December 2015 Portraits

[SergeiR]

Lets start this on cheery note ;)

8x10, xray film, gundlach radar

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5802/23112749919_f03fdf8d7c_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BdoTjg)Childhood (https://flic.kr/p/BdoTjg) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr

[Tin Can]

Thank you.

[Jiri Vasina]

That's a way to start it. Great.

Jiri

[SergeiR]

and then something different ;)

8x10, xray, Dallmeyer 3D

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/23188252540_30d546221b_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA)Lana (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr

[Tin Can]

Great image of a brave lady!


and then something different ;)

8x10, xray, Dallmeyer 3D

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/23188252540_30d546221b_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA)Lana (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr

[SergeiR]

Thanks, Randy :)

[bracan]

Bundalo the actor
Polaroid 55 expired 4x5 negative on Speed Graphic and Aero Ektar wide open.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5681/23169062749_2bf2df6143_z.jpg

[Mark Sawyer]

Very nicely done, Bracan!

6x6-inch tintype with a 9.5-inch AT Thompson (Darlot) Magic Lantern lens...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/AT%20Thompson%20large%20s_zpsxrayfol0.jpg (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/Owen21k/media/AT%20Thompson%20large%20s_zpsxrayfol0.jpg.html)

[Tim Meisburger]

Nice Mark! For some reason I was shooting square format yesterday myself. I've been thinking about it for weeks, and finally made an adapter and mixed up some fresh chemistry on Friday. I'll post an image once the sun comes up.

Edit: Here is a digi-snap of this 5x5 plate. I shot it several times and some images were predominantly blueish, and some warmer. This one is closest.

Mark, I remember you saying that you don't mix soft and wet. In this case I did, as I was using the universal heliar (wide open) and forgot it was on full soft from a previous shoot (my wife, who is 53, likes here portraits soft...).

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l496/Tim_Meisburger/2a4152fc-b46e-4f04-b0f0-f28bd7be6bf3_zpssqj3c9n3.jpg (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/Tim_Meisburger/media/2a4152fc-b46e-4f04-b0f0-f28bd7be6bf3_zpssqj3c9n3.jpg.html)

[Stephane]

Zhau through a Pinkham and Smith.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/778/23428892325_caf12d057e_b.jpg

[baro-nite]

Larry, whom I met the other day at this historic house, which is part of the Eno River State Park. He was kind enough to pose for me, between telling me stories about the area and about the house, where he was born and raised. This is cropped a fair bit; I was trying for more of an environmental portrait, but didn't go wide enough to make it work.

4x5 FP4+, Caltar II-N 135

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/744/23561177816_ba8db8fe67_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BU2ciJ)
Larry (https://flic.kr/p/BU2ciJ) by Jeff (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fiat-lx/), on Flickr

[RSalles]

and then something different ;)

8x10, xray, Dallmeyer 3D


Beautiful shot Sergei, your Diva deserves it!

Cheers,

Renato

[SergeiR]

Beautiful shot Sergei, your Diva deserves it!

Cheers,

Renato

Thank you. She is awesome :)

[richardman]

Part of my Transformations:Cosplay project. F1 with Cooke PS945. Portra.

http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20151206-Scanned-1339.jpg

[RSalles]

Beautiful costume, colors that match, really nice,

Cheers,

Renato

[Christo.Stankulov]

Great

[DrTang]

http://www.government-traveler.com/examples/Savannah810.jpg

[Fangel]

A beautiful balance of the body. And a very beautiful expression on the face, a beautiful emotion !

Finally, me, I like very much this image.

[Alessandro Bocchi]

London - England - Christine on the Regents Canal holding her bag full of instant picture just shot with her pinhole camera.

- Camera: CHAMONIX 45-N2
- Lens: SCHNEIDER Super Angulon 90 1:5.6
- Exposure: N/A
- Film: FOMAPAN - 100 ASA - size 4x5"
- Developer: KODAK HC-110 - Dilution H (1+63) - 8 minutes at 22° C
- Stop: ILFORD ILFO STOP
- Fixer: ILFORD HYPAM FIXER
- Lightmeter: Gossen Lunasix 3 reading the incident light
- Lighting: Ambient light only

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/740/23270576631_440bd40369_h.jpg

[aapov27]

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/718/23431070690_35eae4e1a6_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BGwmZq)img234-1 (https://flic.kr/p/BGwmZq) by Alex Povaliy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/povaliy/), on Flickr

My first photo of LF.
Wista 45;
Sinar 210 mm f/5,6
Fomapan 200
LC29 (1+19)

[Corran]

I was out on the swamp boardwalk today and came upon a young lady with some kids. She was snapping some photos with a little DSLR of some sort. I was patiently waiting for them to be finished but she turned around and asked if I knew how to work her camera! Of course I must look like someone who knows how to operate a camera, with my big 4x5...

Anyway, I helped her with her problem and showed her how to use exposure compensation. Afterwards I asked if I she would like me to take a couple of photos of her and the kids, and I would email her the images. I was trying to burn some film anyway and I don't often have the opportunity to take portraits, so I was happy to oblige. Here is one of them:

Chamonix 45n1, Voigtlander 21cm f/4.5 APO Lanthar @ f/11, T-Max 100, FX-39:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/grandbay-2920s.jpg

[alex from holland]

Mario
11 x11" tintype.
16"Hermagis petzval at 4.5

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/162060954.jpg

[BrianShaw]

The story is as nice as the photo, Bryan. What a good guy you are!

[Corran]

Thanks Brian, I try :). Plus the Lanthar just begs to be used for portraits.

Here is the other sheet, fresh off the scanner. Portra 160VC this time:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/grandbay-2928ss.jpg

[Jim Jones]

Aapov77, That's a fine start. It is non-traditional in a way that refreshes our ideas about portraiture.

[nede]

"White Rabbit"
13x18cm ferrotype
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3865384/img1045800.jpg

[DrTang]

5x7 / 240 heliar @f5.6

http://www.government-traveler.com/examples/57.jpg

[Peter Lewin]

DrTang: yes, youth and beauty are fleeting. Reminds me of Dutch paintings with the same symbolism.

Corran: those are great family portraits, especially the first, the B&W. The mom should hang those on the wall.

[DrTang]

I suppose...I just had the skull sitting around and she picked it up

I been wanting to do something like those 20's and 30's actor portraits where they are holding 'poor Yorrick's' skull all dramatic like- - you may have seen one like that

[D-tach]

Creamy Dr Tang! Nice light!

http://Tomkeymeulen.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v42/p1836023497-5.jpg

Deardorff - Cooke PS945 - HP5+ - XTOL

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/img001b2.jpg
JP, December 2015
Tachihara Field Camera, 240mm Fujinon A
4x5 TMY, D-23

[ScottPhotoCo]

Head shot for actor Linda De la Fonteijne. 4x5 Graflex RB Auto + Cooke 10.5" + Ilford FP4+ XTOL 1:1.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/641/23690821552_641f0d4e65_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/C6tDSy)Portrait of Linda (https://flic.kr/p/C6tDSy) by Tim Scott (https://www.flickr.com/photos/themdidit/), on Flickr

[jp]

JP, December 2015
Tachihara Field Camera, 240mm Fujinon A
4x5 TMY, D-23

Thanks Ken!

My wife hates that hat as it's so tall. I think it's fun.

[jp]

Head shot for actor Linda De la Fonteijne. 4x5 Graflex RB Auto + Cooke 10.5" + Ilford FP4+ XTOL 1:1.


Very nice! Amazing what a hundred year old camera can still do!

[Randy]

Very nice! Amazing what a hundred year old camera can still do!

Agree, and if it wasn't an RB "Auto", we could give Tim a little credit also :)

[ScottPhotoCo]

Agree, and if it wasn't an RB "Auto", we could give Tim a little credit also :)

Seriously, hand holding 4x5 feels like cheating. :)

Tim

[nede]

I met Ambre today, before she came back to her fashion shooting i made a plate
13x18 ferrotype
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3865384/img1048-800.jpg

[Michael Cienfuegos]

Seriously, hand holding 4x5 feels like cheating. :)

Tim

Hand holding is the charm of using these old SLR's. :)

m

[richardman]

And I am back! Transformations:Cosplay project, Mea as Furiosa

http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20151006-Scanned-1261.jpg

[jaymus]

Here are two shots from a few weeks ago. I went out to the local square and accosted a few interesting people to take their portraits. These are the first two large format shots I've taken since college. This Norma is a wonderful piece of workmanship.

Sinar Norma, Porta 160, 150mm Schneider

http://payload426.cargocollective.com/1/20/658945/10820472/Sandy-viewing_670.jpg

http://payload426.cargocollective.com/1/20/658945/10820472/Ravi-viewing_670.jpg

[jesse]

Ebony 4x5, Steinheil Orthostigmat 18cm f6.0, FP4, HC-110
Visit Korea with my daughter last week.
http://baidu.xitek.com/pics/201512/149/14934/14934_1450976942.jpg

[Fangel]

Here are two shots from a few weeks ago. I went out to the local square and accosted a few interesting people to take their portraits. These are the first two large format shots I've taken since college. This Norma is a wonderful piece of workmanship.

Sinar Norma, Porta 160, 150mm Schneider

http://payload426.cargocollective.com/1/20/658945/10820472/Sandy-viewing_670.jpg

http://payload426.cargocollective.com/1/20/658945/10820472/Ravi-viewing_670.jpg


Magnificent alive portraits, magnificent!

[viablex1]

Ebony 4x5, Steinheil Orthostigmat 18cm f6.0, FP4, HC-110
Visit Korea with my daughter last week.
http://baidu.xitek.com/pics/201512/149/14934/14934_1450976942.jpg

absolutely stunning

[RSalles]

Last 2 top notch, elegant people, well dressed, like when the "artist" disappear and the only thing left is the subject. Also, when the subject of the portrait is the main subject instead the lens used,

Cheers,

Renato

[Andy Eads]

I was out on the swamp boardwalk today and came upon a young lady with some kids. She was snapping some photos with a little DSLR of some sort. I was patiently waiting for them to be finished but she turned around and asked if I knew how to work her camera! Of course I must look like someone who knows how to operate a camera, with my big 4x5...

Anyway, I helped her with her problem and showed her how to use exposure compensation. Afterwards I asked if I she would like me to take a couple of photos of her and the kids, and I would email her the images. I was trying to burn some film anyway and I don't often have the opportunity to take portraits, so I was happy to oblige. Here is one of them:

Chamonix 45n1, Voigtlander 21cm f/4.5 APO Lanthar @ f/11, T-Max 100, FX-39:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/grandbay-2920s.jpg

The mom and daughter will treasure this! And with your Grafmatic no less.

[ImSoNegative]

and then something different ;)

8x10, xray, Dallmeyer 3D

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/23188252540_30d546221b_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA)Lana (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr


Beautiful!!

[AlexGard]

8x10 ambrotype of Jerzy, 1st Engineer onboard icebreaker RSV Aurora Australis

sorry I don't have a good scanner here.

143991

[tigger_six]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/706d56d33e4a36a2d95c183728975289/tumblr_nym8y0zkfA1t0pabno1_640.jpg

[jesse]

absolutely stunning

Thanks !

[jesse]

Mario
11 x11" tintype.
16"Hermagis petzval at 4.5

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/162060954.jpg

Excellence, I love all your photos very much!

[Corran]

As I mentioned here (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?44249-Large-Format-Landscapes&p=1297509&viewfull=1#post1297509), I recently picked up a little Rodenstock Trinar 13.5cm lens for all of $25, and shot some today with it. I wanted to try it on a wide portrait and my girlfriend obliged. This is at f/6.8, and the full-rez scan is quite soft, but with a small enlargement it might be okay. At a more reasonable f/stop it is much better, but it was pretty dark in the woods. Fuji 160S film:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/bankslaketrinar-2869ss.jpg

Also, thanks to Andy Eads for the above comments.

[billie williams]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/706d56d33e4a36a2d95c183728975289/tumblr_nym8y0zkfA1t0pabno1_640.jpg
Beautiful light and nice hands too. I really like this.

[jp]

As I mentioned here (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?44249-Large-Format-Landscapes&p=1297509&viewfull=1#post1297509), I recently picked up a little Rodenstock Trinar 13.5cm lens for all of $25, and shot some today with it. I wanted to try it on a wide portrait and my girlfriend obliged. This is at f/6.8, and the full-rez scan is quite soft, but with a small enlargement it might be okay. At a more reasonable f/stop it is much better, but it was pretty dark in the woods. Fuji 160S film:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/bankslaketrinar-2869ss.jpg

Also, thanks to Andy Eads for the above comments.

That lens will rock in B&W, wider open, at dusk or early light, with those branches in the background sorta dim.

[chrism]

Still snowing here, so out came the 10x8, 450mm/f9, HP5+, BTZS tubes, strobe, CFT light, Uncle Tom Cobbley an' all:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1652/23401935604_54a1f7e1e4_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BDX39m)
Thomas (https://flic.kr/p/BDX39m) by chrism229 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrism229/), on Flickr

Chris

[Corran]

jp, I can see how that would appeal to you! Truth be told, I had no b&w film loaded, so I just grabbed a few QuickLoad sheets to play with. The out-of-focus areas are a bit busy for me here. But I will definitely be shooting with this lens more (and in b&w of course!).

[mathieu Bauwens]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5653/23940551721_b8874e91de_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CtxzX8)1-jour-d'école (https://flic.kr/p/CtxzX8) by Mathieu Bauwens (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieubauwens/), sur Flickr

First day at school

Kodak 2D 8x10
Fuji 300mm
Bergger Pancro 400

[RSalles]

Mathieu,

She's so nice,
Congrats for the school, it's a happy, and terrifying moment for the small that event,

Cheers,

Renato

[Jim C.]

Tigger_six,
Lovely photo, any specifications on it ?
Lens, film ?

[gimenosaiz]

I was out on the swamp boardwalk today and came upon a young lady with some kids. She was snapping some photos with a little DSLR of some sort. I was patiently waiting for them to be finished but she turned around and asked if I knew how to work her camera! Of course I must look like someone who knows how to operate a camera, with my big 4x5...

Anyway, I helped her with her problem and showed her how to use exposure compensation. Afterwards I asked if I she would like me to take a couple of photos of her and the kids, and I would email her the images. I was trying to burn some film anyway and I don't often have the opportunity to take portraits, so I was happy to oblige. Here is one of them:

Chamonix 45n1, Voigtlander 21cm f/4.5 APO Lanthar @ f/11, T-Max 100, FX-39:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/grandbay-2920s.jpg

Oh! Great ... what a wonderful and unexpected gift !!!
Cheers!

[gimenosaiz]

Mario
11 x11" tintype.
16"Hermagis petzval at 4.5

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/162060954.jpg

Another gem ... !!!! Thanks for sharing!
Regards

[gimenosaiz]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/706d56d33e4a36a2d95c183728975289/tumblr_nym8y0zkfA1t0pabno1_640.jpg

Wonderful, delicate colors and mood !!!
Regards!

[gimenosaiz]

and then something different ;)

8x10, xray, Dallmeyer 3D

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/23188252540_30d546221b_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA)Lana (https://flic.kr/p/Bk4RBA) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr

Wow! I love this !!!
Saludos

[gimenosaiz]

Well, it's a bit late ... but Happy Christmas ;-)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1449/23970480371_af199de3ab_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CwbYGk)
¡feliz Navidad ... ! (https://flic.kr/p/CwbYGk) by Antonio Gimeno (https://www.flickr.com/photos/antoniogb/), on Flickr

Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
Kodak Aeroektar 178/2.5
HP5+ | HC-110(d) 6'30"
Epson 4990/ Epson Scan
LR 5.7

Happy New Year!

[Jiri Vasina]

For me it's fantastic image, Antonio.

[gimenosaiz]

For me it's fantastic image, Antonio.
Thank you, Jiri :-)

Un abrazo,
Antonio

[Pawlowski6132]

And I am back! Transformations:Cosplay project, Mea as Furiosa

http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20151006-Scanned-1261.jpg

Huh???

[richardman]

Huh???

I have been doing a long term project of costumers in and out of their costumes taken with 4x5 film. You can see the work in progress slideshow here, it should explain somewhat:
http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/TransformationsCosplay-Portfolio/

I am also doing another portrait project of "Worldbuilders" (mainly authors) of Science Fiction and Fantasy:
http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/WorldbuildersSFnF-Portfolio/

[OMU]

Don't know if this is a wrong tread for a bromoil portrait?
Bromoil on liquide emulsion
Gandolfi 8x10, reduction back 4x5
Fomapan 100 @ 50 in xtol

http://oddmagneulvund.no/onewebstatic/49adab9d5e-Hjemmeside-Portretter%20med%20bromoil-E_BromDes15_0001.jpg

[scheinfluger_77]

It probably should go in the January portrait thread, but that aside... That's a very nice treatment.

[Luke79]

Press Graflex 5x7 / Pentac 8"

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/160124/s257e6t3.jpg

[Miguel Coquis]

Hey Luke,
link doesn't show pic !

[Luke79]

i hope now its fixed :)

[Hugo Zhang]

Luke,

I like this a lot. :)

[Miguel Coquis]

Press Graflex 5x7 / Pentac 8"

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/160124/s257e6t3.jpg

Really sweet !
Bravo Luke !
Any others ?