please post your petzval shots

[leighmarrin]

Thanks, Jonathan. I'm losing interest in swirls, but am instead liking the other qualities of petzvals more, even the odd curved plane of focus.

--Leigh.

[jcoldslabs]

I think the swirls are fun, but they don't make a photograph what it is--or shouldn't. I am liking my Petzvals for the same reason you mention, although my example above is guilty or peripheral swirling. Sometimes it can't be helped. I hope to do some portraits sometime soon with mine, but I am not very aggressive when it comes to soliciting models, even if they are friends. It just seems too forward or demanding, especially when I am not yet convinced I have a portraitist's eye. Hence all the shots in my back yard!

Jonathan

[Ramiro Elena]

From a series I am doinf of my home town.
No name Petzval 180mm ƒ4.5
Fomapan100 in FomadonR09 severely under-exposed and/or underdeveloped.


Palau Maricel por rabato, en Flickr

[ImSoNegative]

Luke i have a lens that does the exact same thing as yours

[Scott --]

Posted in the portrait thread, but I saw another B&J Ajax image in this thread, so I'll post this here, too:


img050 by Scott --, on Flickr

B&J Ajax #2 Portrait Petzval (from Richard Rankin), 10x12 FP4+