January Portraits [Archive] - Large Format Photography Forum

xmishx

2-Jan-2010, 01:34

And with this new decade, I'm finally back on track to be shooting with my 4x5 and having a nice film developer to work with. It has been awhile since I've posted, but I hope to be more of a regular here in the forums...

http://www.artistsimageresource.net/blog/2010/2010-01-02tim.jpg

Joe Smigiel

2-Jan-2010, 07:49

Nice start to the decade.

nray

2-Jan-2010, 13:10

Polaroid Type 54.
1/4s@5.6 using Schneider 210mm

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o131/nray53/scan216.jpg

Joe Smigiel

2-Jan-2010, 19:15

http://my.net-link.net/~jsmigiel/images/technical/collodion/Jen_BGA_010210.jpg
"Portrait of antijenx (http://www.flickr.com/photos/antijenx/)"

or

"Our Sister of the Darkcloth" :rolleyes:

half-plate ambrotype on black glass

http://my.net-link.net/~jsmigiel/images/technical/collodion/doll_JenX_scan_crop.jpg
"antijenx (http://www.flickr.com/photos/antijenx/)" with doll"

slight crop from half-plate melainotype on enameled aluminum

ImSoNegative

2-Jan-2010, 20:52

great portraits, i hope i have one to contribute in a day or two

xmishx

3-Jan-2010, 16:10

Another sheet processed recently, shot in the summer of 2009...

http://www.artistsimageresource.net/blog/2010/2010-01-03sere.jpg

I'm not sure what happened to the development of this sheet, but I still like it...

Tri Tran

4-Jan-2010, 22:14

A Hermagis 10 inches at wide open.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3623/hermagis.jpg (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/hermagis.jpg/)

MIke Sherck

5-Jan-2010, 08:35

A Hermagis 10 inches at wide open.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3623/hermagis.jpg (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/hermagis.jpg/)

There's so much personality in her face, and the "swirly" just directs my eye there and sort of frames it with liquid movement. It's like she's the calm at the center of the storm. Marvelous!

Mike

Hugo Zhang

5-Jan-2010, 22:55

Tri,

It's a beautiful portrait! I love the look of the lens too. :)

Hugo

Tri Tran

7-Jan-2010, 19:18

I took this picture today as the same location of the picture above with the Wollensak Versar Portrait 15 inches . The lens is quite small , light, compact and easily mounted on 11x14 Rochester Carlton Lens board.Let me know what you think and thanks for checking.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7691/versar.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/versar.jpg/)http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/versar.jpg/1/w490.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img31/versar.jpg/1/)

Hugo, Thanks for the comment.

Rick Olson

7-Jan-2010, 19:39

Hello Tri,

Great images! Looks like that patio table set is a well-used prop.

Hello Hugo!!

Rick

Tri Tran

7-Jan-2010, 20:04

Hello Tri,

Great images! Looks like that patio table set is a well-used prop.

Hello Hugo!!

Rick

Hi Rick,
Glad to see you here. You moved ? Wish you the best for 2010. Thanks for the compliments.

Rick Olson

7-Jan-2010, 20:25

Hello Tri,

Yup ... living in Colorado now. Giving my 8 x 20 a workout. It's a bit colder here than Huntington Beach where we moved from, but enjoying the lack of people! So easy to get around. That 405 can be a parking lot at times.

Happy New Year!!

Rick

archer

8-Jan-2010, 05:14

My favorite, long suffering test subject. G Claron 270mm wide open f9, Efke 50 1/30sec. The lens is too sharp even wide open so I printed this with diffusion.

Monty McCutchen

8-Jan-2010, 12:10

Tri,

My only wish is that you posted your fabulous work more often.

Beautiful

Monty

A Hermagis 10 inches at wide open.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3623/hermagis.jpg (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/hermagis.jpg/)

Tri Tran

8-Jan-2010, 20:22

Tri,

My only wish is that you posted your fabulous work more often.

Beautiful

Monty

Hi Monty,
Thanks for the the kind words. I will try to post more often when time permitted. Have a happy shooting in year 2010..and don't forget to show us your new works.

goamules

9-Jan-2010, 17:32

The daughter looks kinda like Laura Ingalls, eh? 1855 Voigtlander Petzval, half plate collodion, 2 secs.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4260240465_b0e47b12f4_o.png

Garrett

Mark Sawyer

9-Jan-2010, 18:48

Beautiful, Garrett!

Jim Galli

9-Jan-2010, 18:49

Beautiful, Garrett!

Mark beat me. What he said. ;)

goamules

9-Jan-2010, 19:00

That's both. The light was really looking good and the collodion gremlins left me alone. Oh, I did a glass negative that looked awesome, but I tore the collodion when developing.

Allen in Montreal

9-Jan-2010, 22:08

The daughter looks kinda like Laura Ingalls, eh? 1855 Voigtlander Petzval, half plate collodion, 2 secs.

Garrett

Very nice! :)

Allen in Montreal

9-Jan-2010, 22:10

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/261/vickyeyeswhitewall12cro.jpg

Fuji 400T
Sinar F2
HP5 in D 76 1:1 (cropped a little)
I did not foresee the tip of her nose being so hot, bothers me a bit.
(quick dry scan, it prints beautifully on Seagull #3)

fuegocito

9-Jan-2010, 22:24

fuegocito

9-Jan-2010, 22:48

Here is one made with a Razzle w/135mm Dagor,

Ken Lee

10-Jan-2010, 08:18

Excellent !

unkgowa

10-Jan-2010, 09:10

Fuegocito, really nice expression and tones..

Allen in Montreal

10-Jan-2010, 12:16

Nice one Allen, I really like the seeming looseness of smaller format shooting style in LF:)

Rob

Here is one made with a Razzle w/135mm Dagor,

Thank you kind sir! :)
I like shooting people with the 400T, and even more so with the 6x9 roll back.

The jeep frame looks very nice, the tones, the way the distant buildings are rendered, a beauty. The Razzle must be great fun in the streets.

Frank Petronio

10-Jan-2010, 16:01

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs136.snc3/18376_420506705645_843525645_10637432_4660275_n.jpg

Frank Petronio

11-Jan-2010, 09:55

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs156.snc3/18376_421746860645_843525645_10650776_7968362_n.jpg

fuegocito

11-Jan-2010, 11:01

Fuegocito, really nice expression and tones..

Thanks...

Rob

here's one more...the "problem" of happy snappy cam on steroid shooting people is that one can go through film rather quickly, processing batch after batch gets to be tiresome fast...:-)

one of Papa Gene going after flowers

fuegocito

11-Jan-2010, 11:08

A couple more...:)

Rob

bsimison

11-Jan-2010, 12:58

bobwysiwyg

11-Jan-2010, 13:13

Great shot, brought a smile to my face just looking at it. :)

nray

11-Jan-2010, 13:37

Ken Lee

11-Jan-2010, 14:00

Fuegocito, just keep shootin' and cookin'.

When the elements come together, things really work nicely ! The family portrait is a jewel.

Unless I'm mistaken, that Dagor is a gem too.

Robert Fisher

11-Jan-2010, 14:10

My wife is coming off of maternity leave, so I'm spending more time at home with the new boy. This is Connor, taken just a few days ago with a Crown Graphic 4x5 and 135mm Optar on Kodak TMY2.

http://clients.brettsimison.com/external/BJS-20100108_4x5_008_8x10-Print.jpg.

Brett, Connor's smile is worth a million bucks. Keep that little guy and your camera busy shooting and keep posting!

Thanks for posting!!

fuegocito

11-Jan-2010, 14:59

Fuegocito, just keep shootin' and cookin'.

When the elements come together, things really work nicely ! The family portrait is a jewel.

Unless I'm mistaken, that Dagor is a gem too.

Thanks Cousin Ken;) ;) can't complaint about when the universe aligns...just wish I can change film fast enough in those instants:)

we still have to get together one of these days...some show and tell maybe.

A couple from car show in Holyoke

Robert

gene LaFord

11-Jan-2010, 19:25

Robert... the three cops are great!! :D I don't remember the guy with the snake though.

gene

jvuokko

12-Jan-2010, 12:38

My son, Niko.
Symmar 5.6/210 @ f8 and lot of bellows extension :D
Adox CHS 100 Art 4x5

http://jukkavuokko.com/linkatut/lf/45_2010-01-03-1%20niko%20rajaus%20web.jpg

MIke Sherck

12-Jan-2010, 13:17

Niko's holding up four fingers. He probably thinks you should have shot that at f/4. Or maybe he just wanted to trip the shutter himself. Kids these days...

;)

Mike

12-Jan-2010, 15:21

Those bumby seats are great for holding the baby in the plane of focus!

Mark Sawyer

12-Jan-2010, 21:45

With apologies, as I cross-posted these in the Velostigmat thread...

A former student dropped by last week, and you know the rules: "you can always come visit, but you gotta sit for a portrait..." I had one 8x10 filmholder loaded, and a 12-inch Velostigmat on the old Century 4 studio camera, sooo...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/danaka1.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/danaka2-1.jpg

D. Bryant

12-Jan-2010, 22:09

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs156.snc3/18376_421746860645_843525645_10650776_7968362_n.jpg

This girl looks so cold it makes my knees ache.:)

Don Bryant

Tri Tran

12-Jan-2010, 22:19

Mark Sawyer

12-Jan-2010, 23:49

Mark,
These are perfect! Is it wide open and what soft focus number did you dialed in? Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! Yes, these were made wide open (at f/4.5), a temptation I can't seem to resist lately. (I can resist anything but temptation.)

These were five full rotations out. As the limiting screw (since removed) normally stops the rotation at one rotation valued at "5", I call this setting 5x5, or 25. The max is 45 (where the front cell falls out), so I hold myself to 40 for safety's sake.

A curious experiment would be to find an extension to make it overly soft, but bring it back down to a reasonable level by shutting down the aperture. Perhaps one could get softness andf depth of field that way. Perhaps I'll find the time one day...

bsimison

13-Jan-2010, 06:32

Those bumby seats are great for holding the baby in the plane of focus!

Don't I know it. He's not mobile yet, but he's making efforts to jump out of my lap all the time. Once he's on two legs, I'm definitely going to have to switch to something that shoots a little faster.

William McEwen

13-Jan-2010, 08:40

Frank, I like your outside jeez I'm freezing portraits.

When I've photographed people outside under similar conditions, I always tried to make them look like they weren't freezing.

You did it right.

Jim Galli

13-Jan-2010, 08:55

You're surely making that Velo sing Mark. Now, does that 4A have a rotating back, or is the whole camera sitting in a rocking cradle, or did you actually place the young lady at the angle photographed. Curious because it adds such a Hollywood glamour flavor.

Thank you! Yes, these were made wide open (at f/4.5), a temptation I can't seem to resist lately. (I can resist anything but temptation.)

These were five full rotations out. As the limiting screw (since removed) normally stops the rotation at one rotation valued at "5", I call this setting 5x5, or 25. The max is 45 (where the front cell falls out), so I hold myself to 40 for safety's sake.

A curious experiment would be to find an extension to make it overly soft, but bring it back down to a reasonable level by shutting down the aperture. Perhaps one could get softness andf depth of field that way. Perhaps I'll find the time one day...

Tri Tran

13-Jan-2010, 10:39

Mark,
These are perfect! Is it wide open and what soft focus number did you dialed in? Thanks for sharing.

Mark,
I just saw your post on the other page and thanks so much for the very informative threat , the beauties of the Velos II in your hands . I will will take it out and try it and definitely post the picture here soon. Thanks again.

Mark Sawyer

13-Jan-2010, 11:42

You're surely making that Velo sing Mark. Now, does that 4A have a rotating back, or is the whole camera sitting in a rocking cradle, or did you actually place the young lady at the angle photographed. Curious because it adds such a Hollywood glamour flavor.

Thanks, Jim! No rotating back on the 4A, I'm afraid, though I have been known to shove a couple of thick books under one side of the camera bed. I may consider making a simple removeable side-tilting bed this summer; it would be an easy project.

I do know that angled effect you speak of; an old photographer I know, (jeez, even older than us!) calls it the "Hollywood Tilt". I don't know if that was a common term, but it really fits the look. In this case, I just had her leaning into the corner of an old wingback chair. I've discovered it gives a nice angle and helps hold the head still between focusing and exposure.

MichaelT

13-Jan-2010, 14:09

Hi, after a Break, keep on Photographing and Posting ;-) happy new year!
all 5X7 APX100 / FOMA400 Plaubel with Symmar-S210/5,6

@all thanks for inspiration!

P.S: dont know how to post the Pics ... in the 5X7 thread or here ... i post it here
5X7 rocks!

regards Michael

Mark Sawyer

13-Jan-2010, 15:35

Mark,
I just saw your post on the other page and thanks so much for the very informative threat , the beauties of the Velos II in your hands . I will will take it out and try it and definitely post the picture here soon. Thanks again.

You're most welcome, and thank you for the kind comments! I've learned so much here, it's good to give something back.

EdWorkman

13-Jan-2010, 17:42

Michael- I like them- a lot
regards
Ed

Frank Petronio

13-Jan-2010, 22:30

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/jessica_45usa_001.jpg

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/britt_snow_001.jpg

monkeymon

14-Jan-2010, 07:20

William McEwen

14-Jan-2010, 08:21

On the color picture, Frank, it's interesting how the image appears through the film notches.... ?

Frank Petronio

14-Jan-2010, 09:02

opps!

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/britt_snow_001.jpg

Robert Hughes

14-Jan-2010, 11:52

Another winner in the "Cold Grrlz" series...:D

sly

14-Jan-2010, 14:59

Mom and Baby.
Korona 8x10, FP4+, Na2 print on Fabriano Artistico.
I'll be trying other treatments with this neg, but the family and I are both pleased with this high key attempt.

Monty McCutchen

14-Jan-2010, 18:29

Mom and Baby.
Korona 8x10, FP4+, Na2 print on Fabriano Artistico.
I'll be trying other treatments with this neg, but the family and I are both pleased with this high key attempt.

Everyone should be Lillian,

another wonderful shot,

monty

ConnorR

14-Jan-2010, 20:58

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4274965385_155b068aa9.jpg

Sinar F 4x5. Arista EDU Ultra 100 pushed to 200. Developed in D-76 1+1.

Armin Seeholzer

15-Jan-2010, 04:37

Mom and Baby.
Korona 8x10, FP4+, Na2 print on Fabriano Artistico.
I'll be trying other treatments with this neg, but the family and I are both pleased with this high key attempt.

This is just wonderfull crats Armin

Ash

15-Jan-2010, 05:48

Connor!! I'm so jealous of that board!! LongboardLarry stuff is really expensive to ship to the UK!

BetterSense

15-Jan-2010, 08:11

Do you even have hills in the UK? I used to longboard a lot but then I moved from the hilly midwest to flat Texas.

Pete Watkins

15-Jan-2010, 08:34

Bettersense,
We've even got mountains, real mountains! The best one's gotta be in Wales where you can catch a steam train to the top and visit the cafe for a drink to recover from the journey.
Pete.

Ash

15-Jan-2010, 08:40

Yea we got a few hills around. There's a peak district in Sheffield, and Reading and Bristol are full of lil spots to skate, but in my hometown I use boarding for commuting and exercise instead of adrenaline rush downhill.

William McEwen

15-Jan-2010, 10:54

Good fix, Frank. I guess you got a bad batch of film, eh?

Frank Petronio

15-Jan-2010, 11:23

I add the frames in PS after I crop!

Robert Hughes

15-Jan-2010, 11:51

Aww, now you ruined it for us Frank. I thought you had something special going on...

Pete Watkins

15-Jan-2010, 12:48

Ash,
Your telling him! I've been sliding down the local slag heaps that we have left over from when we were a major coal mining area. Then then the pubs opened and I regained my senses.
Pete.

Robert Hughes

15-Jan-2010, 13:33

Ash,
I've been sliding down the local slag heaps that we have left over from when we were a major coal mining area.
We had a huge heap of Vermiculite here in Minneapolis, left from a 1930's operation - until the EPA carted it away. It was loaded with asbestos! :eek: No wonder we itched after playing there...

sly

15-Jan-2010, 14:59

Everyone should be Lillian,

another wonderful shot,

monty

Thank you Monty. I'm not worthy of your fandom, but I like it!

I wanted to post an antidote to "naked young woman in uncomfortable position" that is sometimes posted here. I'm sure all the men admire the young flesh. I'm just glad I don't have to sit, stand or sprawl with T&A stuck out. There are advantages to being middle-aged!

ConnorR

15-Jan-2010, 15:30

Connor!! I'm so jealous of that board!! LongboardLarry stuff is really expensive to ship to the UK!

I must say, this is the last place that I would ever expect to find longboarders. It just doesnt seem to fit the bill! And to know about Larry Longboards? Impressive. I've got a LBL Humu and a Landyachtz Drop Carve.

Ash

15-Jan-2010, 15:33

Yea I really wanted a Humu and got something similar off ebay, just 2" longer and it still felt too short, so I opted out from buying a LBL. I'd love a Dancer though.

Dirk Rösler

15-Jan-2010, 19:43

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4278087318_57fd6a7c5e_o.jpg

First attempts doing street portraits with 8x10. This is using Kodak Portrait Lens and Acros 8x10 in Rodinal, contact printed on Fuji TONE Gaslight paper.

Frank Petronio

15-Jan-2010, 19:57

Excellent Dirk, is that w your Norma? That circle above her head is cool.

Jan Pedersen

15-Jan-2010, 20:22

Another excellent Dirk. Please do continue to post.

jan

Dirk Rösler

15-Jan-2010, 20:59

Thanks Guys - this is not as easy as I thought, becoming the next American West Avedon for Japan :) The shooting is not so hard, but finding a good location to set up and then trying to get people to let their picture taken, especially the more interesting and odd looking people. Some girls ran away from me hahaha. This was my first session so at least next time I have samples to show to convince them.

This is with my Sinar F. The highlights in the OOF areas seem to be shaped by the shutter blades. Indeed, quite cool. I am not sure which lens to settle on for this project though, but the Kodak does better than I thought on this. Needless to say, the print looks a lot better and probably should be very nice on fibre paper.

Ash

16-Jan-2010, 01:11

Thats awesome Dirk!

Richard Wasserman

16-Jan-2010, 09:01

Dirk, this should be a great project! Have you seen Hiroh Kikai's Asakusa Portraits?

Dirk Rösler

16-Jan-2010, 15:40

Hi Richard, I am in indeed. His work is fantastic. I have to see where this takes me. Thanks for commenting.

Allen in Montreal

16-Jan-2010, 18:18

Super model Coco Rocha during a shoot in Montreal.
Most of the stuff was shot digi or Leica but I brought the Speed Graphic with one Graphmatic. One Canon speed light on full manual popped up into the ceiling.
125th at f8.

HP5 in D-76 1:1.

The setting is perfect for her,
I send and receive about 3000 text messages a month,
I have never used a mobile phone compared to this woman! :)
She was very very nice, a complete pleasure to work with.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8138/cocorocha13x.jpg (http://img7.imageshack.us/i/cocorocha13x.jpg/)

argos33

16-Jan-2010, 18:20

opps!

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/britt_snow_001.jpg

Did she try to climb up and fall down? I think I see the boot marks and her hands look cold and red. When I saw this I imagined you telling her to climb up there but she couldn't, so you took the photo there instead. Or did you take it there to have the snow as a background? Either way an intriguing shot, I like it.

Evan

SteveKarr

16-Jan-2010, 18:40

Seems this is a baby month ... My friend & her boys ...
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3306/soniajustin.jpg (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/soniajustin.jpg/)

sly

16-Jan-2010, 20:13

Every month is baby month!

Is this an alt print?

SteveKarr

16-Jan-2010, 20:45

Oh No... maybe I'm pregnant tooo ... I'm kinda' cranky

This is my home brew silver / gelatin on water color paper shot in camera. Sometimes it works , sometimes not. My a bad Vegetarian.

Every month is baby month!

Is this an alt print?

JR Steel

16-Jan-2010, 21:19

That boy knows how to smile! Love the tones in this. How did you develop the TMY-2?

My wife is coming off of maternity leave, so I'm spending more time at home with the new boy. This is Connor, taken just a few days ago with a Crown Graphic 4x5 and 135mm Optar on Kodak TMY2.

http://clients.brettsimison.com/external/BJS-20100108_4x5_008_8x10-Print.jpg.

VictoriaPerelet

17-Jan-2010, 03:10

I add the frames in PS after I crop!

Frank, on color pics notches look a bit disproportional, also Portra has lettering. Here are few Portra 400 NC 4x5 scans you can use:

http://www.victoriasphoto.com/Notes/Portra400/1.jpg

http://www.victoriasphoto.com/Notes/Portra400/2.jpg

http://www.victoriasphoto.com/Notes/Portra400/3.jpg

hope this helps.

bsimison

17-Jan-2010, 05:52

That boy knows how to smile! Love the tones in this. How did you develop the TMY-2?

He's definitely a smiley boy!

I develop Tmax 400 in HC-110 Dilution H (1:63) for 8:15 @ 23C, agitated for 5 seconds every two minutes.

Frank Petronio

17-Jan-2010, 06:54

Brett, that poor kid will have that great picture following him the rest of his life -- it will be displayed at his wedding and passed down for ages.

Victoria - good catch. Yes the frame I've been using is from an 8x10 and it isn't at all realistic proportion-wise. And it's grown generic over the years. I may even create my own notches.

Sorry to disappoint everyone who thought I cropped everything perfectly in-camera.

"I wish I had never taken those Steroids..."

benrains

17-Jan-2010, 20:39

Frank Petronio

17-Jan-2010, 21:47

But then you can see where it's overdeveloped on the edges!

Armin Seeholzer

18-Jan-2010, 02:50

A lovely one benrains the soft light makes it sing.

Cheers Armin

Milosz Wozaczynski

18-Jan-2010, 05:10

Ben, wonderful portrait. regards

Curt

18-Jan-2010, 05:35

monkeymon

18-Jan-2010, 14:47

Always 100% real borders if they're present! Admittedly my framing isn't perfect all the time, and I've no aversion to cropping an image to improve it, but forcing myself to be more attentive to what's on the ground glass has helped quite a bit.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3193508086_15200a97f0.jpg
Deardorff 8x10
Caltar-S II 360/6.8
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+25

This is good as it is.. composition & tones (i like the natural white, yellowish approach).. even the subject, but that's a given. Studying photogprahy i see too much boring photogprahy.. so it's nice to see some nicely made worth while shots.

SteveKarr

18-Jan-2010, 17:09

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3540/nat1i.jpg (http://img694.imageshack.us/i/nat1i.jpg/)

robertmgray

18-Jan-2010, 18:59

Ben, that's a wonderful portrait. I like the soft lighting as well as the contrast between her and the seat. I'm rather new, but I think we all appreciate that kind of contrast in a black and white photo which makes the subject 'pop' like it does here.

benrains

19-Jan-2010, 06:37

Frank - True, but not so much it couldn't be dealt with during printing.
Armin, Milosz, & robertmgray - Thanks!
Curt - I often try to leave myself a bit of "extra breathing room" with my portraits so I'll have the option to crop. And I think I see what you're after with your variant, but the crop looks a little too tight for me. If I were to crop it I'd probably go with something a little longer than a 5x7 ratio so the top edge isn't so close to her elbow and the bottom isn't so close to the foot of the chair.
monkeymon - I try, though I still have a long way to go. Also, naked ladies (or men) are generally pretty good subject material, if thousands of years of their continued representation in artwork are anything to go by. (Although 'food' seems to be another popular one. Apparently food and sex are important to us.)

bbarna

19-Jan-2010, 07:30

An African jazz guitarist...
Chamonix-45N, Rodenstock 210mm, Ilford FP4

lenicolas

19-Jan-2010, 07:53

bbarna, that's a realy nice portrait. love it. who's the guy? can we find any of his music? i got curious...

bbarna

19-Jan-2010, 08:02

Well, I don't think so... :-(
I made the picture in Segou, next to a 'pub' where he had a performance...
His name is Oba Mafunda

monkeymon

19-Jan-2010, 09:20

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

8x10, kinda screwed the composition a little.. well, it was my second attempt to take the 8x10 out.. this time i hade a nice lite wooden one instead of the fully metal orbit i struggled with last time.

Frank Petronio

19-Jan-2010, 09:30

It's a good composition and has nice lighting but I wish you focused on the man's eyes and left the aperture wide open or only slightly stopped down so the cooling fins didn't dominate. Of course a few strokes in PS could take care of that ;-)

monkeymon

19-Jan-2010, 10:04

i used a lot of movements, all that i got out of the camera, to get the motor in focus :).. i think it's the composition that makes the motor too dominant, his shoulde should have covered "laverda", then it would have worked much more nicely...

Kerik Kouklis

19-Jan-2010, 16:50

A few new wet plate portraits of some of my very best friends from this weekend. All are 8x10 on aluminum.

http://www.collodion.com/forum/uploads/47/matt.jpg

http://www.collodion.com/forum/uploads/47/bill_the_knight.jpg

http://www.collodion.com/forum/uploads/47/clay_the_prof.jpg

xmishx

19-Jan-2010, 17:42

Nice time period shots to go along with the props, Kerik.

jb7

19-Jan-2010, 17:52

crazy enough to be photographed in a crazy helmet,
but the resulting eye highlights are even crazier-

As Ted said, nice props too-

Looks like you all had a great time being serious-

Your coatings are wonderful, to say nothing of the pictures themselves-

Greg Lockrey

19-Jan-2010, 18:33

[QUOTE=Kerik Kouklis;550075]A few new wet plate portraits of some of my very best friends from this weekend. All are 8x10 on aluminum.

How fun.... ;)

Dave Aharonian

19-Jan-2010, 20:31

Excellent shots Kerik!!

BrianShaw

19-Jan-2010, 20:52

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Mark Sawyer

19-Jan-2010, 22:08

Excellent shots Kerik!!

Agreed! Kerik, you are the master!

Daniel_Buck

20-Jan-2010, 00:31

2 second exposure with my "SS Minnow" lens (See the end few pages of the WIDE OPEN (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=22286&page=31) thread for a bit more info) wish the in-focus part of the image was a bit more sharp, but I can see in the highlights of their eyes the movement of their heads, they just weren't quite steady enough for 2 seconds. Cropped in on an 8x10, probably more like a 5x7.

http://www.404photography.net/wip/minnow_portrait_01.jpg

BetterSense

20-Jan-2010, 07:09

If the lens was that fast, why were you using a 2 second exposure? Were you using paper or something?

Monty McCutchen

20-Jan-2010, 09:07

Here are a couple of my son Satchel age 7

20 x 24 Wet Plate Collodion Wide open at f5 15 to 18 second exposures

Monty

Milosz Wozaczynski

20-Jan-2010, 11:12

Dry plate, 8x10

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4290506810_c315d53bda_o.jpg

bsimison

20-Jan-2010, 11:19

Dry plate, 8x10

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4290506810_c315d53bda_o.jpg

Nicely done.

Dave Aharonian

20-Jan-2010, 11:21

Very nice Brett!

bsimison

20-Jan-2010, 11:57

Very nice Brett!

Thanks, Dave...but are you referring to Milosz's dry plate portrait above my post? :p

Dave Aharonian

20-Jan-2010, 12:39

Yes indeed I am!! It helps if I actually think before I type......

Thanks for the correction.

Dirk Rösler

20-Jan-2010, 20:10

Nice one Milosz, good work on your website too.

cjbroadbent

21-Jan-2010, 10:33

cjbroadbent

21-Jan-2010, 11:23

An illustrator gets asked to do a lot of odd things. That was an Annigoni this is a Rockwell. 4x5 in a SinarP+120 Symmar.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/SxfHr2l39wI/AAAAAAAACkY/10SZrfVOO0U/s800/present.jpg

Hugo Zhang

21-Jan-2010, 14:15

This is not my regular style. But just to show what fun we have sometimes.
A 4x5 ekta from gandolfi+135. Just one umbrella.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/S1iNAmXEWOI/AAAAAAAADR8/fctoFjBs6qs/s800/erbeZ2.jpg

Hi Christopher,

It is very classical and has an enchanting glow of a beautiful oil painting. Would you like to share some of your secrets? Lens, lighting and processing?

Thanks,
Hugo

al olson

21-Jan-2010, 20:00

Christopher, that is a gorgeous portrait of a beautiful woman. Did you not post post another image of the same woman holding a child (perhaps in the same dress) quite a while ago? That image was awesome!

cjbroadbent

22-Jan-2010, 00:25

Thanks Hugo and Al. Same girl different dress and different mood. This is green on green for a herbal product. In fact it's a reject because of the dark mood - the background light didn't fire.
Used the 135mm Symmar for this one because the Hasselblad soft filter fits the 135 with a strip of tape to hold it in. One umbrella behind a rectangular frost screen to get window reflections in the bottles (what, a window here?). Overexposed and underdeveloped Ektachrome for the desaturated look. I wish one could do things with secrets. There are none at all here.

benrains

22-Jan-2010, 14:07

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4294376645_4461aec1b5.jpg
Deardorff 8x10
Rodenstock Sironar-N 300/5.6
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4289316955_ab82de4ac5.jpg
Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 reducing back
Caltar II-N 240/5.6
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50

eddie

22-Jan-2010, 14:09

Deardorff 8x10
Rodenstock Sinonar-N 300/5.6
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50

Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 reducing back
Caltar II-N 240/5.6
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50

great stuff!

Robert Hughes

22-Jan-2010, 14:13

Now that is an impressive set of tats...

JRFrench

22-Jan-2010, 14:51

Benrains, wonderful shots of a beautiful lady! I especially like the setup and composition of the first shot, for what initially seems simple there is quite a lot to keep me interested.

benrains

22-Jan-2010, 16:24

Thanks everyone. Yes, she does have quite the collection of ink, partly because she's an ace tattoo artist herself. She's also recently headed back to school to pick up another degree, this time in biology with a focus on genetics, so... look out world.

Armin Seeholzer

22-Jan-2010, 16:32

Hi Ben

Wonderfull woman and very good and simply light, makes them really work!
The first is excellent the second not far behind!!

Cheers Armin

cjbroadbent

23-Jan-2010, 04:36

Things you can do with HDR tone-mapping from a double-scanned Ektachrome.
It's just a mock-up for portrait that I would get me sued if I posted it.
4x5 Gandolfi + 135 Sironar (a wooden camera is more reassuring for portraits).
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/S1n02VQ7xiI/AAAAAAAADVc/B5OyAmAxUvU/s800/self3_tmX.jpg

dreazulueta

24-Jan-2010, 08:17

Hello,
this is my first post.
just got into LF 4 months ago. here's my january portrait of a friend who teaches pole dancing.
Gundlach 5x7, Ilford 400.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4298206474_4af1e7b628_b.jpg

Mike V

24-Jan-2010, 14:57

Things you can do with HDR tone-mapping from a double-scanned Ektachrome.
It's just a mock-up for portrait that I would get me sued if I posted it.
4x5 Gandolfi + 135 Sironar (a wooden camera is more reassuring for portraits).

Great portrait Christopher. There is something very disaproving about his glance which makes me feel uneasy. I like it though.

cjbroadbent

24-Jan-2010, 15:31

"... very disapproving ..." about my helper not completely removing the dark slide. If you don't take it out altogether and stand there putting pressure on the felt strip the light gets in.

Greg Gibbons

24-Jan-2010, 17:44

Great portrait Christopher. I wish I had that kind of talent.

Matt Magruder

24-Jan-2010, 18:36

Here are a couple of my son Satchel age 7

20 x 24 Wet Plate Collodion Wide open at f5 15 to 18 second exposures

Monty

yer a badass monty.

cjbroadbent

25-Jan-2010, 01:30

...kind of talent. No talent required - I did military academy - and more important, no art. Taking a solid portrait just needs an umbrella off your left shoulder, a normal lens and a background. In fact there's a trick: Paint your background so that it shades across diagonally from dark to light so you get light-side face on dark and dark-side face on light. Don't have an umbrella? Sit next to the window. Use hands and shoulders for attitude and avoid smiles - unless it's Mona Lisa.

Frank Petronio

25-Jan-2010, 05:52

Thanks, I almost missed that. Anyone who does 20x24 Wet Plates of a kid with 15 second exposures is indeed badass. That they came out so well is even more badass.... Wow!

eddie

26-Jan-2010, 04:33

our own Louis P.

he was gracious enough to lend me his 18 inch plastigmat f5.6 lens. great fun. i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

wet plate collodion 5x7 aluminum plate at f11 for 3.5 or 4 sec.

Vlad Soare

26-Jan-2010, 06:31

This is my very first vandyke print. I'm surprised it turned out so well right from the first try.
I had installed my camera and was pleading with my wife to sit for a portrait (which she doesn't particularly like doing), when my three-year-old daughter (well, one of them :D) jumped into the armchair and said "Daddy, I want a picture". Amazingly, she sat still while I focused, inserted the film holder, removed the darkslide, and closed the shutter. And then she even managed not to move, not even to blink, during the 1/4s exposure. :eek:
I guess there are such days, when one gets simply lucky. :D

This is TMY-2 developed in D-76 1+1 for 80% more than the usual time. Straight print - no contrast tweaking, no toning.

eddie

26-Jan-2010, 11:46

great one Vlad!

Scott Walker

27-Jan-2010, 12:01

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Lorraine.jpg

T-Max 100 4x5 Printed on Seagull with watercolor highlites added to the lips & eyes and an area specific selenium bath to warm parts of the face

eddie

27-Jan-2010, 12:27

T-Max 100 4x5 Printed on Seagull with watercolor highlights added to the lips & eyes and an area specific selenium bath to warm parts of the face

WOW! love the subtlety of the colors.

William McEwen

27-Jan-2010, 16:34

[QUOTE=eddie;552683]our own Louis P.

he was gracious enough to lend me his 18 inch plastigmat f5.6 lens. great fun. i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

QUOTE]

Or smacked him over the head with it and run off! :)

Robert Hughes

27-Jan-2010, 16:36

i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

Oh, I misread that. I thought you said, "I should have hit on him...":eek:

seven

30-Jan-2010, 05:10

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4304175067_b3bc1eaf0a_o.jpg

8x10, 18" Hunter Penrose Penray Hilite

creep

31-Jan-2010, 06:12

Grand China Princess Bangkok, mmx

Sinar F/F2, TXP, my wife.

http://www.creep.lt/linkout/j-800.jpg

eddie

31-Jan-2010, 18:11

a puppet from my NYC shoot.

f5.6 for 12 sec on black aluminum. artificial light.

goamules

1-Feb-2010, 10:34

Well this was taken the afternoon of the last day in January, so it goes here.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4321405320_dd5773b8b2.jpg

Halfplate collodion with ~1851 Lerebours et Secretan petzval, at Marks house. Always good shooting there. He and the girl on the left took some also that I'm sure he'll post.

Garrett
flickr gallery (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsphotos/)

ThePhilosopher

1-Feb-2010, 19:27

Shot on Sunday, my first real LF portrait.
Sinar Alpina 4x5 w/Schneider Xenar 150mm f/5.6, 1/250@f/8, expired Plus-X 125 shot at ISO100 developed in T-Max 1:4 for 8 minutes. Lighting is a Bowens 500w/s monolight through a 3'x4' softbox:
http://www.bartkophoto.com/EmilyA/EmilyA_F_002.jpg

Joe Smigiel

2-Feb-2010, 14:00

Tomas,

I really like your wife's portrait. The arch of her back echoes the wall behind her very nicely. A great mix of linear and organic elements are present.

creep

2-Feb-2010, 16:03

Tomas,

I really like your wife's portrait. The arch of her back echoes the wall behind her very nicely. A great mix of linear and organic elements are present.
Joe - thank you very much, she's the amazing one ;)

Morca

2-Feb-2010, 20:09

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4326259159_cd2e2ca12c_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4326259159/)

Half test shot to make sure the camera works, half first real portrait. Info on the flickr page.