Tiny Format Portraits

[metalsmith]

Excellent light- one spot at high key? please tell....

[Tin Can]

Thanks. Sometimes I feel like my photographic style is a bit too firmly anchored in the 1960s, though, and I'm not sure how to break out.

Roger is a well-known violist, and a very expressive person, so I had a good model. I shoot a lot of musicians, and they're easy models because they know how to look good and don't mind being the center of attention. In front of a camera they easily click into performing mode.

No reason to change now, all your portraits look very good.

[Peter De Smidt]

Thanks. Sometimes I feel like my photographic style is a bit too firmly anchored in the 1960s, though, and I'm not sure how to break out.

It's a terrific photo! Don't worry about "breaking out". Just do what appeals to you.

[Peter De Smidt]

Hetocy,

That first one in particular is very fine.

[hetocy]

Excellent light- one spot at high key? please tell....

You're right, one spot , "Rembrandt" setting with only one 135w lightbox .

[Darko Pozar]

Nikon FM2, Nikkor 24mm, 400TX

Just hanging out by the Jetty...

[Pierre 2]

Live shot, Sam, bassist for Juliana&Jesse. Pentax ME Super, 135mm 2.5, TMAX400 from 1989, Rodinal 1:50, 25 mn; quite obviously treated in LR.

[alanbutler57]

Bored with the movie the wife picked out, so, I converted one of my earliest digital captures, from about 2006 or so, shot with the Olympus UZI. Over edited for sure, but I like to think I've gotten better over the last 9 or so years.

JesBW by Alan Butler, on Flickr

[alanbutler57]

A heavily Edited candid from ~2009

Clone of Mask Rework0712 by Alan Butler, on Flickr

[alanbutler57]

Still looking through old photos:
In the Garden by Alan Butler, on Flickr