June 2009 Portraits

[csant]

June is for summer, summer is for light…

Taken with a poor man's soft focus "lens", a plain and simple magnifying glass that gives a focal length of about 200mm and f/2.6… Light from a window, a beautiful evening far north, three nightlights for the highlights…

Charten 5x7, magnifying glass, Fomapan 100.

[eddie]

wow! june already....

all wet plate collodion images. 1st two are aluminum, last one is black jappaned steal. all 5x7.

the 1st i was having fun with adding some "extra" color to david...

second two are of JC. last ones was a bit over exposed....i just like the props.

[Miguel Coquis]

wow ! this is getting serious !!!
I got the impression I am going to start exploring alternatives
great work Eddie,
some more ?

[frank hoerauf]

Eddie that looks great, I think you win the Sally Mann award for the portrait of Coffer though. I think you need to work on your pouring skills a bit............haha...

[xmishx]

Fantastic images as of late. Hope to produce more to contribute this summer.


Chamonix 4x5 | Polaroid

[David Williams]

I just joined the forum and I'm just getting back into LF after several years. May I post an older portrait? Taken with a Calumet CC401, Caltar II E 210mm, Ektachrome 100.

Attachment 27022

[mandoman7]

A guitarmaker friend, www.ribbecke.com, playing a newly finished instrument.

Deardorff w/11 1/2 Verito.

[xavier deltell]

Tmax 100. Taken with Sinar P Rodenstock 240 f16

[Allen in Montreal]

Lots of nice work lately,

Xavier, I really like concept!

[Tim Meisburger]

My first portrait post. This is a scan from a very cheap flatbed scanner of an 8x10 enlargement of a Shanghai 100 4x5 negative, Caltar 210 at f6.8, 1/60. I got into LF last fall because my landscapes lacked something, but since then have become interested in the problem of making a portrait (as opposed to finding or capturing the decisive moment). This interest may also have something to do with the fact that I don't always have a landscape, but I do always have, more or less, willing models...

Shot in the living room with a cheap 500w halogen security light and two 250w photo flood bulbs I bought in a thrift shop. Please feel free to criticism or make suggestions for improvement, as I am here to learn. The corners are soft in the print, I think because I enlarge using a 127mm taking lens in a Graflarger. I could fix this, I guess, by burning them in.