Nothing more than an umbrella over my right shoulder. I've used hasselblad bubble filters, ringed and zigzagged soft filters and stockings. Stockings work below f.22. Hasselblads are best (it they fit), they can go to f.45.
Nothing more than an umbrella over my right shoulder. I've used hasselblad bubble filters, ringed and zigzagged soft filters and stockings. Stockings work below f.22. Hasselblads are best (it they fit), they can go to f.45.
Don't the stockings work equally well in post, over the enlarging lens? Then you get a choice.
I've tried on the enlarger but it seems to put the whole thing into fuzzy focus. Nearly all the stuff I do is on Ektachrome which goes to the process printer. The stocking on LF seems to keep the tones smooth and gets rid of the micro-contrast. Process printers tend to overdo the sharpening which kills the mood with exaggerated detail. So I pre-empt them with the stocking. See this 'invisible stocking' shot, no micro-contrast, lots of detail: http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...8/cassina1.jpg (not a portrait)Originally Posted by Frank Petronio
If you are working with negative films -- you get a very different effect when diffusing at the enlarger. Diffuser on the camera runs highlights in to the shadows ( the bright light flairs). At the enlarger it runs the shadows into the highlights ( again - the negative's bright light flairs into the surounding area. Hope I am making myself clear??? If however, you are printing a transparency onto a direct positive material -- it would be pretty much the same as on camera diffusing.
Recent portrait(s), working proof.
8x10 MasterView • Verito 8 3/4 (front element out) • F8-ish • open/shut
Last edited by matthew blais; 1-Dec-2008 at 00:10.
Matt, I love the portrait and the model. Looks like I should have stayed at your place a little longer. Print tones look good to me. Nice going.
Jim
This is my first attempt at LF portraits.
Rodenstock Isarex 210mm f/6.3, wide open. Fomapan 100 in R09. These are scans of the prints, not of the negatives.
Natural lighting, plus a white reflector.
In the second picture I used some front tilt to lower the depth of field.
I had to crop the second picture quite tightly because I inadvertently got the reflector in the frame. Oops!
A crop from Ekta 4x5. One umbrella and a 1.5 volt flash taped over the lenshood.
A crop from Ekta 4x5. One umbrella and a 1.5 volt flash taped over the lenshood.[/QUOTE]
Wow, beautiful portrait...
tara-ta-ta !!
The Pianist,
Polonaise fantasy, Op.61
Saint Merry church, 30 Nov Recital
Hand held
scanned neg (under-exposed)
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