August 2011 Portraits

[kev curry]

Awesome!!

[eduardtoader]

Gorgeous, Tom.

[northcarolinajack]

This is my great niece, Carol; location is an old corn crib in North Carolina. Carol will be a freshman at college this year.
Camera: The Kodak full plate I just finished restoring
Film: Ilford FP4 processed with HC110
Len: Kodak Ektar 12 inch

Jack

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[D-tach]

Thanks guys!
but nothing compares to those wet plates...

wonderful Craig!

Another one with the same lens wide open
the light was even duller here so no softness at all except for the cat

[eddie]

Thanks guys!
but nothing compares to those wet plates...

wonderful Craig!

Another one with the same lens wide open
the light was even duller here so no softness at all except for the cat

great one!

[Michael E]

the light was even duller here so no softness at all except for the cat

Your subjects are all at a very similar distance to the camera. To get more bokeh, you have to work with foreground-middleground-background. Leave some space between the people and the hedge.

Edit: OK, now I got it. This is not about bokeh, but about softness. Forget what I wrote...

Michael

[goamules]

This is my great niece, Carol; location is an old corn crib in North Carolina. Carol will be a freshman at college this year.
Camera: The Kodak full plate I just finished restoring
Film: Ilford FP4 processed with HC110
Len: Kodak Ektar 12 inch
...]

It's nice to see some of the old structures that remain in the old stomping ground of my youth, North Carolina. Nice shot.

[Andrey Donchev]

SAM

'Sam' is part of my 'As Faulty As We Are' series of work.
These subjects are often seen by society as having 'faults', yet those perceived faults often mask their incredible character. Sam and the others in this body of work never cease to amaze and inspire me.
Sam was born cross-eyed at birth, had numerous operations to try to correct the condition with one eye still drifting slightly to the side today.
During the shoot he said it's been one of the few times anyone has actually spoken to him about it as people generally don't want to risk offending him.
It is only a small part of the incredible person who is SAM.

8"x10" Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype on black glass. Shot with the Cooke 18" Soft Focus Portrait @ f5.6 for 9 seconds

Absolutely stunning! Welldone Craig!

A.

[Greg Miller]

SAM

'Sam' is part of my 'As Faulty As We Are' series of work.
These subjects are often seen by society as having 'faults', yet those perceived faults often mask their incredible character. Sam and the others in this body of work never cease to amaze and inspire me.
Sam was born cross-eyed at birth, had numerous operations to try to correct the condition with one eye still drifting slightly to the side today.
During the shoot he said it's been one of the few times anyone has actually spoken to him about it as people generally don't want to risk offending him.
It is only a small part of the incredible person who is SAM.

8"x10" Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype on black glass. Shot with the Cooke 18" Soft Focus Portrait @ f5.6 for 9 seconds

I really like this. The intensity in his eyes and gaze are moving. And the arm position reveals both strength and guardedness.

[Jay DeFehr]

Thanks guys!
but nothing compares to those wet plates...

wonderful Craig!

Another one with the same lens wide open
the light was even duller here so no softness at all except for the cat

I love this one. The composition is perfect; it looks like an equation, whereby the boy gets the gentleman's hat and the gentleman gets the boys shoes, by some function of the cat. Absolutely charming.