August 2012 Portraits

[Bill Burk]

Bride to-be, Heisler Park, Laguna Beach

I was going to call this La Quinceañera, but my daughter says she heard her say she's getting married.

1/300th f/16 with lenshood
TMY-2 D-76 1:1 13min
Galerie 2 Dektol 1:2 3min, warm KRST 1:20 about 5min

I want to add some criticism because I posted a picture of a woman with a tree growing out of her head. I tried to avoid it when I shot, and I tried to suppress it in the print. But it's there and I can't do anything about it now. Actually, I can but I'm four prints in and that's where I stop. Next time, if I print that shot again, I will use New Coccine. When I was considering New Coccine originally I thought it would be totally illogical to have a palm tree frond without a trunk, so I didn't retouch the neg at all. After looking at the dry and finished print, I realized I only needed to lighten (not eliminate) the tree. Then it would only look like atmospheric haze.

[jammo]

Louise

Attachment 78408
Razzle 900 & Sironar N 150mm, HP5+ @ 800, R09 1+50
scan from a print on Ilford MG IV RC

Glad to see you are putting it to good use!

[mathieu Bauwens]

Thank you Jammo.

It's a pleasure to use.