December 2017 Portraits

[chassis]

Hi!

Christmas is coming ;-)

Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
Kodak Aeroektar 178/2.5
HP5+ : HC-110(d) 6'30"


¡feliz Navidad ... ! by Antonio Gimeno, on Flickr

Cheers!

Lots to like! Exposure, sharp focus, bokeh, subject all work for me. Feliz Navidad!

[gimenosaiz]

Lots to like! Exposure, sharp focus, bokeh, subject all work for me. Feliz Navidad!

Thank you, chassis !! Feliz Navidad ;-)

[BrianShaw]

Hi!

Christmas is coming ;-)

Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
Kodak Aeroektar 178/2.5
HP5+ : HC-110(d) 6'30"


¡feliz Navidad ... ! by Antonio Gimeno, on Flickr

Cheers!

Sweet...


And from one Speed Graphic user to another, Merry Christmas to you!

[ndwgolf]

my beautiful wife shot with Chamonix 4x5 Edcar 100 devopoped at home with C41 scanned with V850


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[barnacle]

Would you consider me ungracious if I suggested the lighting was perhaps a touch harsh? (Yes, sunlight tends to do that!)

Neil

[ndwgolf]

Would you consider me ungracious if I suggested the lighting was perhaps a touch harsh? (Yes, sunlight tends to do that!)

Neil

Not at all.............We had already got a nice picture in softer light, this was just me trying to get one more

Neil

[gimenosaiz]

Sweet...


And from one Speed Graphic user to another, Merry Christmas to you!

Thank you!! Merry Christmas :-)

Un abrazo

[johnmsanderson]

Cooke Family, Carbon County, Wyoming

8x10 Kodak Portra 400/Fujinon A 300mm f/9

[Peter Lewin]

John, That is a simply wonderful portrait. I wouldn't even try to gauge the difficulty of getting perfect expressions (let alone the technical stuff, like focus!) from nine people and a dog!

[johnmsanderson]

John, That is a simply wonderful portrait. I wouldn't even try to gauge the difficulty of getting perfect expressions (let alone the technical stuff, like focus!) from nine people and a dog!

Thanks, Peter!

I was planning on doing their portrait all summer and it only came around at the end of September. Originally I was going to photograph them closer to the town of Saratoga, Wyoming, where I was living for the summer with my family. But they invited me out to their ranch (they have about 5k head of cattle during the summer) for the portrait. They are about 45 minutes to an hour off the main highway on gravel roads to their ranch. Very, very isolated but breathtakingly beautiful location. In the back is Elk Mountain, the original Overland Stage Coach route passed near here, snaking its way around the mountain and across the North Platte River. This is real cowboy country.

This was shot at 1/4 second, my technique was to get their attention with my dark slide above the camera, but I also had a ranch hand holding an umbrella up to block the wind--this can be a very windy part of the country. This was the first sheet exposed, I did a second but it did not turn out.