How about a New Portrait thread?

[speanburgarts]

Alicia
Century 8x10
Wollensak lense
Ilford FP4

[Marcus Carlsson]

speanburgarts: That's wonderful. She looks so vulnerable (sp) and at ease at the same time.

/ Marcus

[speanburgarts]

Thank you Marcus, it is one of my better works because of her, she struck this pose of her own thought and the light illuminated her perfectly.


By the way- on your site, your image of Ellen is stunning, I think the light is acting in a simular manner, but it seems to illuminate the subject even more so.

[Hugo Zhang]

speanbergarts,

That IS a beautiful picture! The pose, light and mood created with that lens.

[Jim Galli]

speanbergarts,

That IS a beautiful picture! The pose, light and mood created with that lens.

Yes! I agree. I love the mood created by the softness and flare in the older lenses. Please stop the clock so she never gets a day older. She is perfect.

Velostigmat Series II ?

[speanburgarts]

thanks again for the compliments.

The lense is a 11 1/2 inch Wollensak Versar Portrait and View in a very moody old Regular shutter circa about 1900, by my memory I shot that at about f8 ( old scale ) the exposer was about 1/50.

I am interested if anyone has information about using this lense in the convertable mode ? I understand the Versars were convertable ?

[Jim Galli]

thanks again for the compliments.

The lense is a 11 1/2 inch Wollensak Versar Portrait and View in a very moody old Regular shutter circa about 1900, by my memory I shot that at about f8 ( old scale ) the exposer was about 1/50.

I am interested if anyone has information about using this lense in the convertable mode ? I understand the Versars were convertable ?

Here's a page that mentions that. Some had 2 scales. If you simply unscrew the front group from the shutter you'll end up with about a 22 inch lens. Just double the aperture numbers. f8 will be f16 or very very close. Only you can decide if it's 'good enough' or not. Sometimes fuzzy is better.

[speanburgarts]

Now you have caused me to go ummm ... the link you posted is a scan of the original specifications for the versar lenses, however it lists a 2 inch diameter for a 11 1/2 inch 8x10 lense and a 2 1/2 inch diameter for a 14 3/4 inch 10x12 lense. I measured and I apparently have the 14 3/4 inch lense. Thus I assume the convertable size would be about 28 inch ? My lense also has the second scale.

I will try it and see.

[speanburgarts]

on the other hand I just noticed it says 8x10 on the lense thus it is the 11 1/2 inch. In any case that is enough lense for my work.

[jnantz]

11x14 century camera
wolly triple -wide/30sec
hand made 7x11 back/paper holder
fake ilford/photowarehouse made in england
ansco130