March Portraits

[dlin]

Beautiful portrait, Daniel, and consistent with your work, in general. I like the contrast of the ruggedly masculine subject and soft, delicate tones, and warm image color. I wonder how the subject feels about it?

Thank you, Jay, Brad and Jim. The subject in this portrait didn't think it was necessarily his best look, but liked the feel of image.

All the best,
Daniel

[Jay DeFehr]

Thanks, Daniel. I never tire of looking at portraits, or discussing them with other photographers, and I could ask a hundred more questions about how your relationships to your subjects inform your decisions about the lighting, materials, and equipment you use to portray them. I'm often surprised when looking through proofs of a session, a subject chooses his favorite. I think most people want to present their best appearance to the world, and these choices are revelatory, in more ways than one; they reveal something about the subject's self image, and something about the tension between the way the subject wants to be presented, and the way the photographer wants to be represented. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work; giving me something to look at, and something to think about.

[theBDT]

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[Steve M Hostetter]

Steve your portraits have a lovely quality...very nice.

Kev,, Thank you for the kind words..

[Morca]

[Thebes]

Tri-X Pan 320 4x5, 210 Topcor f5.6 at f11 - 1/8 second
Shot Feb 2010, hadn't had a chance to upload until last night.

[goamules]

I'm wringing out a new lens, probably the fastest I have now. This F3.1 Voigtlander 6B is giving a very soft focus, pictorialist look wide open. Which is a look I've been trying for. On 5x7 Alum, about 4 secs. Tried to swing the back of my Century to get the far eyes in focus, but didn't get there.

Garrett
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[Jim Galli]

I'm wringing out a new lens, probably the fastest I have now. This F3.1 Voigtlander 6B is giving a very soft focus, pictorialist look wide open. Which is a look I've been trying for. On 5x7 Alum, about 4 secs. Tried to swing the back of my Century to get the far eyes in focus, but didn't get there.

Garrett

Wow. Impressive stuff. Beautifully crafted and very different from the norm. Congrats on the 6B. Had a 5B once but it got away.

[Mike Anderson]

That video (or multimedia thing) at the link below is really nice.

...Mike

crop from 8x10 negative, shot with 365mm commersial ektar @ f32 on fomapan 200



Petri Uutela, he is a finnish photographer.. here's some of his work on burn:

http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2...la-passers-by/

[Frank Petronio]

Just scanned, it was fogged from a bad bellows on an 8x10 C1. This is the uber-famous Meagan.