September 2012 portraits

[JosephBurke]

Wow! Some great work here already...
Impressive as usual, Alex.
Bracan very nice!
..and Luke, I love this one!

--Joe Burke

[D-tach]

Nice light Luke!

[SamReeves]

Super nice!!

[jcoldslabs]

I finally managed to borrow an 8x10 back for my Century 10A (I only have a 5x7 reducing back for it myself) and today got my reluctant wife to sit for a couple of test shots by a large window in our dining room. After shooting for over a year with a rickety (but much loved) Kodak 2D, it was a pleasure to have a big camera on a huge and solid stand that didn't budge a millimeter when inserting and removing the film holder. She moved just a bit during the two second exposure, but this helped soften the edges of the otherwise razor sharp process lens.

Century 10A, 19 3/4" Kodak Copying Ektanon focused at 32", 8x10 J&C 400 (expired 2002), two second exposure.




Jonathan

[Miguel Coquis]

...days getting short on September,
4x5" neg, diluted dev -3 with intermediary water bath...
...trying to save detail on dark zones (who knows what does this generates !!!),
light was particularly soft/warm !

"at the patio"

[northcarolinajack]

I just obtained a beauty of a large brass lens, a Voighlander 17 ½ F6 Extra Rapid Euryscope. Home alone, I set up on the kitchen table an old styrofoam wig holder (my wife’s from long ago), plus a straw hat from a trip to Grand Canyon several years ago. All necessary as a stand in since I had no model. I had made changes to my Packard Shutter box to mount the Voighlander so I could test the lens, shutter, plus the flash connection to the Packard.

Camera – Kodak Full Plate 6 ½ x 8 ½
Lens – Voighlander – Euryscope 17 ½ inch at F6
Flash – Nikon SB-80 by sync cord to Packard
Film – Ilford HP-4 process in HC110 at 50 to 1

Jack

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-H...09348465760954

[schmidtjas]

Tried using my alien bees for the first time with my 4x5. I think this is the 15th or so image I've shot and developed since taking the plunge into large format. I convinced my son to play dress up with some props I have for a photo booth I run at weddings on condition that I could take a photo of him haha

[Scott --]

A rare LF shot of my giggly, bouncy daughter.


img019 by Scott --, on Flickr

May reshoot this when the light's better - awful dark outside for ISO100. 4x5 Arista.EDU in HC-110 dil H. And my favorite little French Petzval.

[Scott --]

10x12 of the boy, using the City Sale 16" RR on FP4+.


Enough, Dad... by Scott --, on Flickr

[mbdiesel]

Very nice.