and crappy lenses ;-) Really they'd be good shots even if they were done with Digital Rebels and kit zoom lenses.

[eddie]

5x7 CGA (clear glass ambrotype) taken at coffer's jamboree last weekend.

[Nathan67]

I have uploaded this portrait in the "alternative printing"thread, so sorry for that, but Finally I have made my self a new portrait..

Laura is a student of mine. she is a fantastic person - extreamly beautiful - pure gold in her soul..
And to top it, she is a fantastic painter! With a large, impressive production behind her....

So I made this portrait of her in bromoil - and I did it "wrongly" on purpose - to get a sense of sketch in the image. Because of her being a painter..

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000117/199-fotografi_800x600.jpg

Absolutely wonderful!

[Scott --]

Thanks to everyone who commented on my son's portrait! I'm grateful for your input.

Now I have to get Momma to like the shot... :rolleyes:

Scott

[PViapiano]

Thanks to everyone who commented on my son's portrait! I'm grateful for your input.

Now I have to get Momma to like the shot... :rolleyes:

Scott

What's not to like? I know...Moms always want a big smile.

This is better than a smile...wonderful portrait!

In his new book, The Printed Picture, Richard Benson talks about the ubiquitous "smile" in so many photographs (wedding, celebration, etc) and the moms always wanting the smile no matter how forced...interesting.

[chachahavana]

Hi gandolfi
This image is absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing.
Have a good weekend !
cheers
ChaCha

[Emil Schildt]

another portrait experiment of Laura.

Liquid emulsion - partially bleached/re-developed and then made as a bromoil.

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000118/982-laura-igen-igen.jpg

[Dave Aharonian]

Gandolfi - keep 'em coming - stunning work!!

Here's my contribution:

Polaroid 665 neg with a 6" Darlot lens.

[frank hoerauf]

another awesome shot dave, i also have a 6 inch darlot lens, just wondering what kind of shutter did you mount it to. thanks, frank

[Jim Galli]

Haven't had anything to contribute in a while. Saturday was the culmination of the Nevada Boomtown History conference in Tonopah, NV. and many of the attendees came in their best camp attire for the evening meal and dancing. I was present with the 1880 Anthony and Scoville fitted with an early Euryscop II Portrait lens.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/BoomTownHistoryConference2009/Ekman22s.jpg
a dapper gent and elegant lady

[poco]

A couple I came across at the beach a couple weeks ago (technically not August, but eh...). The hope is to reshoot in September with the girl holding the newborn -- a sorta before/after thing, ya know.

4x5 NC 160, crappy scan.

[Pete Watkins]

Poco, I know that pregnancy is "natural" but thats put me right off me beer.
Time for bed. Nice pic though.
Best wishes,
Pete.

[VictoriaPerelet]

Few pics from earlier today.

F22 1/250
http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Rayvn/big/e6-1-4.jpg

F32 1/250
http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Rayvn/big/tmax-2-3.jpg

P2 72mm SA XL.

[poco]

Victoria,

That's pretty remarkable work.

I'm curious, what's your market? I see from your website you're a commercial photog, which makes me wonder whether this is personal work or if this genre, too, fills some kind of commercial demand.

Is an envelope pushing "...stays in Vegas" campaign about to hit us like a ton of bricks :D ?

[monkeymon]

let's keep this wide angle thing going...

yeat another self portrait, maybe someday i will learn to do this so i can shoot other people also

I was trying to get everything out of my cheap ass equipment, shot with Raptar 90mm f6.8 @ f32, quit a bit of lens and film movements where involved in this shot. Nice to see this lens actually can deliver.

I ran out of room a bit for my strobe, and got only a dim sidelight to hit my eye.. shame, it kinda was a big thing in this image.

http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/kokkinelja_snadi.jpg

[dcypher]

Gandolfi - keep 'em coming - stunning work!!

Here's my contribution:

Polaroid 665 neg with a 6" Darlot lens.

I like this one very much! :-)

[VictoriaPerelet]

Victoria,
I'm curious, what's your market?

Commercial work went digital when century turned over, nobody needs or cares about film too much for commercial work:) Nowdays I do LF film only for editorial/personal work. Pics get published here and there and I do have constant editorial demand, but by no measure there is any "commercial demand" or any notion of "market" per se.

[MenacingTourist]

Few pics from earlier today.

F22 1/250
http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Rayvn/big/e6-1-4.jpg

P2 72mm SA XL.

Love the freaky stretched head on this one.

[unrealalex]

http://www.ambrotype.ru/wet-plate-collodion/portraits/images/ambro-finland002.jpg (http://ambrotype.ru/index_en.html)

Once In The North (Ambrotype, 18x24cm)

[R Mann]

My granddaughter was willing to sit for a few minutes while I "fiddled" with my "toy." After I shot the picture she ran to the ground glass to see the result (a product of the digital age) - after explaining how it would be a while until it was done she went on to other things. I haven't tried too many times to use large format with the family, but she is happy with the results and said she will do it again. It was on HP5 using a 5x7 Canham with a 240mm - open shade at 1/4 second around f8.

[Miguel Coquis]

Great shot. Afew more years in this young lady will appreciate grandpa' work !!!
Thanks for posting this pic,
Miguel

[Miguel Coquis]

Finishing restoring the RB auto graflex 3x4 with a 4x5 back, Dallmeyer Press f:3,5 and all the stuff one have to do until all this start to work ...
Granddaughter ask if it was ready...
An we make a first portrait, just to see if every thing works well.
I think it works find.
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/RB%20auto%20graflex%204x5/Ilona-001.jpg

[mandoman7]

Very nice, Miguel. Its great that your daughter wants to participate.

[Miguel Coquis]

Thanks John for your comment, the story continues with the little one that ask to be pictured too... "moi aussi, grandpa'"
RB auto graflex are nice cameras for portrait especially if you can mount fast lenses !!!
more perhaps later,
have a nice WE
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/RB%20auto%20graflex%204x5/Selma-0012.jpg

[Miguel Coquis]

sewing..., or leaning to
available light, t:1/10 f:4,5 dev +1 1/2
RB graflex, tmax 100, cooke aviar etc, etc.
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/RB%20auto%20graflex%204x5/Ilona-003.jpg

[stehei]

hermagis petzval on 8*10 inch

[Jim Galli]

Miguel and Stephan these inspire me. What beautiful work!

[Ben Syverson]

hermagis petzval on 8*10 inch
This is fantastic!

[BradS]

Thanks John for your comment, the story continues with the little one that ask to be pictured too... "moi aussi, grandpa'"
RB auto graflex are nice cameras for portrait especially if you can mount fast lenses !!!
more perhaps later,
have a nice WE
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/RB%20auto%20graflex%204x5/Selma-0012.jpg

MIguel,

All of the portraits you've show are good but....This is marvelous! What a treasure.

[stehei]

thanks guys, didnt post for a while, all copyrighted material,
so happy to see the positive reactions!

this is a portrait in downe, kent UK, of the descendants of Charles
Darwin in front of the Down-House. . I was asked to do their portrait
with a lens that could have been used to photograph darwin himself,
so the hermagis was an obvious choice.

Wonderful place to be, nice people,
obviously the hermagis does not cover 8*10 ;)

[stehei]

btw, the print is just unbelievable sharp and creamy!

[Pete Watkins]

Sthei,
The people are incredibly sharp and the vingnetting really makes the picture.
Miguel, those are just beautiful.
Best wishes,
Pete.

[dcypher]

hermagis petzval on 8*10 inch

Amazing... :cool:

[ljb0904]

My first 4x5 portrait. Ilford FP4, Ilfosol S (still new to B+W developing), Fuji 180 or 240...can't remember
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs143.snc1/5293_123423451251_773936251_2249475_4004037_n.jpg

[Jim Cole]

My first 4x5 portrait. Ilford FP4, Ilfosol S (still new to B+W developing), Fuji 180 or 240...can't remember
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs143.snc1/5293_123423451251_773936251_2249475_4004037_n.jpg

Nice start!

[William McEwen]

My first 4x5 portrait. Ilford FP4, Ilfosol S (still new to B+W developing), Fuji 180 or 240...can't remember
[IMG]

Definitely a keeper. Congratulations! Nice job!

[stehei]

one more hermagis image on 8*10 inch

[monkeymon]

http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/kivieikka2_snadi.jpg

4x5 fomapan 200 / d76 1+1 / older symmar 135mm f5.6 @ f22

[starvingjack]

Developed 4X5 for the first time ever, and man, was i blown away!

Polaroid 110B modded
Shanghai 100
Rodinal 1:50

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l135/yoohoobama/4X5001s-1.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l135/yoohoobama/4X5002s-1.jpg

[Armin Seeholzer]

Laurent Baig yours is a masterpiece, hot lady hot shoot!

Cheers Armin

[jb7]

Great stuff-


I took this yesterday, on my diy point and shoot camera-
More of a usability test in the field than anything else...

65mm Super Angulon, 4x5 Fomapan 200-

Gunn's Camera Shop in Dublin-
All the Gunn Girls...


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/3857209698_53098ebb92_o.jpg

[Philippe Grunchec]

jb7, great shot! I almost exclusively use Foma 200: which developer did you use? You got a great tonal scale!

[jb7]

Thanks Philippe-

HC110, dil. H (ish) around 10 mins at 22C.

I'm filling a Nikor Tank, and it's taking 30 seconds on the way in, slightly less on the way out, so it's not very exact...

[Imaginara]

Woot. i think (hope) this qualifies as a portrait :D Shot on Fomapan 100 with my trusty Horseman 4x5 =)

http://www.imaginara.se/4x5BWScan1-2.jpg

[jb7]

It certainly does-
beautiful girl...

[dcypher]

wooow.... You knocked me off my feet with this one...

[bluenote]

http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/45_42.jpg

My wife Vera. SpeedGraphic, Schneider Xenar 135mm, Kodak Tri-X 320, ID11,
polarized filter, 1/60@f11, front tilt.

[xmishx]

Imaginara,

Beautiful image.

T

[lenser]

Imaginara,

Now I absolutely believe in the elves of middle earth. Stunning image!!!!!

Congratulations!

Tim

[Vick Vickery]

Imaginara, that is lovely high-key work!

[Jeremy Moore]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3859984124_56e56fc9a6.jpg

11x14, 18" verito.

[Armin Seeholzer]

Imaginara very nice shoot which lens did you use?

Cheers Armin

[MIke Sherck]

Imaginara, not to take anything away from the absolutely stunning portrait, can you describe the lighting you used? I've always wondered whether my conjectures were accurate or not.

Mike

[Ben Syverson]

Looks like a strobe firing through a giant silk (or even gianter softbox) as a backdrop, with the subject lighting coming mostly from the light wrapping around and bouncing back.

?

[Imaginara]

All: thank you very much for the high praise. I am very new to large format photography but i absolutely love it. It was shot on a Horseman L45 with a Tokinon 135mm lens that i got with another old 4x5 Burke & James.

Bensyverson. That is absolutely spot on. Its a silk-like material, actually a white fabric used as inner-curtain when they make showercurtains. Dirt cheap and have similar optical qualities to the front cloth in a softbox. hint here for those who want to make their own modifiers ;D It was hung down from a background stand.

Behind it are actually an old Pro-2 unit with 2 heads firing at 600Ws which totally blows out the fabric. I then used a lastolite reflektor screen (about a meter diameter, silver) to bounce back light to her face or it would have been a bit too dark.

Supersimple to set up but creates a lovely angelic light.

[monkeymon]

another one of these

http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/kivieikka41_snadi.jpg

[Ben Syverson]

Supersimple to set up but creates a lovely angelic light.
Well, you may be new to LF, but it certainly seems to suit you!

I assisted a beauty shoot on Thursday, and we wound up adapting your technique for one of our setups. Coupled with a small softbox overhead to add a little contrast back in, it gave us a gorgeous natural look. So thanks for the dose of inspiration!

[jp]

another one of these

http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/kivieikka41_snadi.jpg

For some reason I like this. Perhaps the rock implies something about the portrait subject. (and that could be a variety of things up to interpretation.)

There's a lot more potential variety you could have here. I'd have the subject wear all black, all white (perhaps a tee shirt), staring down the camera, backed up and leaning relaxed against the rock with arms folded, vertical format standing on the rock, etc...

[bluenote]

http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/1318_30.jpg

My dog Fido. I hope this IS a portrait. Shen Hao 5x7, Fomapan 100, ID11, Ilex 365mm, 1/50@f11

[Allen in Montreal]

My daughters both ask that I tell you they love this picture! :)



http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/1318_30.jpg

My dog Fido. I hope this IS a portrait. Shen Hao 5x7, Fomapan 100, ID11, Ilex 365mm, 1/50@f11

[goamules]

This model made every shot easy today. And wetplate isn't easy!
Halfplate collodion with Darlot petzval.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2534/3872246897_22f988498e.jpg



Garrett
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsphotos/

[SamReeves]

http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/1318_30.jpg

My dog Fido. I hope this IS a portrait. Shen Hao 5x7, Fomapan 100, ID11, Ilex 365mm, 1/50@f11

This is probably the best one yet. :D

[nelsonfotodotcom]

Nude, self-portrait: the artist at age 42 yrs, 4 days.

Toyo View 45F, 90mm Optar, on Fujifilm FP-100B, toned in Lightroom.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2578/3876809924_ce9d943cd6_o.jpg

[nelsonfotodotcom]

One more sketch/idea from this evening. Key moves overhead; SB right, SB left for fill.

Burnt Offering

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3876626253_3707e5c5b3_o.jpg