November 2013 portraits

[StoneNYC]

One of my boys and the homecoming princess (also his GF) he escorted this year. They rode in the black '54 Buick in the homecoming parade.

Zone VI 8x10 with Fuji W 300mm
Exposure not recorded
FP4+, developed in Ilford PQ Universal developer (1:9, 70F for 12 minutes)
Scanned Platinum/palladium print

Lucky guy... For the cool photo and the striking GF.

[rcmartins]

This is a portrait of a friend and fellow portuguese LF photographer next to his very nice MPP. Being the first photo I took with Reinhold's meniscus lens I wanted to post the result as I am actually quite pleased with the outcome.
raul

Chamonix 45N2 with Reinhold Schable's Wollaston Meniscus, 287mm, f/5.6, ~1s
ADOX CHSII 100 4x5, PyrocatHD SS, 36 min @ 20ºC
Epson V7xx w/ no processing scanned with Epson Scanner software

[Harley Goldman]

This is a wet plate collodion experiment.
So two exposures on the same plate.
It needs very accurate measuring but I am happy with the result.

26,5 x 26,5 cm tintype
Dallmeyer 3a wide open (f4)
exposure times 2 x 3 seconds.

Beautifully done. I like this a lot.

[thicktheo]

Omega View 45D | Leitz Hektor 150mm/f2.5 | Kodak Royal Pan (expired 1973)

[StoneNYC]

Omega View 45D | Leitz Hektor 150mm/f2.5 | Kodak Royal Pan (expired 1973)

This is really beautiful

Wow f/2.5 I wasn't aware they even made a lens that wide in LF haha shows how little I know.

I see some bubbling? Above the girls body, is that the film emulsion?

How did you keep this usable being so old? I've exposed film older, but never quite as well as this I think.

[Ramiro Elena]

I've looked for that lens since Thodoris started sharing his images. It is a triplet design from a 6x7 slide projector. Very nice as always Theo ;-)

[StoneNYC]

I've looked for that lens since Thodoris started sharing his images. It is a triplet design from a 6x7 slide projector. Very nice as always Theo ;-)

So it's created by him?

[thicktheo]

Wow f/2.5 I wasn't aware they even made a lens that wide in LF haha shows how little I know.

Well they didn't make it for LF, this is a projection lens.

I see some bubbling? Above the girls body, is that the film emulsion?

How did you keep this usable being so old? I've exposed film older, but never quite as well as this I think.

There's bubbling and fogging and scratches and all kinds of artifacts on this film.

I expose it for ISO 25 (it used to be ISO 400 back in '73) and develop it with Diafine. The film comes out foggy and dark but scans good enough. Doesn't print that easy, though.

[StoneNYC]

Well they didn't make it for LF, this is a projection lens.




There's bubbling and fogging and scratches and all kinds of artifacts on this film.

I expose it for ISO 25 (it used to be ISO 400 back in '73) and develop it with Diafine. The film comes out foggy and dark but scans good enough. Doesn't print that easy, though.

Oh ok, so it's like any of my film you're just good at scanning lol.

I shot 1947 film at EI 0.75 before with good results HAH!

[Jim Graves]

My best November portrait so far ... a B&L 8x10 Petzval test shot f-5 ... 1/15th sec ... my subjects never showed up ... I might turn this into a series ... Arista Edu Ultra 100 souped in HC 110 E at 64 degrees for 20 minutes: