first lf portraits

[Jan Pedersen]

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

[Vaughn]

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

[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? :]

[David Brunell]

Excellent!

[cosmicexplosion]

yeah number two
great portrait well done.

reminds me a lot of the new romantic movement.

number one is good but i think even though, its eye is only in focus, it some how misses the mark. not sure, maybe its the condradiction, between, the hard eye and the soft face, i cant quiet put my finger on it, its like a highly focused eye, with no emotion behind it, which undermines what could work with better expression, or a more relaxed yielding pose, like e#2
which has a ton of emotion and symbology. would be a great record cover for a solo female artist. prints of that would sell like hot cakes i am sure.

i am not sure if what i say is true, as its late i am tired, and yet i cant sleep.

any way

i want to see some swans in your next ones. keep em coming.

-late night artists who should be painting

[cbk]

thanks once again.

[ImSoNegative]

Nice set of portraits

[Howard Tanger]

# 2 is the best. Congrats, Howard Tanger

[Ari]

Very good work; I see more and more good photography coming out of Poland.
I wish I could follow your blog, but my Polish isn't so good.

Keep it up!

[cbk]

thanks guys once again