April 2015 Portraits

[RHITMrB]

Edward by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr

Edward moved to Ethiopia last year from Washington, DC with his Ethiopian wife Jasmine to manage the Befikir Kossoye Lodge. He made the best Western-style dinner I had in Ethiopia.

He had lived in Gondar as a child when his father was stationed there. It's changed a lot, he says, in 50 years.

[chrism]

Still experimenting. Current batch of paper seems to be about ISO 6, so I need more lights! Since B&H are shut for Passover, I went back to HP5+ which I can rate at 640 if developed in Diafine.



Incidentally, I scanned this on a 4870. It's top light for transmission scanning is smaller than the 10x8 negative, so I scanned it reflectively! I'm surprised, but it didn't do too awful a job.

Chris

[SergeiR]

8x10, 360mm Symmar-S, single light setup

Morning portrait session by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[jp]

Quick easter dress snap with fp100c45 film. Speed graphic with optar 203

[richardman]

Homage to Leonard Nimoy

So I am starting another 4x5 portrait project called "The Worldbuilders of Science Fiction and Fantasy." For the inaugural image, I photographed Wanda, who is a friend, but also notably written one of the well known episodes of the 2nd season of the Star Trek: Next Generation. The kicker is that it was the first script she had ever written, but more on that later.

Anyway, after finishing photographing, I was about to do our audio interview and the subject of Leonard Nimoy came up. Wanda said that while they had never met, Leonard Nimoy was her mentor and inspiration. Then she said that actually there was a famous photo of Nimoy standing in front of his car. She said she wouldn't presume to copy Mr. Nimoy but asked if we could take a snapshot with a digital camera.

I thought about it (sadly mainly about the price of film, at $4 a sheet, it IS expensive) and said, "lets go ahead and take out the 4x5 again." I looked at the image on the web (*) and said, "I know exactly where there is a power substation in town." It is only 10 minutes away and here's the image:



Enjoy. More on Wanda later.

(*) Here's a link to the Nimoy photo (search for "Spock Fairlane") :
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...39f39cdd46.jpg

[appletree]

8x10, 360mm Symmar-S, single light setup

Morning portrait session by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

Your work always makes me say, "oh man", out loud. Then I'm not shocked when I see it is your work.

[SergeiR]

Your work always makes me say, "oh man", out loud. Then I'm not shocked when I see it is your work.

thank you, Johnathon, thats very kind of you

[Kurshpetow]

Maybe its not classic portrait=)
Zeiss maximar
Svema film 9x12cm
Laack Rathenow 13,5cm Dialytar
f: 6,3
exposure time 1/25 seconds

Snork, game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cosplay

[fishbulb]

Nice shot Richard. I instantly recognized it as a homage to the Nimoy portrait without reading the text, and wondered "what's the connection here?"

[richardman]

Nice shot Richard. I instantly recognized it as a homage to the Nimoy portrait without reading the text, and wondered "what's the connection here?"

Thanks!