September 2011 Portraits

[Allen in Montreal]

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What better way to demonstrate than to have him take part in the process.

8x10 Black Glass Ambrotype shot with a Cooke 18" Portrait for 8 seconds
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Yet another really nice one Craig.

[D-tach]

Barbara

Chamonix 45N2 - PS945 - Efke 25

[Randy]

Barbara
Chamonix 45N2 - PS945 - Efke 25

D-tach, I really like it. I have now been inspired to get a tad closer than I normally do. Thanks....
...and she looks like she can read my mind...

[Randy]

Don't know if this qualifies as a portrait. Mr. George Hairston wondered up to inquire what I was taking pictures of (neighborhood watch?). He proceeded to tell me some history of the local farm lands. He was kind enough to put his beer down long enough to pose. Promised him I would get him a print. Will drop one by tomorrow.

"Hairston's" came to Virginia back in the 1730's. I believe any blacks with that name can be traced back to slaves on the Hairston plantations.

Lighting was bad, on top of that, I underexposed by at least a stop


Arista EDU 100 5X7, Fuji W 180mm

Update - I took Mr. Hairston a copy of his picture. He invited me in to see his camera collection - a Polaroid One-Step, some sort of Brownie TLR with BOTH lenses missing, and the highlight - a Kodak Brownie 120 box camera mounted above his front porch light with a length of telephone wire coming from the back of it and running around the side of his house. That, he explained, was his fake surveillance/security camera.

[dupont07]

Impressive! My kudos to your pic. Could you pls share with us, how you set up the light?

Barbara

Chamonix 45N2 - PS945 - Efke 25

[ImSoNegative]

Barbara

Chamonix 45N2 - PS945 - Efke 25

that lighting is very cool

[ImSoNegative]

Shot in August, but scanned this week...
All Speed Graphic with standard Optar at f4.7, tMax 400 in 1+1 xtol

Love the tones in the first two images, nice work in all of them though

[grahamcase]

I'm going to guess, and be corrected later, maybe.

I think it's two soft boxes, one above and one below the subject. If you look at the catch lights in her eyes, you can see the larger reflection in the bottom, and just slightly see the reflection on the top of the pupil. Two catch lights, two lights (not always true, but I think it is here...)

Beautiful lighting and image. Love it!

Impressive! My kudos to your pic. Could you pls share with us, how you set up the light?

[dupont07]

[D-tach]

D-tach, I really like it. I have now been inspired to get a tad closer than I normally do. Thanks....
...and she looks like she can read my mind...

Impressive! My kudos to your pic. Could you pls share with us, how you set up the light?

that lighting is very cool

I'm going to guess, and be corrected later, maybe.

I think it's two soft boxes, one above and one below the subject. If you look at the catch lights in her eyes, you can see the larger reflection in the bottom, and just slightly see the reflection on the top of the pupil. Two catch lights, two lights (not always true, but I think it is here...)

Beautiful lighting and image. Love it!

Thx guys!

Correct Graham, big softbox under and small one above at -1EV. although there's not supposed to be a second catchlight I couldn't get close enough with the upper softbox. I don't like more than one catchlight.

Tom