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Allen in Montreal
30-Nov-2009, 22:06
Torturing daughter number one for dad's amusement. :)

8x10 HP5, Fuji 250mm at f 22, D76 1:1
2000 w/s one softbox.

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/938/cassystudiox.tif (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/cassystudiox.tif/)

salihonba
30-Nov-2009, 22:18
It worth. She surely happy for it.

vphill
30-Nov-2009, 22:46
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4145365429_74fa8b4a89_b.jpg

FP4+ 4x5 Fujinon 360mm 1/8th @ f 8.2

Jeremy D. Moore
Pancake

seven
30-Nov-2009, 23:53
what a nice start for December :)

Miguel Coquis
1-Dec-2009, 03:23
Torturing daughter number one for dad's amusement. :)

8x10 HP5, Fuji 250mm at f 22, D76 1:1
2000 w/s one softbox.

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/938/cassystudiox.tif (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/cassystudiox.tif/)

daughters.... one of favorite subjects !!!
at the end the question is who tortures who ???!!!
Nice shot Allen !

Armin Seeholzer
1-Dec-2009, 05:08
Allen and Jeremy booth are very nice ones, like them much!

Cheers Armin

MenacingTourist
1-Dec-2009, 08:33
Nieces and Nephew in my backyard last Easter.
Efke 25, 14" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens

Mike1234
1-Dec-2009, 09:32
Nieces and Nephew in my backyard last Easter.
Efke 25, 14" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens

Color scan? Looks selenium toned. Love the color/hue.

MenacingTourist
1-Dec-2009, 09:52
Thanks Mike, I should be so lucky. It's just a quick scan (color) of the b/w contact print. I have yet to try selenium toners but am anxious to try.

Alan.

Monty McCutchen
1-Dec-2009, 11:14
I'll throw in a couple of shots of my daughter. From a series on 'before she turns 10'. I travel quite a bit and so we (she and I) have agreed we will try to get one session in per trip home before early January when she turns ten.

Both 20 x 24 Wet Plate collodion Dallmeyer 30" Rapid Rectilinear shot wide open @ f8. Exposures were 95 seconds on the indoor available window light shot and 30 seconds on the outdoor heavy overcast shot.

Hope you enjoy,

Monty

leighmarrin
1-Dec-2009, 14:29
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/uploads/13781/9x12cm3.jpg

A homeless man in Santa Monica, holding the dollar bill I gave him. Used a Certo 9x12cm "BeeBee" plate camera with Efke PL100 film.

soeren
1-Dec-2009, 23:25
daughters.... one of favorite subjects !!!
at the end the question is who tortures who ???!!!
Nice shot Allen !

Yes, a great shot.
And regarding torture
Grandkids are Gods reward to you for not killing your kids :D
Best regards

Denis Pleic
1-Dec-2009, 23:28
A homeless man in Santa Monica, holding the dollar bill I gave him.

For me, there's something seriously wrong with this photo - and it's not anything technical, to make it quite clear...

leighmarrin
2-Dec-2009, 01:07
Denis, he asked me for money politely, and after giving it to him, I in turn asked politely to take his photograph. I scale-focused my old camera at waist level, and quickly took his picture. He chose to hold the dollar bill up; I did not ask him.

Denis Pleic
2-Dec-2009, 02:59
He chose to hold the dollar bill up; I did not ask him.

That makes it a bit better. Still, the photo makes me uneasy.

Personally, I'd never take a photo of a homeless person, under any circumstances.
But then again, I couldn't picture myself in the role of a paparazzo, either... or in the role of Weegee.

Call me old-fashioned (or outdated), but that's just me...

Mike1234
2-Dec-2009, 03:13
Well, it's an image you won't soon forget nor will many others who see it. Maybe a few thousand more honest images of the homeless will convince us to finally do something about this societal problem.

Donald Miller
2-Dec-2009, 04:04
Well, it's an image you won't soon forget nor will many others who see it. Maybe a few thousand more honest images of the homeless will convince us to finally do something about this societal problem.


To my way of thinking an effective photograph has the ability to move us emotionally. That can just as well mean to move us in uncomfortable ways. It is time that we kicked the walls out of our self constructed comfort zones.

Donald Miller

leighmarrin
2-Dec-2009, 05:28
Curiously, when I posted the Homeless Man photo on Rangefinder Forum, someone was certain that he'd seen the same man as an ACTOR playing a homeless person on the US TV show "Law and Order". If true, I'd like to think that some kind TV producer helped this poor guy out, as he was genuinely homeless when I saw him.

The link to the RFF thread is: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73622&page=8

csant
2-Dec-2009, 07:15
I'll throw in a couple of shots of my daughter.

Wow, beautiful shots! 20x24 wet plates sounds like fun :)

Allen in Montreal
2-Dec-2009, 07:36
Thank you for the kind works gentlemen! She is a great, great kid.

Monty...20x24! That must amazing to behold.

Jeremy, that picture makes me smile! Nice.

Allen in Montreal
2-Dec-2009, 07:51
That makes it a bit better. Still, the photo makes me uneasy.

Personally, I'd never take a photo of a homeless person, under any circumstances.
But then again, I couldn't picture myself in the role of a paparazzo, either... or in the role of Weegee.

Call me old-fashioned (or outdated), but that's just me...

I often shoot homeless, but I sit with them and hear their stories too.
In many cases, the line between homelessness and not, is very thin and one can't help but think, there but by the grace of God, t'is not I. Most are very open to conversation and a little company, even if, but for a short while.

My youngest daughter and some of her classmates are doing a school project on homelessness, the group meeting planned for a Starbucks near their school. I intervened and took the group to a squat camp, we found a young girl (20) as she was closest to the girls in age, and sat with her and did a video interview of her for the class presentation.

Life can be a very fragile, and chance can play harder on some souls than others.
I think the experience was a very good thing for all of the girls.

Jeremy Moore
2-Dec-2009, 14:13
Jeremy, that picture makes me smile! Nice.

Just a note, that's a picture OF me, not BY me. It was taken by my friend Mark on a road trip to Vegas to visit my family. Mark won the stuffed animal at a carnival game in Vegas and we used it in pictures for the rest of the trip.

Ash
2-Dec-2009, 16:18
Denis (and others) is the reason it makes you uneasy because you choose to shy away from such reality? Maybe at age 22 I've been in contact with homeless and drug-users for nearly 6 years, traveled and met people not just in this country who don't have places to live.

I'm more likely to photograph the person because I want to document them, a monument to their existence. If nobody else notices them, or ignores them, at least I have an image as a memory.


Some crazy guy erratically throwing around juggling balls in the town center today ended up in a game of 'catch' with the kids (16-20 y/o's) who hang out in that spot. They'd been watching him for the good part of an hour.

After he looked like moving on myself and a friend went up to him. He was drunk and drinking more, ranted a bit, told us his name was Jay-Jay and let me take a couple shots (on a compact, only camera with me) and then he asked if we had 20p. The friend of mine had a 50p in his pocket. And that was the end of that. We moved on.

I've frequently bought lunch for local drunks and homeless, I find it insulting when people don't - and I'm from the young generation of 'take-and-don't-give'ers.

"Call me old-fashioned (or outdated), but that's just me..." - in fact it's common practice in early photography to document the less fortunate.

Dirk Rösler
2-Dec-2009, 20:52
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2624118142_942944792c_o.jpg

Taken a while ago. I was shooting from the footbridge when this lady got curious. I let her look on the GG and eventually asked to have her picture taken. Her mother was ill and she wanted to send this to her. I think it is a very charming portrait.

Sinar F2, Fujifilm Acros 8x10, Rodinal 1+25 9m drum processed, Globe portrait lens (1880s), Fuji TONE Gaslight Contact Printing Paper.

As for facing reality, this is a profile on Japanese photographer Manabu Yamanaka we have published today: http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/12/03/manabu-yamanaka-gallery/

jim kitchen
2-Dec-2009, 20:58
Dear Monty,

These images are spectacular... :)

If your have a moment, please show more of your work.

Well done, young man.

jim k

r.e.
2-Dec-2009, 21:15
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/uploads/13781/9x12cm3.jpg

A homeless man in Santa Monica, holding the dollar bill I gave him. Used a Certo 9x12cm "BeeBee" plate camera with Efke PL100 film.


For me, there's something seriously wrong with this photo - and it's not anything technical, to make it quite clear...


Denis, he asked me for money politely, and after giving it to him, I in turn asked politely to take his photograph. I scale-focused my old camera at waist level, and quickly took his picture. He chose to hold the dollar bill up; I did not ask him.


That makes it a bit better. Still, the photo makes me uneasy.

Personally, I'd never take a photo of a homeless person, under any circumstances.
But then again, I couldn't picture myself in the role of a paparazzo, either... or in the role of Weegee.

Call me old-fashioned (or outdated), but that's just me...


Well, it's an image you won't soon forget nor will many others who see it. Maybe a few thousand more honest images of the homeless will convince us to finally do something about this societal problem.


To my way of thinking an effective photograph has the ability to move us emotionally. That can just as well mean to move us in uncomfortable ways. It is time that we kicked the walls out of our self constructed comfort zones.

This is a significant issue among street photographers. There are three problems, the first having to do with ethics and propriety, especially when money changes hands, the second being that these photographs are easy to do and a dime a dozen, and the third being an absence, except in the context of a thought-out documentary project, of any apparent aesthetic or even political purpose. Experienced street photographers won't do them; just check out the street photography fora on the internet, where this kind of thing is looked on with disdain. What's a little different about this one is that the subject's decision to hold up the dollar bill can be construed as giving the finger to the photographer. Just look at the expression on his face.

Tri Tran
2-Dec-2009, 22:21
December already huh? Wow, time goes by fast. Here's mine taken with the 360mm Imagon.

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9756/scan0912020001.jpg (http://img682.imageshack.us/i/scan0912020001.jpg/)

Happy Holidays everyone!

Preston
2-Dec-2009, 22:32
"...can be construed as giving the finger to the photographer. Just look at the expression on his face.
"

I see the sadness of a harsh life in his face, no more, no less.

I believe that poeple look with disdain upon images like this simply because they rattle their thinking that all is good with their world.

***

I am not a portrait photographer, but I must say that I follow these threads every month and find the work displayed in them exemplary!

-Preston

Mike1234
2-Dec-2009, 23:47
I agree with Preston's comments above regarding the homeless man. That said, photos like this do tread a fine line between recording a truism and using the subject. Often this is just the way things are and, sadly, one cannot exist without the other. The important thing to remember is to remain compassionate because, without that, it's just using someone who's powerless to defend himself. I have no doubt the photographer had/has compassion for the man in the photo.

Denis Pleic
3-Dec-2009, 00:54
I'd rather not pollute this thread, so I'm opening another thread, under title "Photographing homeless"....

Just to make it clear, I follow these "Portrait" threads almost religiously :) - I have seen so many fantastic photos here that I don't even dare say I own a LF camera, let alone show anything... ;)

As for taking photos of homeless people, and why I abhore it, we'll take it to another thread - and leave this for photographs...

Denis

Jim Galli
3-Dec-2009, 07:35
This is a significant issue among street photographers. There are three problems, the first having to do with ethics and propriety, especially when money changes hands, the second being that these photographs are easy to do and a dime a dozen, and the third being an absence, except in the context of a thought-out documentary project, of any apparent aesthetic or even political purpose. Experienced street photographers won't do them; just check out the street photography fora on the internet, where this kind of thing is looked on with disdain. What's a little different about this one is that the subject's decision to hold up the dollar bill can be construed as giving the finger to the photographer. Just look at the expression on his face.

Troubling, because of some personal mutual respect issues, but I agree with everything you said. Even worse, you said it well. Thanks.

Ken Lee
3-Dec-2009, 07:40
http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/img005a.jpg
Sinar P, 250mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
4x5 TMY, Pyrocat HD

benrains
3-Dec-2009, 17:59
Two recent images...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2669/4127592673_fb9c470d47.jpg
B&J Rembrandt Portrait Camera Model II 5x7
Artists Special Symmetrical f6.8, 12.5" lens
(a no-name extra rapid rectilinear lens, but
its become one of my favorite lenses.)
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4110336953_3a51880f5f.jpg
Deardorff 8x10 using a 5x7 reducing back
Caltar-S II 360/6.8
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50.

Vaughn
5-Dec-2009, 05:15
My three boys with the Three brothers in the background

Along the Merced River, Yosemite National Park

f64 @ 1/4 second, with yellow filter

Scanned 8x10 neg, Tri-x, developed in Ilford Universal PQ developer, 1:9, 70 degrees, 9 minutes

Taken November 22, 2010, developed tonight

Fairly straight scan

jon.oman
5-Dec-2009, 07:02
Wow! An image from the future!

Nice one.

Mike1234
5-Dec-2009, 11:51
Wow! An image from the future!

Nice one.

He must be a fan of the Twilght Zone. Either that or he's so far ahead of the rest of us he must use a special calendar. :D

Ken Lee
5-Dec-2009, 12:28
"Wow! An image from the future!"

It's comforting to know that film will be available in the future !

Jim Galli
5-Dec-2009, 12:44
Sinar P, 250mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
4x5 TMY, Pyrocat HD

I just love this photo. I keep going back to it over and over. What I see in her face is all coming from the inside, and those are the kids I love best.

Richard M. Coda
5-Dec-2009, 13:02
I'll throw in a couple of shots of my daughter. From a series on 'before she turns 10'. I travel quite a bit and so we (she and I) have agreed we will try to get one session in per trip home before early January when she turns ten.

Both 20 x 24 Wet Plate collodion Dallmeyer 30" Rapid Rectilinear shot wide open @ f8. Exposures were 95 seconds on the indoor available window light shot and 30 seconds on the outdoor heavy overcast shot.

Hope you enjoy,

Monty

Beautiful images, Monty. I can only imagine what they look like in real life.

Ken Lee
5-Dec-2009, 13:22
I just love this photo. I keep going back to it over and over. What I see in her face is all coming from the inside, and those are the kids I love best.

Thanks Maestro - We have you to thank for the stylistic inspiration and technical know-how.

Vaughn
5-Dec-2009, 15:10
Wow! An image from the future!

Nice one.

Whoops...I wasn't suppose to let anyone know. Anyone want to know who wins the 2010 WorldSeries? ;)

In my defense, I scanned and posted that image at about 4am this morning after a long night of shooting and developing.

Vaughn

Gary L. Quay
6-Dec-2009, 02:59
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/4142660360_1263181da0.jpg

Camera: Calumet C-1 with a 4x5 back.
Lens: 13" Cooke Series II Portrait Lens
Film: Kodak Portra 160NC

This is heavily cropped, but the original was a 4x5 negative.

eddie
6-Dec-2009, 20:12
sounds like a good title.

8x10 wet plate negative. i was having chemistry trouble and i kept getting a blue mark that would not clear. i tried printing at anyway. note the shadow areas by his left hand and the end of the leaf.

adds an interesting touch....kinda.

ilford WT.

eddie

Jim Galli
6-Dec-2009, 20:30
sounds like a good title.

8x10 wet plate negative. i was having chemistry trouble and i kept getting a blue mark that would not clear. i tried printing at anyway. note the shadow areas by his left hand and the end of the leaf.

adds an interesting touch....kinda.

ilford WT.

eddie
Most unusual. Well done.

unrealalex
7-Dec-2009, 01:05
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice003.jpg
Igor Bryakilev, "Wonderland" Series, ambrotype 8x10"

eddie
7-Dec-2009, 04:56
Most unusual. Well done.

thanks jim.
eddie

kev curry
7-Dec-2009, 05:09
Powerful and menacing, unreal Eddie, bravo!

fuegocito
7-Dec-2009, 11:33
Nieces and Nephew in my backyard last Easter.
Efke 25, 14" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens

This is lovely...thanks for sharing


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4145365429_74fa8b4a89_b.jpg

FP4+ 4x5 Fujinon 360mm 1/8th @ f 8.2

Jeremy D. Moore
Pancake

The bizarreness is this image is surreal...wish there are a lot more of it:-)

Rob

brchambe
7-Dec-2009, 15:47
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice003.jpg
Igor Bryakilev, "Wonderland" Series, ambrotype 8x10"

Alexey, great photo. Really well done. Great portfolio on your website as well.

Thanks for sharing, Brian.

Frank Petronio
7-Dec-2009, 15:50
Dallas. Buy a damn print.

Tri Tran
7-Dec-2009, 21:44
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3879/darlot.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/i/darlot.jpg/)
An 8x10 Pt print to share. Thanks for viewing.

Frank Petronio
7-Dec-2009, 22:37
Asheville

maurits
8-Dec-2009, 00:38
First try with the 200mm Gasc et Charconnet Quick Acting Portrait petzval (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=56240).

My classmate Duane.

http://rexmundi.nl/photo/001k.jpg

4x5 FP4 plus in Pyrocat-HD

Cheers, Maurits

.

monkeymon
8-Dec-2009, 07:34
Dallas. Buy a damn print.


Frank, i think color gives a nice and needed edge for your photos! And i don't even like color fotography!

Frank Petronio
8-Dec-2009, 11:10
Thanks. But I did B&W too ;-)

eddie
8-Dec-2009, 16:24
forcing some unsuspecting friends in front of a monster 18 inch f5 Gasc et Charconnet petzval!

8x10 foma 100 pyro hd. 2:2:100 for 5.5 min (a bit less development to offset my hat/shutter) ilford FB. #3 filter selenium toned.

eddie

Jim Galli
8-Dec-2009, 17:18
An 8x10 Pt print to share. Thanks for viewing.

This is wonderful. Which lens was this Tri? Just right.

Tri Tran
8-Dec-2009, 20:20
This is wonderful. Which lens was this Tri? Just right.

Thanks Jim. It's a Darlot 13 In.

Tri Tran
8-Dec-2009, 21:25
Bought it and received today. First I though it's a Plasticca because it's thin but Jim said No. Anyway It's a B & L 12 Plastigmat Portrait lens 12 inches and I LOVE it.Let me know what you think.Thanks for viewing.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1465/plastimat.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/plastimat.jpg/)

Frank Petronio
9-Dec-2009, 09:13
State line between Tennessee and North Carolina

nray
9-Dec-2009, 13:24
This is the first (and only) portrait I took with my 4x5. Taken on Astia with a Schneider 210/5.6. We promised my Brother-in-law and my wife's sister we would do a portrait of them for their 40th anniversary. He has a cabin up north.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o131/nray53/Pembine2B.jpg

bohngy
9-Dec-2009, 16:45
Thanks. But I did B&W too ;-)

Frank, I love your work and enjoy all the pictures you post online. I was wondering if I could ask you a question? For a while I've wanted to shoot an interior portrait like your girl on her bed picture. The problem is large format indoors isn't so great (kodak are the only manufacturer to make a 400asa color film) as available light is going to be way too low. Did you light this with a single flash head? I would have thought the fall-off from a single head would have been too great, leaving the wall behind the bed in darkness.

did you use flash, or did you use faster film and a smaller film format?

Thanks in advance, Benj

Frank Petronio
9-Dec-2009, 17:10
I just use a 500 watt Lowel Tota-Light on an 8-foot Lowel stand, I point it at the ceiling and wall and let the light bounce around, sometimes I add a second light too. Kodak Portra 400NC and the camera lens wide-open at f/5.6 @ 1/30 or 1/60 second most of the time.

If the room has other than white or neutral walls then I shoot it as B&W!

Strobe is fine -- I wouldn't want to do sports or groups with hot lights -- but I like to see the light and I am going to want to shoot wide open regardless. The Halogen lights are fine until it gets really warm outside, and they sure are easier to carry and travel with.

Ken Lee
9-Dec-2009, 19:14
This is the first (and only) portrait I took with my 4x5. Taken on Astia with a Schneider 210/5.6. We promised my Brother-in-law and my wife's sister we would do a portrait of them for their 40th anniversary. He has a cabin up north.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o131/nray53/Pembine2B.jpg

Lovely !

nray
10-Dec-2009, 07:33
Lovely !

Thanks for that.

Miguel Coquis
10-Dec-2009, 09:28
portrait
8x10

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Autumn%20Portraits/seeing.jpg

bohngy
10-Dec-2009, 11:04
I just use a 500 watt Lowel Tota-Light

Ahh great! that's really helpful. Thank you. You see... I'm so blinkered by using flash (I worked as a lighting monkey for many years) that I didn't even think about red heads. I guess the color cast would bother me. Do you use an 80A/80B Tungsten Corr'n filter or do you correct for the color cast in photoshop?

also don't you have depth of field issues with 5x4 and f5.6?

Sorry to be persistent/pedantic (delete where applicable) but I've had a lot of problems with this situation and specifically 5x4 cameras. I've used flash in the past, but it's quite unsuccessful as you have to drag the shutter for anything up to 1sec to balance the flash with ambient.

thanks for your help thusfar Frank.

Benj

Frank Petronio
10-Dec-2009, 11:08
I fix the color in Photoshop but with the modern films it isn't as harsh as it used to be in the 80s when tungsten on daylight film was difficult to deal with. At least with the Porta 400NC I use. But I convert it to B&W sometimes too, it depends.

Sure, shooting wide open means I miss perfect focus, especially when I am close, and I toss a lot of shots, but it also looks really cool when you hit it ;-0

Of course I could do the same thing with small format and fast lenses wide open but that wouldn't be as much of a challenge now, would it?

bohngy
10-Dec-2009, 15:50
Thanks for the help Frank, I'll give it a shot next week... rather than hijack the thread any further I think I'll start another, dedicated to such situations.

Trying to get things back on track... Here's one from my current project; I've spent a number of months earning the trust of the local traveling community... a continually revolving cast of characters to photograph... This one's Owen, a Welsh film-maker, in a particularly scary mood.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/5071/owene.jpg (http://img300.imageshack.us/i/owene.jpg/)

Jeremy Moore
10-Dec-2009, 15:58
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/5071/owene.jpg (http://img300.imageshack.us/i/owene.jpg/)

This is the first time I've ever seen someone who loaded their holders in the "opposite" direction--with the notches slid into the holder as opposed to at the flap end. Kinda weird.

I really like this portrait.

bohngy
10-Dec-2009, 16:26
Thank you for the nice comment Jeremy...

Weird indeed, I had to think about it for a minute. I shot this picture with my crown graphic, hand held. If you hold the camera using the hand strap in its portrait orientation the film holder is effectively upside down. The spring back and ground glass are fixed in the landscape position...

So I am normal.... I hope; merely a case of the film being upside down at the time of exposure!

Jeremy Moore
10-Dec-2009, 19:59
Thank you for the nice comment Jeremy...

Weird indeed, I had to think about it for a minute. I shot this picture with my crown graphic, hand held. If you hold the camera using the hand strap in its portrait orientation the film holder is effectively upside down. The spring back and ground glass are fixed in the landscape position...

So I am normal.... I hope; merely a case of the film being upside down at the time of exposure!

That explains it!

Frank Petronio
10-Dec-2009, 23:28
Monica

Donald Miller
11-Dec-2009, 02:27
12-9-09 Milano Italy

ImSoNegative
13-Dec-2009, 19:26
this is a portrait of my nephew Jake, kind of soft, he decided to move during the 8 sec exposure, shot with a 14in. rapid rectilinear barrel lens. 8x10 paper negative.

vinny
13-Dec-2009, 22:11
12-9-09 Milano Italy

Donald, What are the specs of this shot? It looks manipulated to me somehow but I can't put my finger on it?

Monty McCutchen
13-Dec-2009, 22:24
One from this summer

10 x 12 Alumitype Wet Plate Collodion Dallmeyer 3A wide open

cavek
14-Dec-2009, 08:22
Selfportraits. Sinar F2 - Hp5

chachahavana
14-Dec-2009, 08:29
This is taken with Petzval Design Voigtlander 5B on Toyoview 810, f/4, packard shutter around 1/25. 8x10 Shanghai B/W Film.
Eunice Chan, Supermodel in Hong Kong
Costume Design by renowned couture designer, Barney Cheung

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4140551727_bc1ed4eca7_o.jpg

Thanks for viewing,
ChaCha

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chachahavana/sets/72157610916886636/

jack_hui
14-Dec-2009, 08:58
This is taken with Petzval Design Voigtlander 5B on Toyoview 810, f/4, packard shutter around 1/25. 8x10 Shanghai B/W Film.
Eunice Chan, Supermodel in Hong Kong
Costume Design by renowned couture designer, Barney Cheung

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4140551727_bc1ed4eca7_o.jpg

Thanks for viewing,
ChaCha

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chachahavana/sets/72157610916886636/

Hi Chacha,

Good to see another LF shooter from HKG, I am from HKG too!!
I have seem the 4B lens, it is huge for 8x10. I wonder how LARGE is ur 5B!!! :eek:

Jack

chachahavana
14-Dec-2009, 10:28
Thanks for the comment Jack !!
ChaCha

Tri Tran
14-Dec-2009, 11:26
This is taken with Petzval Design Voigtlander 5B on Toyoview 810, f/4, packard shutter around 1/25. 8x10 Shanghai B/W Film.
Eunice Chan, Supermodel in Hong Kong
Costume Design by renowned couture designer, Barney Cheung

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4140551727_bc1ed4eca7_o.jpg

Thanks for viewing,
ChaCha

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chachahavana/sets/72157610916886636/

Wonderful portrait ! She reminds me so much like Anita Mui. Thanks for sharing.

Kerik Kouklis
14-Dec-2009, 12:40
One from this summer

10 x 12 Alumitype Wet Plate Collodion Dallmeyer 3A wide open

Ouch!! Nice one, Monsta!

ThePhilosopher
14-Dec-2009, 20:59
Syndi is a local child model (that was released by a guardian).
Schneider Xenar 150mm f/5.6, 1/60, f/8, Plus-X 125 4x5 expired 1987, lighting is a Bowens Monolight through a 16x22 softbox.

http://www.bartkophoto.com/Syndi/Syndi_001_s.jpg

ImSoNegative
14-Dec-2009, 22:00
Here is a couple I did today, 8x10 field camera, paper negative, 14in. rapid rectilinear barrel lens

jb7
15-Dec-2009, 05:52
First pictures from an 1862 Voigtlander 11" Portrait Lens-
wish I could just call it a 6B,
but it's not engraved on the barrel.

First test, although a low key picture, like chacha's lovely one above,
might suit this distance better, I wanted to see what the image circle actually was-


Laura helped out on this one- http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4187645806_8111eb89d5_o.jpg


Next, closer up,
and thanks to Zoltan for sitting in- http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2643/4186883623_59280a32d4_o.jpg


Fomapan 200, HC110, on the Arca Irish 8x10...

Frank Petronio
15-Dec-2009, 06:26
I really like the picture of Zoltan

unrealalex
15-Dec-2009, 06:30
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice004.jpg

Agasha, "Wonderland", ambrotype 8x10"

chachahavana
15-Dec-2009, 09:30
Thank you very much !
Tri Tran and jb7 !!

jb7
15-Dec-2009, 10:02
Thanks Frank-
I've decided I like swirly lenses,
though I don't necessarily like to see the swirl...

That one might easily have been made on the holder I got from you-
small world-

Alex Wei
15-Dec-2009, 10:43
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice004.jpg

Agasha, "Wonderland", ambrotype 8x10"

This is just simply amazing!

Noeyedear
16-Dec-2009, 07:57
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice004.jpg

Agasha, "Wonderland", ambrotype 8x10"

Alex,
I just took a look at the portraits on your site, one word,,,,, Fantastic!

Kevin.

unrealalex
18-Dec-2009, 08:07
Alex, Kevin, Thank you for such kind words!

Michael Graves
19-Dec-2009, 15:53
A new scan from an older negative.

VictoriaPerelet
19-Dec-2009, 23:59
Had trip to San Diego. No location except DULL DULL DULL hotel:) Few local models:


http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Texas_Timebomb/big/TT13-16-2s.jpg

Sinar F2, Schneider APO Symmar 210mm, F5.6, lens plane tilted.

http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Devin_Marie/big/DM9-12-2s.jpg

Sinar F2, Schneider SA XL 72mm, F22.

Both pics metered with Canon Point & Shoot digicam & lit with Canon Speedlites. HC110 developed in hotel bathroom.

Craig Griffiths
20-Dec-2009, 06:13
A couple taken earlier this week. Both with Verito 14.5 inch on 8x10. I am finally starting to use the Verito more and I am enjoying the results. Not perfect, many faults, but I like them.

Hayley. 14.5 Inch Verito f4 and f8 approx

benrains
21-Dec-2009, 08:15
A few others from the start of the month.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2543/4129393380_1e75bdd33e.jpg
Deardorff 8x10 using a 5x7 reducing back
Caltar II-N 240/5.6
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4134194533_f1a6291674.jpg
Deardorff 8x10
Caltar-S II 360/6.8
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50.

jb7
21-Dec-2009, 09:06
Another one from Zoltan's session-
slight crop this time...




http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/4203710656_3d48f7d15c_o.jpg

Nathan67
23-Dec-2009, 10:12
A few others from the start of the month.


Love that second shot.. lovely mood.

Nathan67
23-Dec-2009, 10:16
Well it seems like forever since I have had the chance to play with my LF cameras.. too busy earning a living with the digital in the my studio.. oh well :)
But I am jsut clearing up the studio getting ready to shut down for the holiday when I found this one which I have been meaning to scan and print for my mother in law... this is the father in law, dairy farmer on a break taken this summer with my Crown Graphic on polaroid 4x5 colour film....
http://www.lediardfoto.com/cs001a.jpg

Mark Sawyer
23-Dec-2009, 12:54
With the 15 1/2 inch Velostigmat, f/4.5 and rather soft on the diffusion setting, on the Century 4a, 8x10 back.

"I saw you in my dreams..."

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Owen21k/w155inchVelostigmat.jpg

Jim Galli
23-Dec-2009, 13:13
With the 15 1/2 inch Velostigmat, f/4.5 and rather soft on the diffusion setting, on the Century 4a, 8x10 back.

"I saw you in my dreams..."



Oh! Mark! Gorgeous, this.

Angi Welsch
23-Dec-2009, 18:18
a shot of Gabby at home.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4167871728_d33d10f621_b.jpg

Toyo 8 x 10
kodak triX 320

Frank Petronio
23-Dec-2009, 18:37
Angi you win! I love your photo

eddie
23-Dec-2009, 18:39
WOW. the past several pages have been awesome! really!

JosephBurke
23-Dec-2009, 19:29
....I agree...lots of great images.....Angi, I love yours........

Merry Christmas everyone !!!

Joe Smigiel
23-Dec-2009, 20:00
Awesome Angi!

Monty McCutchen
23-Dec-2009, 23:16
Angi,

Indeed it has already been said but that is a stunning image.

best,

Monty

tenderobject
23-Dec-2009, 23:45
a shot of Gabby at home.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4167871728_d33d10f621_b.jpg

Toyo 8 x 10
kodak triX 320

very nice portrait! what kind of lens are you using? just curious! :)

Michael Graves
24-Dec-2009, 05:55
a shot of Gabby at home.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4167871728_d33d10f621_b.jpg

Toyo 8 x 10
kodak triX 320

What did the deer do to piss her off?

unrealalex
24-Dec-2009, 07:33
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice002.jpg
Mad Hatter on a Court, ambrotype 8x10"

Mark Sawyer
24-Dec-2009, 10:31
Oh! Mark! Gorgeous, this.

Thank you, Jim! Those old lenses are a nice combination with high school kids. Both can just melt your heart...

Angi Welsch
24-Dec-2009, 13:25
Thank you everyone for your encouraging words,

merry christmas!

goamules
25-Dec-2009, 11:14
Here are two half plates, collodion, from this month. Very contrasty one taken with an F3 Darlot Special Large Diameter Darlot Lens (borrowed from Mark Sawyer).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/4207765534_e3e30bb5b7.jpg

Taken with a 15" Voigtlander no. 4 (Euryscop) I was testing out.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2493/4129003345_3447dffb68.jpg

Merry Christmas,

Garrett

Chris C
25-Dec-2009, 16:04
I'm brand new to portraits (first ever in the 5 years shooting 4x5, so go easy!).

This is my Grandpa, aged 97, taken on Christmas day. Most amazing person. Still drives, still lives in his own place up a pretty steep wobbly old path, still tends his own garden.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4213651861_03ce461cae.jpg

150mm Rodenstock APO Sironar-N, FP4+ developed in LC29 (1+19).

Rick Olson
25-Dec-2009, 18:11
I'm brand new to portraits (first ever in the 5 years shooting 4x5, so go easy!).

This is my Grandpa, aged 97, taken on Christmas day. Most amazing person. Still drives, still lives in his own place up a pretty steep wobbly old path, still tends his own garden.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4213651861_03ce461cae.jpg

150mm Rodenstock APO Sironar-N, FP4+ developed in LC29 (1+19).


Chris ... great shot and one you will treasure in the future!!

Rick

SteveKarr
25-Dec-2009, 18:25
Your Images have a magic...



http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice002.jpg
Mad Hatter on a Court, ambrotype 8x10"

Hugo Zhang
25-Dec-2009, 21:38
Great shots in this page!!!

jim kitchen
28-Dec-2009, 01:05
Great images everyone... :)

Here is a portrait I managed to capture several years ago. I do remember that Theresa was just a wee bit annoyed with me that day.

jim k


Theresa, Jack Miner's Bird Sanctuary, Kingsville, Ontario, Canada, 1976

http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkitchen.ca/images/Theresa_1976.jpg

Joe Smigiel
29-Dec-2009, 13:30
http://my.net-link.net/~jsmigiel/images/technical/collodion/Rick_Butler_green_ambro.jpg
Portrait of Rick - 12/29/09

Full-plate ambrotype on green glass
16" f/3.8 Wollensak Vitax lens @f/3.8 (it's for sale in the classified section, BTW)
9600ws electronic flash @ 1 meter 1 pop
Coffer's "Old Reliable" collodion formula
Ake's sugar developer

jb7
29-Dec-2009, 14:27
wonderful stuff-

SteveKarr
29-Dec-2009, 16:34
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8645/giagraveritoi.jpg

mdm
1-Jan-2010, 01:27
A wonderful grandfather. Enjoy the summer, if you have one in the windy city.

David

VictoriaPerelet
1-Jan-2010, 10:31
Here's one from last week of last year:

http://www.victoriasphoto.com/models/Modelnola/big/MD-E6-17-crop.jpg

Sinar F2, 72mmXL+CF, F22. Some may debate if F22 was appropriate or subsequent post is needed.

Morca
6-Jan-2010, 01:47
The first ever photo from my Crown Graphic.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4249897933_dc3762e90a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4249897933/)
Larger size and technical data on flickr.

Nothing to write home about, poor scan (need a scanner capable of 4x5) and I've got to figure out a solution for proper 4x5 developing (I'm really quite decent at it in 120 and 35mm, I swear!), but it's exciting to know the camera works!

herrvall
9-Jan-2010, 22:43
One of my last 4x5's of 2009...I surely need a new scanner. First exposure was done by opening and closing shutter @ 1/125, f5.6, second the same with flash. My two faced friend ;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4260962833_2edbcf9538.jpg