September 2013 Portraits

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Maya



Deardorff - Imagon 250 - FP4+ - 5x7 - Pyrocat HD

Very nice! Shows the benefit of using the soft focus lenses with shade, and of using areas of light and dark (shirt, woods, flora) to create a composition.

[Ken Lee]

Maya



Deardorff - Imagon 250 - FP4+ - 5x7 - Pyrocat HD

Very nice ! Best of both worlds: sharp and soft.

I thought I didn't like the upper-left-hand corner, but it gives a sense of depth and lets the image breathe... perfecto.

[D-tach]

Very nice! Shows the benefit of using the soft focus lenses with shade, and of using areas of light and dark (shirt, woods, flora) to create a composition.

Very nice ! Best of both worlds: sharp and soft.

I thought I didn't like the upper-left-hand corner, but it gives a sense of depth and lets the image breathe... perfecto.

Thanks gentlemen - well I was actually thinking of cloning that left sky spot out, my eye keeps going to it.

[Tim Meisburger]

Lovely!

If I cover the light spot I like it, but if I crop to eliminate it, it somehow throws the composition out of balance for me, so in this case cloning or burning in would work for me. Since I was cropping (two cards on my computer screen) I also cropped it in a portrait orientation (about 35mm ratio), which to me creates dark borders and emphasizes the very strong verticals.

Some people like cropping and some hate it, but I seem to like it!

[Alan Gales]

Maya



Deardorff - Imagon 250 - FP4+ - 5x7 - Pyrocat HD

"Maya, look out behind you!" "There is someone or something in those trees!"

Your image looks spooky like it's from some horror film.

[D-tach]

Lovely!

If I cover the light spot I like it, but if I crop to eliminate it, it somehow throws the composition out of balance for me, so in this case cloning or burning in would work for me. Since I was cropping (two cards on my computer screen) I also cropped it in a portrait orientation (about 35mm ratio), which to me creates dark borders and emphasizes the very strong verticals.

Some people like cropping and some hate it, but I seem to like it!

Thanks Tim - developed today 3 other sheets of Efke 25 (shot with the Cooke) from the same session and one of them was framed vertically but the gras and trees don't have that same glow

"Maya, look out behind you!" "There is someone or something in those trees!"

Your image looks spooky like it's from some horror film.

Blair witch in Belgium!

[rpalm]

Maya



Deardorff - Imagon 250 - FP4+ - 5x7 - Pyrocat HD

I LIKE it!

r

[AtlantaTerry]

OK, fellow photographers I've gotta ask: what is the secret for having your photos show up nice and large? The ones I upload show up about business card size.

[AtlantaTerry]

There are these folks who on weekends dress up as fantasy characters from films such as "Lord of the Rings". Then they run around in large fields having mock battles where they chase and bash each with foam-covered weapons. This is called by some, LARP (Live Action Role Play). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_ac...e-playing_game

So I dropped by about 4pm one Sunday afternoon to create some character portraits with a 300mm Rodenstock f5.6 lens in a Copal 3 shutter that I bid on and won from an eBay seller. What I did not know when I bid was that the lens was designed for 8x10 film (!) so it is both large and heavy. It is too large for my Crown Graphic but works very well on my Cambo.

This portrait of Denis is the very first one that I created with the Rodenstock, ever.


© 2013 Terry Thomas Photos; Atlanta

film: 4x5 Shanghai
ISO 50
camera: Cambo
lens: Rodenstock 300mm f5.6
compendium: Cambo
20x30 inch black card to his right to reduce light in order to give dimension to his face
exposure: 1/2 @ f/16
light meter: Sekonic L-758DR
Manfrotto video tripod with fluid head
D76 stock
constant slow gentle agitation for 3 minutes (per the Massive Chart due to warm temperatures)
it was the very first time I used an HP Combi tank
scanned for me by a friend on his Epson V700
unedited

The next time I go back to the park to photograph these folks, I am not going to use f/16 because I want the background to be more out of focus.

[jcoldslabs]

OK, fellow photographers I've gotta ask: what is the secret for having your photos show up nice and large? The ones I upload show up about business card size.

If you upload your photos to the LFPF site, which I assume you are doing, the files are size limited (presumably to save server space). If you use your own hosting service--many people use Flickr, whereas others have their own external hosting locations--you can embed a link to your photos and they will be displayed much larger.

Jonathan