January Portraits

[eddie]

our own Louis P.

he was gracious enough to lend me his 18 inch plastigmat f5.6 lens. great fun. i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

wet plate collodion 5x7 aluminum plate at f11 for 3.5 or 4 sec.

[Vlad Soare]

This is my very first vandyke print. I'm surprised it turned out so well right from the first try.
I had installed my camera and was pleading with my wife to sit for a portrait (which she doesn't particularly like doing), when my three-year-old daughter (well, one of them ) jumped into the armchair and said "Daddy, I want a picture". Amazingly, she sat still while I focused, inserted the film holder, removed the darkslide, and closed the shutter. And then she even managed not to move, not even to blink, during the 1/4s exposure.
I guess there are such days, when one gets simply lucky.

This is TMY-2 developed in D-76 1+1 for 80% more than the usual time. Straight print - no contrast tweaking, no toning.

[eddie]

great one Vlad!

[Scott Walker]

T-Max 100 4x5 Printed on Seagull with watercolor highlites added to the lips & eyes and an area specific selenium bath to warm parts of the face

[eddie]

T-Max 100 4x5 Printed on Seagull with watercolor highlights added to the lips & eyes and an area specific selenium bath to warm parts of the face

WOW! love the subtlety of the colors.

[William McEwen]

[QUOTE=eddie;552683]our own Louis P.

he was gracious enough to lend me his 18 inch plastigmat f5.6 lens. great fun. i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

QUOTE]

Or smacked him over the head with it and run off!

[Robert Hughes]

i should have hid it on him so i could play with it later.

Oh, I misread that. I thought you said, "I should have hit on him..."

[seven]

8x10, 18" Hunter Penrose Penray Hilite

[creep]

Grand China Princess Bangkok, mmx

Sinar F/F2, TXP, my wife.

[eddie]

a puppet from my NYC shoot.

f5.6 for 12 sec on black aluminum. artificial light.