first lf portraits

[cbk]

I came to 4x5 through the 6x6. That's why I crop my latest works. I've tried 4x5 frames but couldnt get with it, so I made mask on my rear standard, and my F2 now shoots 4"x4" squares ;]

experimental prints:
Very short (really short=>20secs) rinse after fixing and bleaching during sepia toning caused funny streaks which made those shots look like they were really old.





and here is 4x5 frame that I shot earlier, with no experiments

all pics were taken with symmar s 300/5,6 and all of them were contact printed on expired in 1985 ORWO BN1 paper, and then toned with sepia and selenium toners.

[Petzval Paul]

I really like all of these but the first one is especially powerful! The chocolatey sepia tones are really rich, which works well with these shots. The square format is cool, too!

[Jay DeFehr]

cbk, I'd say you landed in LF on your feet! Lovely work!

[David Aimone]

Excellent work and great toning!

[cbk]

thanks guys

[OMU]

Al tree are great, #2 is my favorite

[Myxine]

Oh my goodness. I can only wish that my first portraits will be that good. In fact, if i'm that good in a few years, i'll be very happy.
Congratulations.

Can i ask 2 newbie questions?
To have that kind of blur, you tilted the lens but i was wondering wich way, and how much of an angle? My guess is a front standard forward tilt but i'm not sure (obviously i'm just starting)

Did you use strobes for the lighting or a "constant" source of light? I do have strobes but i'm wondering how i could fire them during the exposure.

[cbk]

Thanks guys once again,

To have that kind of blur, you tilted the lens but i was wondering wich way, and how much of an angle? My guess is a front standard forward tilt but i'm not sure (obviously i'm just starting)

Yes the front standard was tilted forward. Cant remember the exact angle but I think it was about 25~30deg.

Did you use strobes for the lighting or a "constant" source of light? I do have strobes but i'm wondering how i could fire them during the exposure.

I used 3 strobes. One on top, over the model's head, slightly right, second one under the model's chin, slightly left (but you can use a silver reflector instead of this strobe) and the third one behing the model's gead to put some light on the background.

Wonderful! Obvious that you may be new to LF, but not to photography!

Really I've been shooting since 2002, but seriously with some knowledge about framing and lightning since 2007. I started with canon eos 300, then moved to digital canons d60 and 5d. Then moved to film again with bronicas sqai, ec and s2a. The last one was my favourite, had tilts. I even learnt how to fix them, because in my counrty there was (is) no any place it could be fixed if something happened with the camera. You can see on my blog some (in polish) actions with few s2a bronicas, as it had been flooded I was able to fix them, and people stared sending me their cameras, even from the US.
I moved to LF because of full movements (Tilt, shift, swing) that LF can offer to me. And of course the bigger size of negatives. I am very impressed by the details I can achieve and see on larger negative.

What a great start, you have a bright future ahead of you as a portrait photographer.
I like them all.

maybe if I lived in US or other more normal country ;]
Anyone want to buy my prints? :]

[Tom J McDonald]

Very nice.

[dsim]

Very nice portraits. Love the tones.