December 2014 Portraits

[jp]

Great stuff Pfiltz, Stephane!

I noticed in the FS section, someone was selling a 9" Gundlach Hyperion and had high praise for it. Instead of coveting it, I went to my garage's secret lens stash and got mine out and made a lensboard for it so I could give it a try. I'd bought it earlier in the year because the price was right, not because I was ready to use it. Now I was ready. I was itching to shoot some film before the weekend was over.

My experience with SF lenses is mostly with the Reinhold Wollaston Meniscus, Verito, and Kodak 305 portrait. This lens seems like the Kodak in that the spherical aberration and pleasing focus is definitely skewed toward the background which is good. I'll have to take it outdoors to see where it differs from the other lenses. Focusing on some Christmas lights, the near out of focus were halos and the far out of focus turned from ideal bokeh circles into nice pearly dots. This lens has a very round iris as would be expected of a classic that doesn't use a studio shutter. I'm going to need more outings with this to determine more of it's character and get the best out of it. It's a little prone to lower contrast wide open, perhaps because I was not careful with my lighting, but it got snappier just half a stop down. These are with tmax 400 film in pyrocat hd. 2 100w equiv. CFL bulbs in aluminum dishes lit things, such as the nasty shadow on the paper background and of course the subjects and provided speeds of 1/20 to 1/30 sec.

. Initially it seems to produce solid 1920's looking style without much effort. I'd prefer a more personal style, but that will happen with time and film consumption.


img567 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
wide open


img570 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
5.6


img568 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
wide open

Setup:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/16079550072/

Lens:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/15892971000/

[jumanji]

Thank you Richard, Nede and Peter.

[SergeiR]

Sergei, please, provide your processing details. I have been trying to achieve this balance of contrast with Xray.

they are in X-ray film thread

[Harley Goldman]

5x4 fomapan 100, 25:1 ordinal..

Very well done. You captured a lot of life in this image.

[Pfiltz]

Thanks folks...

[nede]

is it still a portrait?
8x10fomapan 100

[Peter Lewin]

is it still a portrait?
8x10fomapan 100

Definitely! And an extremely nice one too! Picturesque location, interesting use of plane of focus, and an attractive and well-posed subject. What more can you ask for?

[SergeiR]

8x10, #4 Vitax , finally got it cleaned, mounted, and shutter sorted. First test.

Scan-141224-0001www by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[nede]

Thank you Peter !

[alavergh]

"Behind Me"

In this, I thought I'd try out a bit of the swings to add dramatic blur. I used my Wisner 4x5 Tech, 210 Fuji wide open at f5.6, and swung the front standard full towards the left and the back was swung full to the right. Exposure was around 1/15 sec in clouds on ISO 100 Arista EDU.