June 2009 Portraits

[Jim Galli]

got to play with my new Hermagis petzval today. ran into some hurdles with rain, chemistry, and the like but got some before the clouds rained down.

24inch f 4.5 wide open. about 35 inches of extension. (note the 8x8 lens board) 10 seconds.

Awesome set up Eddie. Hope I get to see it in person some day. I have a bonafide 25 inch Voigtlander but they sacrificed the f4 after they left 21 inch so the casing is the same size, but it's longer and maybe f5 or so.

[Ken Lee]

Here's my contribution.


Beautiful !

[monkeymon]

9x12 rangefinder in action, lens flare?

[Steve M Hostetter]

eddie,, plenty of working distance and nice tight crop,, well tighter... and look at that background is that an 11x14 image..?

[eddie]

eddie,, plenty of working distance and nice tight crop,, well tighter... and look at that background is that an 11x14 image..?

thanks steve. it is an 8x10 shot. i had it on my 11x14 today but i could not get my camera stand out the door (bad back) and so i shot more 8x10 today. the 11x14 head shot looks awesome i just need more light. stay tuned for todays 8x10 images....they are tighter.

[eddie]

well, i was at it again today. tighter head shots were in order. i was very challenged but the long exposure times. they were in the 11-12 second range....moe moe is very good at holding still but these times really push it. i will build a head brace this week. this should help a lot.

collodion on 8x10 aluminum. 24 inch petzval at f4.5ish just shy of 1:1. about 11 seconds ( a bit over exposed at that)

(a few more over in the still life thread)

[Frank Petronio]

Melody (Meagan's twin sister) in Chicago

[SadChi]

Melody (Meagan's twin sister) in Chicago

Frank,

Interesting composition and usage of simple coner !

[chachahavana]

got to play with my new Hermagis petzval today. ran into some hurdles with rain, chemistry, and the like but got some before the clouds rained down.

24inch f 4.5 wide open. about 35 inches of extension. (note the 8x8 lens board) 10 seconds.

Hi Eddie
Thank you very much for the tip and great to see the giant set up in action.

I like to do my first contribution to this thread, chamonix 8x10, fujinon 300 f/5.6 ( sorry, it's a modern lens ), Tilted, Shanghai Brand B/W film, iso 100

cheers
ChaChaHavana

[eddie]

Hi Eddie
Thank you very much for the tip and great to see the giant set up in action.



cheers
ChaChaHavana

no worries. awesome shot BTW!