More 8x10 portraits from my "First 20" series

[tribby]

nice stuff, hank.

i like the linky to the girl peeing. i'm hoping her next series will be of her pinching loafs.

that gets me hot,

me

p.s. cleveland steamer hot.

p.p.s. want i should hurt jj? 'cause i can, quite easily.

[John_4185]

tribby p.p.s. want i should hurt jj? 'cause i can, quite easily.

Never start a fight with an olde pharte - if you win there is no honor, and if you lose you will never live it down.

[C.A]

I'm happy to see people using large format photography for any subject they choose. I do see JJ's point of view, and if I hadn't known they were taken on a 8x10 view camera I would have looked at them as merely happy snaps, although impact is greatly lost on a computer monitor. Avedon shot his portraits on a 8x10, but his work captured the sitters grace and dignity. I do feel smiley portraits lack something and tend to be too sugary. Having said that if your happy with your work and method carry on enjoying what you do.

[Vui Shin Chong]

Hi,
Sorry if this sound stupid but how do you attach pictures onto your line. I want to share a portrait that I have done with a 8x10.

Regards

Chong

[Henry Ambrose]

tribby!
the one and only - where have you been? -- never mind I probably don't want to know!

jj
write back - this might turn into something worth reading.

C.Alex
I tried to get them to let me cover them in honey so bees would crawl all over them but they said that was too sweet! And the bees were most dissappointed. What am I gonna do?

[John_4185]

VS Chong: Go here: largeformatphotography.info/lfforum/htmlhelp.php

[Vui Shin Chong]

Hi All,
I end up posting the picture on photo.net. Here is the link. Hope you like it Henry.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=00Eek8&photo_id=3982545&photo_sel_index=0

Regards

Chong

[Henry Ambrose]

So Vui, tell us about your picture.

[Vui Shin Chong]

Hi Henry,
This was taken 2 months back and the model is a work colleague who liked my landscape works and asked me whether I could take her portrait as a Christmas gift for her mum. I mainly do landscape and only agree because I bought a set of used studio lights.

Some technical data.

Camera: - 8x10 wooden John Nesbitt
Lens: - 355mm f9 G-Claron
Film: - Classic ASA 200 (Eastern european made) - Good films.
Light: - one Elinchrom 250w through a soft umbrella + window light

I contact printed a copy for her on Fomalux Grade 2 contact paper and the fine details on that print can't be resoluted on the scan. She is very pleased with it. This particular shot was actually the last sheet of the shoot. I only brought with me 4 negatives. I visualised this shoot before I took it and I am pleased that it came out the way I wanted it.

Regards

Chong