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Mark Sawyer
1-Sep-2009, 19:41
Well, somebody had to start the thread...

From my new Cooke 16" f/4.5, wide open with the adjustment set to full soft:

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/Cooke16b.jpg

more on the lens here:
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=52592

Jim Fitzgerald
1-Sep-2009, 19:51
Mark, I'd say that's a keeper! You know I mean the lens! Beautiful model and image. Nice way to start the month.

Jim

Rick Tardiff
1-Sep-2009, 20:09
fantastic portrait! whats your lighting Mark?

Mark Sawyer
1-Sep-2009, 20:15
fantastic portrait! whats your lighting Mark?

Just a single old Novatron strobe @400 watt/seconds bounced out of an umbrella, with a light-ish wall not too far away on the other side. I've played with more elaborate set ups, but simplicity speaks well. Especially with older, softer lenses...

And thanks, guys! :)

Mike1234
1-Sep-2009, 22:04
Mark, you may need to change your sig. Maybe the Verito has been trumped? :)

eddie
2-Sep-2009, 04:38
damn mark! pretty darn nice! i guess you hit it with this lens. love the photo.

one thing bugs me....it seems the focus is on the front of the shawl just missing her eyes....maybe she moved. still very nice though do not get me wrong.

Jim Galli
2-Sep-2009, 06:49
Beautiful Mark! I'm long on Cooke's and short on pretty faces.

jack_hui
2-Sep-2009, 07:06
8x10,RDPIII, Petzval Len (unknown brand)

Sone light leak at the corner.
http://www.pbase.com/jack_hui/image/116803670.jpg

Frank Petronio
2-Sep-2009, 07:22
That is a great one Mark (and all of these are quite nice).

goamules
2-Sep-2009, 12:58
Mark, stellar, what a shot!

Here is mine of similarly nice subject. Halfplate collodion with 12" Voigtlander petzval.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3872419697_76ce7e5d5e.jpg

And nice color shot with a petzval, Jack!


Garrett
photos on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsphotos/)

Armin Seeholzer
2-Sep-2009, 15:00
Here is one from me naturall light, woman at work!

Burke & James 8x10 TMY 400 Universal Heliar at f 11 SF on 3 1/15 sec
Souped the first time in Rodinal just for testing!

Cheers Armin

George Kara
2-Sep-2009, 16:44
The opposite of those wonderful beautiful images you fine photographers create.

Full Moon.

polaroid 51, Cooke ps945.

ljb0904
4-Sep-2009, 08:43
Hmm, does this count as a portrait? Round 2 of my black & white attempts
Chamonix 4x5, Fuji 180/f9, Ilford FP4+, Ilfosol S 1:9

Having trouble with streaks (although they're hard to see). Does the presoak help with that? I'm using an HP Combiplan. Any tips are more than appreciated, I'm learning as I go!

http://thewildlight.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/por2009_002_04.jpg

chachahavana
7-Sep-2009, 10:39
Hi Mark
Bravo, this is a wonderful image !
ChaCha

chachahavana
7-Sep-2009, 10:42
Hi Garrett
Great feel, love the wet plate images !
ChaCha

George Kara
7-Sep-2009, 10:45
Trying to learn to use the P & S. Any advice on how to tame this thing is greatly encouraged. 4x5 (I know should be 8x10). Maco ortho 25, P&S II http://0168946.netsolhost.com/images/737_j090509bp-copy.gif18 f6

Jiri Vasina
7-Sep-2009, 23:55
Does this qualify as portrait too?


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/linie/p13x18-255_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=1655)

Dolls

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 300mm, Zeiss Softar II filter, 13×18cm, Fomapan 100, Rodinal.

stehei
8-Sep-2009, 00:17
Both taken on board of a large clipper, great ship,
not easy to take pictures with an 8*10 on board of a rocking
boat, including wind force 6, but we managed sort of ;)

regards

stefan

PViapiano
8-Sep-2009, 01:37
Stefan...love that first one. Beautiful composition, perfect pose, good attitude...this one says a lot!

stehei
8-Sep-2009, 02:19
thanks pviapiano!

creep
8-Sep-2009, 02:26
my friend Andy.

Sinar P2 + SK S 300mm @ F:8

Kerik Kouklis
8-Sep-2009, 09:30
A couple of new portraits from this past sunday. Both are 8x10 collodion on aluminum made with a Derogy Portrait Petzval.

http://www.kerik.com/gayle_9-6-09.jpg
Gayle and Broken Glass

http://www.kerik.com/molly_9-6-09.jpg
Molly Likes the Water

George Kara
8-Sep-2009, 11:05
[QUOTE=Kerik Kouklis;505597]A couple of new portraits from this past sunday. Both are 8x10 collodion on aluminum made with a Derogy Portrait Petzval.

Wonderful images Kerik

Jim Galli
8-Sep-2009, 11:11
A new one for me. A self portrait with my newest grandson, Ryker. Ryker's mommy sqeezed the bulb at the 'decisive moment'.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Pinkham-Smith/15SAseriesII/BrnsTwnJimRyker15PS_1s.jpg

Pinkham Smith Semi Achromatic Series I 15" wide open on 8X10

Asher Kelman
8-Sep-2009, 12:43
A new one for me. A self portrait with my newest grandson, Ryker. Ryker's mommy sqeezed the bulb at the 'decisive moment'.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Pinkham-Smith/15SAseriesII/BrnsTwnJimRyker15PS_1s.jpg

Pinkham Smith Semi Achromatic Series I 15" wide open on 8X10]

Jim,

I love this picture for its sense of family and realness. It's snapshot, for sure but it it is more important than that. As a grandfather, it's about me to. It sort of celebrates a class of photographer grandfathers and so it reflects us as a group. We can identify with you. We think of the new future of this child and all the great stuff you have to share with him.

I too am a fan of the soft focus and find this very pleasant. I do have a question about the plane of focus as the wine bottle in the background is so well defined.

Asher

Asher Kelman
8-Sep-2009, 12:47
A couple of new portraits from this past sunday. Both are 8x10 collodion on aluminum made with a Derogy Portrait Petzval.



http://www.kerik.com/molly_9-6-09.jpg

Kerik Kouklis Molly Likes the Water

Kerik,

This picture surprises me. It's dark portrait, but arrestingly happy! One has to examine inside it and one is drawn in to a new world. Gradually, the water from the hose gets stronger and the splashes around her become very real and one can feel her joy. Is this 8x10 glass plate? In any case, I experienced something new and enjoyable in the subtle nature of this medium. Thanks for sharing.

Asher

Jim Galli
8-Sep-2009, 14:13
I do have a question about the plane of focus as the wine bottle in the background is so well defined.

Asher


Excellent question and one that troubled the first generation of soft focus folk. This lens gets some of it's softness from being partially non achromatic. I focused on my daughter and did a portrait of her in this position (she's 1000 times prettier but I don't have that piece of film developed yet---it was luck of the draw last evening). I recall moving near focus right up to the ragged edge which is what you do because chemical focus and visual focus are best traded off that way. Still in this case the far focus won out. Little by little as you use these you get closer and closer on that fudge factor. This one seems acceptable but I could have moved the focus out in front of the subject just a bit more.

Kerik Kouklis
8-Sep-2009, 14:37
Asher, thanks for your thoughtful comments. This is made on an aluminum plate, not glass.

Asher Kelman
8-Sep-2009, 15:15
Asher, thanks for your thoughtful comments. This is made on an aluminum plate, not glass.
My ignorance, Kerik!

I imagined you used a glass plate and then did the collodion on Aluminum as a printed exposure. I guess now it wouldn't work that way at all!

Asher

nelsonfotodotcom
8-Sep-2009, 16:09
Kerik and Garrett - such lovely images!



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3872419697_76ce7e5d5e.jpg




http://www.kerik.com/molly_9-6-09.jpg
Molly Likes the Water

Philippe Grunchec
9-Sep-2009, 00:38
Kerik, your photo reminds me of Alfred Stieglitz' Ellen Koeniger at Lake George (1916): great shot(s)!

bluenote
9-Sep-2009, 02:15
Speed Graphic handheld with Kodak Tri-X 320, Metz CT 45, processed in ID11 for 10 min.



http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/45_52.jpg

George Kara
9-Sep-2009, 10:21
Great shot. Beautiful vintage bike. Is that a Ducati Diana?

chachahavana
9-Sep-2009, 12:54
Wonderful picture Jim, lovely to see you and your grandson !

Jiri Vasina
9-Sep-2009, 22:38
http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/lide/p13x18-256_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=1657)

Jana

My wife. She only rarely cooperates enough for me to take a photo of her (there is always something more important, or something preventing her from being the model...)

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 300mm, Zeiss Softar filter, 13×18cm, Fomapan 100, Rodinal.

Jiri

Asher Kelman
10-Sep-2009, 01:10
Speed Graphic handheld with Kodak Tri-X 320, Metz CT 45, processed in ID11 for 10 min.



http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/45_52.jpg

Bluenight,

Splendid image of the rider and the bike. A question, the relatively even illumination and focus to the edges: is that a fashion that has crept in due to influence of 35 mm digital photography with obsession on lack of vignetting and pixel peeping for clairity to the last mm of the frame?

I see this a lot with modern LF, excluding the followers of Jim Galli and his lantern, $hitpipe and soft focus lenses. When did all this happen? After all, you could bring in the corners and edges in a few moments but you don't!

Asher

cjbroadbent
10-Sep-2009, 08:13
... is that a fashion that has crept in due to influence of 35 mm digital photography with obsession on lack of vignetting and pixel peeping for clairity to the last mm of the frame?...

I was taught that the camera should be invisible. "Shoot it [Large Format] like a Leica", "Keep camera-work out of the shot", "Don't intrude". That means stopping down and lots of light. Or rather, lots of modulated light. Because lighting is all there is left to create some mood.
This is done with 2 flash heads and lots of black paper on 5x7.

goamules
10-Sep-2009, 08:43
Thanks Nelson. The doorbell rang right in the middle of the 15 second exposure. I think I saw her blink, but she holds still very well.

George Kara
10-Sep-2009, 11:45
I was taught that the camera should be invisible. "Shoot it [Large Format] like a Leica", "Keep camera-work out of the shot", "Don't intrude". That means stopping down and lots of light. Or rather, lots of modulated light. Because lighting is all there is left to create some mood.
This is done with 2 flash heads and lots of black paper on 5x7.

Woah a chefs hat in the w/c?

George Kara
10-Sep-2009, 11:46
Jiri

Not speaking about the photo, but I love your wifes unique smile. :)

Asher Kelman
10-Sep-2009, 12:24
I was taught that the camera should be invisible. "Shoot it [Large Format] like a Leica", "Keep camera-work out of the shot", "Don't intrude". That means stopping down and lots of light. Or rather, lots of modulated light. Because lighting is all there is left to create some mood.
This is done with 2 flash heads and lots of black paper on 5x7.

As soon as you choose a lens, f stop and position, you have made choices that define you as much as your picture, so we always intrude. Still, I do like your picture, especially the asymmetry of the light ... and the chef's hat! If this was lit evenly, it would be just a snapshot of lesser interest.

You yourself intervene in the picture when you are artistic or wish for certain effects so the lens sees in a way other photographers eyes do not. For example, "that means stopping down", might be a normal sequitur for your work. Still, that hardly refers to most everyone. For sure, habitual stopping down, in particular, would differentiate you from a lot of LF and 35 mm photographers who hardly ever do that. Jim Galli would be out in the cold and the little green men that bring him soft focus lenses would be stuck with a lot of inventory on their little green hands.

Without personal intrusion there's nothing but haphazard snapshots. Your work, for sure is not like that!

Asher

cjbroadbent
11-Sep-2009, 02:12
Oh, the hat in the loo. The client is known for kitchens (Boffi). This was an excursion.
I have plenty more stupid things not in my portfolio.

bluenote
11-Sep-2009, 04:35
Jiri

Not speaking about the photo, but I love your wifes unique smile. :)

I love it too, but she is my sister-in-law. :-)))))))

bluenote
11-Sep-2009, 04:47
http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/lide/p13x18-256_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=1657)

Jana

My wife. She only rarely cooperates enough for me to take a photo of her (there is always something more important, or something preventing her from being the model...)

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 300mm, Zeiss Softar filter, 13×18cm, Fomapan 100, Rodinal.

Jiri

Jiri, maybe she is afraid of your BIG tool. :-))))))) But seriously, this one is very nice. I can read from her face : just be quick.. there is something I have to do RIGHT NOW !....

bluenote
12-Sep-2009, 08:15
http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/45_bw_6.jpg

Asher Kelman
12-Sep-2009, 09:08
http://www.hauserphotography.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/45_bw_6.jpg

Hi Bluenote,

There's an intimate presence to your picture. I find this quite arresting. Is this using a wide angle lens up close?

Asher

chachahavana
12-Sep-2009, 10:28
Haha, do you think I should post this in " In Galli Style " instead !?

Voigtlander & Son's, 5B, 9 1/6 inches, f/3.14 on Chamonix 8x10, Velvia 100
Remember his "Dirty Truck" series !?
Thanks to Jim again for offering this wonderful lens to me.

ChaCha
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/chachahavana/popular-interesting/


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3906181503_a4f1e7f52a_o.jpg

Joe Forks
12-Sep-2009, 15:57
wow man! I love it!


Haha, do you think I should post this in " In Galli Style " instead !?

Voigtlander & Son's, 5B, 9 1/6 inches, f/3.14 on Chamonix 8x10, Velvia 100
Remember his "Dirty Truck" series !?
Thanks to Jim again for offering this wonderful lens to me.

ChaCha
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/chachahavana/popular-interesting/


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3906181503_a4f1e7f52a_o.jpg

MIke Sherck
12-Sep-2009, 20:07
Joe, you're the first guy who's used a lens like this in a way which makes sense to me. Fabulous!

Jan Pedersen
12-Sep-2009, 20:17
Ohhh Yeah. ChaCha, nice collection on your Flicker link too..

Ben Syverson
12-Sep-2009, 20:27
I love the combination of "Galli Swirl" and Velvia's neon tones! It's doing something crazy to my brain, and I like it!

PViapiano
12-Sep-2009, 23:53
Beautiful, chacha...love your photostream, too.

What are you scanning with...?

bluenote
13-Sep-2009, 00:41
Hi Bluenote,

There's an intimate presence to your picture. I find this quite arresting. Is this using a wide angle lens up close?

Asher

Hi Asher,

it has been taken with 135mm Graflex lens.

jb7
13-Sep-2009, 02:17
Lovely...

Frank Petronio
13-Sep-2009, 05:33
Color Galli w a good looking girl instead of some grizzly old man. Well done!

chachahavana
13-Sep-2009, 08:43
Thank you veru much for the lovely comments !!

Hi Joe Forks, thanks a lot !!
Hi Kike Sherck, thank you very much !!
Hi Jan, glad that you like my Flickr stream too !
Hi bensyverson, haha, I don't know if Jim likes that !?
Hi PViaPiano, Thank you and happy that you like my flickr stream ! I can with a Epson 750
Hi jb7, thank you !
Hi Framk Petronio, Haha, I think so too !!

Mark Sawyer
13-Sep-2009, 08:58
Thank you veru much for the lovely comments !!

Every one of those "lovely comments" was well-deserved, and I add my compliments as well.

Bravo! :)

Jim Galli
13-Sep-2009, 09:17
Beautifully executed Cha Cha, and well deserved praise.

willwilson
13-Sep-2009, 11:24
The day of our wedding 8-29-09.

Our wedding photographer pushed the shutter release but I set it up and worked the holders. The photographer was totally fascinated with the 8x10. He had never shot with lf before.

This is a scan from a super quick RC contact print I did right before my wife and I left for our honeymoon. It was still a little wet when I put it in the scanner. She couldn't believe I managed to make a print while we were running around like crazy trying to get out of town!

It was originally supposed to be a full body portrait but I guess something got moved between set-up and the actual photo. Cambo 8x10 with a fuji 300mm f5.6, Delta 100, f11.

Asher Kelman
13-Sep-2009, 11:53
The day of our wedding 8-29-09.

Our wedding photographer pushed the shutter release but I set it up and worked the holders. The photographer was totally fascinated with the 8x10. He had never shot with lf before.

Will,

The pose is full of sensitivity and quiet joy and promises. Congratulations. The Bokeh behind helps isolate the kiss well. As for the lower cutoff, it actually is a good thing! The bottom of the dress, train and shoes are detailed and made beautiful. By removing them, the center of interest is the kiss and your arm calmly by your side.

Asher

Wet scanning with water? How did you get rid of bubbles?

cameraeccentric
13-Sep-2009, 13:56
Hello friends,
As always, we are absolutely stunned by the beautiful work you all do. Mark, wonderful photo. Jim, great photo of family (your grandson is adorable). We want to thank those of you who shared your catalogs with us and let you all know we have added another 20+ catalogs to our info section. Please feel free to take a look and continue sharing:-)

Listening to all of your passion and seeing these beautiful works of creative expression makes what we do a joy. We are blessed!
Take care
Seth and Laura Broder
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/info.html

benrains
13-Sep-2009, 14:14
Two scans from yesterday. The first was shot on 8x10 with a Folmer and Graflex Century 10A with a Seroco Portrait Lens Series II f-5 6½×8½ 12"... a.k.a. Wollensak Series A Portrait Lens and the Wollensak Vesta. Technically with mine it's the front and rear groups of that lens wedged into a discarded can from some Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas. (I don't have the barrel or aperture for the lens.) Exposure 1/2s @ f/5 on Arista EDU Ultra 100.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3915806109_54ce4a2866_o.jpg

The second was taken on the same camera, but with a Carl Zeiss Jena 45cm f:9 Apo-Tessar. Exposure 2 s @ f/11 on Arista EDU Ultra 100.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3915910617_db35cfdc3e_o.jpg

willwilson
13-Sep-2009, 14:49
Will,

The pose is full of sensitivity and quiet joy and promises. Congratulations. The Bokeh behind helps isolate the kiss well. As for the lower cutoff, it actually is a good thing! The bottom of the dress, train and shoes are detailed and made beautiful. By removing them, the center of interest is the kiss and your arm calmly by your side.

Asher

Wet scanning with water? How did you get rid of bubbles?

Thanks Asher! I agree.

unrealalex
13-Sep-2009, 23:22
http://www.ambrotype.ru/wet-plate-collodion/portraits/images/ambro-alice001.jpg (http://www.ambrotype.ru/index_en.html)
The Mad Hatter, ambrotype 8x10"


Some technical details
Lens: Dallmeyer 3A at F/4
Light:

* 7x lamps light source at the right of the sitter at 45deg and above him
* 2x lamps light source behind the sitter (backdrop and hair light)
* big white reflector at the left
* big white reflector at floor at 45deg
* one round mirror to light top and back of the hat

Exposure: 8 seconds. (I used self made head rest)

jack_hui
14-Sep-2009, 01:33
Unknow Petzval Len
8x10 HP5+, Rodinal

http://www.pbase.com/jack_hui/image/117211250.jpg

eddie
14-Sep-2009, 04:17
Two scans from yesterday. The first was shot on 8x10 with a Folmer and Graflex Century 10A with a Seroco Portrait Lens Series II f-5 6½×8½ 12"... a.k.a. Wollensak Series A Portrait Lens and the Wollensak Vesta. Technically with mine it's the front and rear groups of that lens wedged into a discarded can from some Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas. (I don't have the barrel or aperture for the lens.) Exposure 1/2s @ f/5 on Arista EDU Ultra 100.


love it!

the story about the lens is great. maybe a photo of your "Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas-sak" lens in the one of a kind thread in the gear section.

benrains
14-Sep-2009, 04:42
love it!

the story about the lens is great. maybe a photo of your "Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas-sak" lens in the one of a kind thread in the gear section.

I call it my Hot Wasabi Pea-tzval.

cjbroadbent
14-Sep-2009, 07:24
Ok, September '83. 4x5 FP3 in D76 with a 135 Sironar on a Techinca. One brolly and Stuart's feet nailed to the floor.

Monty McCutchen
14-Sep-2009, 08:26
A couple of 10 x 12 Wet Plate Collodion Alumitypes

Both shot with a Dallmeyer 3A

Robert Hughes
14-Sep-2009, 08:31
A couple of 10 x 12 Wet Plate Collodion Alumitypes

Both shot with a Dallmeyer 3A
Great subject matter here - the thin woman with hatchet is channelling a bit of Lizzie Borden, no?

Jim Galli
14-Sep-2009, 09:34
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/MsclPetzvals/MrCollumS.jpg
Jim Collum

At the top of the world in Yosemite. The light at 9900 feet was beyond HOT.

Asher Kelman
14-Sep-2009, 09:52
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/MsclPetzvals/MrCollumS.jpg
Jim Collum

At the top of the world in Yosemite. The light at 9900 feet was beyond HOT.

Two wonderful talented and generous guys!! You're both the tops anyway! This picture is just a sample of the great time you had. Hope we get more. Fancy finding that spare lens up there? Mmm? I wonder if it with cover 8x10?

Keep us updated!

Asher

Asher Kelman
14-Sep-2009, 10:07
Two scans from yesterday. The first was shot on 8x10 with a Folmer and Graflex Century 10A with a Seroco Portrait Lens Series II f-5 6½×8½ 12"... a.k.a. Wollensak Series A Portrait Lens and the Wollensak Vesta. Technically with mine it's the front and rear groups of that lens wedged into a discarded can from some Hapi Hot Wasabi Peas. (I don't have the barrel or aperture for the lens.) Exposure 1/2s @ f/5 on Arista EDU Ultra 100.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3915806109_54ce4a2866_o.jpg

Ben.

I like the softness as it presents her very differently a swanky 5 light setup and the aperture controlled. I guess one could have sharper focus limited by the failure of the engineers at Hapi-Wasabi to install their usual aperture mechanism!

Result is simplicity, unpretentious and modest private look of a young woman.


The second was taken on the same camera, but with a Carl Zeiss Jena 45cm f:9 Apo-Tessar. Exposure 2 s @ f/11 on Arista EDU Ultra 100.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3915910617_db35cfdc3e_o.jpg

The extra length and absence of wasabi coating on the Zeiss lens bring her in so clearly to us. Confident but modest. This image would bring a deluge of inquiries on a date matching service! She beautiful, honest and very feminine. I like this focal length, What size film is this and what distance are you from her?

Good job both both counts,

Asher

Mark Sawyer
14-Sep-2009, 10:41
A wonderful, theatrical portrait, Unrealalex!

Doing a quick scan of the thread, I realized images taken with vintage optics outnumber those taken with modern optics about 2:1. I wonder if this phenomenon is more predominant in portraiture? It's certainly peculiar to large format...

ajsikel
14-Sep-2009, 12:00
ok, here is mine image or images. Hope to load them properly.
4X5 Crown Graphic on Era PSS 100

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9578/just4x5.jpg

ajsikel
14-Sep-2009, 12:04
another onehttp://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2424/jus3.jpg

Armin Seeholzer
14-Sep-2009, 15:14
ajsikel booth are very beautifull and quite a nice bokeh on them!

Cheers Armin

goamules
14-Sep-2009, 15:15
Wow, everyone has shot some great ones this month. Here are two more from my session with this model, all collodion on half plate:

Ross Rapid Symmetrical

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/3875098641_4e3f3d1fbe.jpg

Larger (http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=3875098641&posted=1&size=large)on black

Voigtlander 5A petzval

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2667/3872418995_e3c9f63735.jpg

Garrett

William McEwen
14-Sep-2009, 15:51
The day of our wedding 8-29-09.

Our wedding photographer pushed the shutter release but I set it up and worked the holders. The photographer was totally fascinated with the 8x10. He had never shot with lf before.

This is a scan from a super quick RC contact print I did right before my wife and I left for our honeymoon. It was still a little wet when I put it in the scanner. She couldn't believe I managed to make a print while we were running around like crazy trying to get out of town!

It was originally supposed to be a full body portrait but I guess something got moved between set-up and the actual photo. Cambo 8x10 with a fuji 300mm f5.6, Delta 100, f11.


Congratulations to both of you, Will! I'll bet that ends up being your favorite of the wedding pix.

benrains
14-Sep-2009, 16:12
I like this focal length, What size film is this and what distance are you from her?

Thanks, Asher! The one taken with the Zeiss lens was also on 8x10 film. The distance was on the order of 7ft or so. I find the 400-500mm (16-20in) focal lengths are my favorites for 8x10 portraiture.

ajsikel
14-Sep-2009, 22:28
[QUOTE=Armin Seeholzer;507913]ajsikel booth are very beautifull and quite a nice bokeh on them!

Cheers Armin[/QUOTE


thanks a lot Armin

Robert Hughes
15-Sep-2009, 06:36
Wow, everyone has shot some great ones this month. Here are two more from my session with this model, all collodion on half plate:

Garrett, your collodion photos are gorgeous! Your model has a great presence and her features compliment the medium.

ImSoNegative
15-Sep-2009, 21:03
Shot with a 8x10, paper negative, double exposed, arista edu ultra grade 2. 14in. commercial ektar, scan of print

jb7
16-Sep-2009, 04:47
Lovely stuff in here, as usual-
I shudder to put this one in,
but despite its obvious flaws, I kinda like it-

Neal, shot on T55, solarized, 140mm no name magic lantern lens, 4sec exp, so subject movement-

My first Petzval portrait, though more of a lens test than anything else...


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/3925056231_d6391d4f77_o.jpg

VictoriaPerelet
16-Sep-2009, 09:28
Joseph very interesting t55 look.

Besides lens etc - very unusual 55 structure, 55 typically only solarizisies if you peel it off very early ~ after 15secs, and also yours shows regular 30degree pattern and smudge in the middle - looks very similar to Fp-100b45 goop or underdeveloped Type 47.

What year is expiration date on this 55?

jb7
16-Sep-2009, 09:41
Thanks Victoria-

I peeled after 20-25, but temperature was less than it should have been-
so yes, underdeveloped-

Expiration is 12-2008-

It went into water pretty quickly, but it was exposed to light before the development was fully complete-

You can ensure solarization by giving the film a pop of a flash just after peeling,
but I'm sure you know that-

As I said, more of a lens test-
a little earlier, and I needn't have had to make a 4 sec exposure-

William McEwen
16-Sep-2009, 17:50
Shot with a 8x10, paper negative, double exposed, arista edu ultra grade 2. 14in. commercial ektar, scan of print

John, what was your exposure? I've never tried a paper negative, but this makes me want to give it a shot.

Frank Petronio
16-Sep-2009, 18:44
well... it was scanned and edited in September ;-)

Bill Kumpf
19-Sep-2009, 12:45
This was from last summer

ZoneVI Nikkor Lens maybe the 210W

P&S copy of the print

mrladewig
21-Sep-2009, 19:32
My sister and her daughter.

http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2222-1/45_P4N_20090921_002.jpg

Portra 400NC, Schneider Symmar-S 150/5.6 @ 5.6

W K Longcor
22-Sep-2009, 07:33
My sister and her daughter.

http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2222-1/45_P4N_20090921_002.jpg

Portra 400NC, Schneider Symmar-S 150/5.6 @ 5.6
BEAUTIFUL !!! Oh, -- your photograph is VERY nice, too!:)

Dave Aharonian
22-Sep-2009, 08:33
Candace. Darlot lens on 4x5.

BradS
23-Sep-2009, 10:57
A film scan of my first 8x10 negative (well, the first on that was relatively successful). Seems like I had some light leak or other stray light exposing the right hand side. The bellows is intact on this camera. This is a completely untouched (crude) scan of the negative just laid on the glass of a scanner at work. There is no film holder around for 8x10.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2664/3948402122_bf67d81b11_o.jpg
Graham
20 Sept 2009
Sonora, CA

Eastman Kodak 2-D
300mm Fujinon-C
Kodak Tri-X 320TXP

Miguel Coquis
23-Sep-2009, 11:07
mrladewig, Dave, Brad...!!!! ,continues production of beautiful work !!!

Kerik Kouklis
23-Sep-2009, 11:21
Candace. Darlot lens on 4x5.

Nice hat! Good work as always, Dave.

Jim Galli
23-Sep-2009, 11:25
Excellent Brad!

Dave Wooten
23-Sep-2009, 14:03
Nice hat! Good work as always, Dave.

Hat? hat? what hat?!:D

belle
23-Sep-2009, 14:17
Shot up close with 8x10 Deardorff, Dallmeyer lens at ƒ3 @ 4 sec with Polaroid 803. I kind of like the soft look.

Robert Hughes
23-Sep-2009, 14:29
I kind of like the soft look.
Seems a bit too soft - like she's underwater. William Mortensen spent several pages in his "The Negative" decrying portraits that had such narrow DOF that the ears were out of focus. Of course St Ansel didn't like Mortensen, but not for that reason - AA liked unlimited DOF at the time.

r.e.
23-Sep-2009, 17:35
BradS,

The portrait of Graham is just plain good unselfconcious fun.

Pete Watkins
24-Sep-2009, 02:28
Nice one Brad. A really happy portrait.I can't afford to relieve you of the 2D when you decide change so you'd better hang onto it for a bit.
Best wishes,
Pete.

George Kara
25-Sep-2009, 07:42
Self Improvement. My daughter thinks I need to work on myself. Here is a first attempt at fixing my brain - then the clamp falls off. Just my luck!!

Rod 210 5.6 pola 51. http://0168946.netsolhost.com/images/636_gsc92309bpsm.jpg

BradS
25-Sep-2009, 09:15
Miguel, jim, r.e. and Pete, Thanks for the kind words.

jb7
29-Sep-2009, 02:23
Sarah


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3965541232_cb026d436f_o.jpg


Taken on a little cinema projector lens marked F FALIEZ PARIS F185 1:2,5

Philippe Grunchec
29-Sep-2009, 02:58
Superb! Faliez, not (Gilles) Faller?

Miguel Coquis
29-Sep-2009, 04:10
Woman, Autumn portraits
Hermages 500mm
Dev +3
Scanned neg

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Hermages%20500/Close-000-bis.jpg

BradS
29-Sep-2009, 09:00
Miguel,

Wonderfully sharp and yet...not sharp everywhere....well done.

Mark Sawyer
29-Sep-2009, 22:19
With that 16" Cooke Portrait lens again. Actually, from the same session as the first portrait in this month's thread, but I didn't get a chance to print it til today...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/600hi.jpg

Philippe Grunchec
30-Sep-2009, 00:21
Great portrait, Mark!

jb7
30-Sep-2009, 00:28
Thanks Philippe-
yes, you were right about the name-
I simply copied it off the listing, but the name on the barrel reads-

F Faliez

Miguel Coquis
30-Sep-2009, 04:11
Miguel,

Wonderfully sharp and yet...not sharp everywhere....well done.

Thanks Brad for your appreciation, I will post some other tries with this interesting lens.

fsibold
2-Sep-2010, 20:02
I tested a 360mm barrel lens on my 8x10 Bender.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/4953120304_ac7e01d103_b.jpg

taulen
2-Sep-2010, 20:07
Nice portrait, but I think you choosed the wrong "year" to post the photo in :P
You should post it here :
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=66182