Seven, Logging in just to say how good that Dallmeyer-Bergheim portrait is.
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Seven, Logging in just to say how good that Dallmeyer-Bergheim portrait is.
Captured and drugged critter, 120mm nikkor macro, 800mm extension, 4x5 efke 25 in pmk.
"Captured and drugged critter"
A friend froze some cockroaches so that he could photograph them posed in various toy trucks. A couple of days later he took them out of the freezer and within minutes, under the heat of the lights, they started to scamper away.
That's exactly what this guy did. I caught him, put him in a jar with a cotton ball soaked in nail polish remover (acetone). The next morning I did one shot before he started to wiggle his antennae. I didn't notice it until I got the E-6 slide back.
My turn :)
http://ambrotype.ru/wet-plate-collod...ges/Amused.jpg
Lucky Bargee, BGA, Ambrotype, 18x24 cm
I used Hugo Meyer Portrait Trioplan 12"/3.5 Full opened
Gary ,a beautiful portrait.
Could you expand a little on you did you light the artist. I note a large window on back so you must have used some front light. Strobes?
Thanks Luis
That's a lovely Ambrotype too-
Was that flash lit?
Looks like a short exposure...
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Joseph, thank you
I use two fluorescent lights sources to make my ambros. Each light source has seven big energy saving lamps (input power: 105Wt, temperature: 6500K)
Exposure was about 5 seconds at F/3.5 but I underexpose a little bit - so right exposure should be ~7 seconds.
BTW, I do not use any head brace to "lock" the sitter head :)
What a hero then-
it looks instantaneous-