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Portrait taken with a P&S Visual Quality lens.
Fortepan 200 developed in Pyrocat HD
Jay DeFehr
3-Mar-2010, 22:07
Beautiful portrait, Daniel, and consistent with your work, in general. I like the contrast of the ruggedly masculine subject and soft, delicate tones, and warm image color. I wonder how the subject feels about it?
Brad Bireley
4-Mar-2010, 09:10
Great portrait. That eye!
monkeymon
4-Mar-2010, 10:36
crop from 8x10 negative, shot with 365mm commersial ektar @ f32 on fomapan 200
http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/udla3.jpg
Petri Uutela, he is a finnish photographer.. here's some of his work on burn:
http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/petri-uutela-passers-by/
Steve M Hostetter
4-Mar-2010, 14:30
165mm Schneider on 4x5 sinar P w/ Nikon D200 attached
Jim Galli
4-Mar-2010, 14:46
Portrait taken with a P&S Visual Quality lens.
Fortepan 200 developed in Pyrocat HD
Classic Daniel.
Steve M Hostetter
4-Mar-2010, 14:55
Sinar 4x5 165mm schneider (cropped) on polaroid
Steve M Hostetter
4-Mar-2010, 14:58
4x5 Sinar P 8-3/4" Wollensak Vertio on Fuji Instant
Steve M Hostetter
4-Mar-2010, 19:22
Schneider 165mm 4x5 sinar P on Fuji instant
kev curry
5-Mar-2010, 01:55
Steve your portraits have a lovely quality...very nice.
Beautiful portrait, Daniel, and consistent with your work, in general. I like the contrast of the ruggedly masculine subject and soft, delicate tones, and warm image color. I wonder how the subject feels about it?
Thank you, Jay, Brad and Jim. The subject in this portrait didn't think it was necessarily his best look, but liked the feel of image.
All the best,
Daniel
Jay DeFehr
5-Mar-2010, 10:06
Thanks, Daniel. I never tire of looking at portraits, or discussing them with other photographers, and I could ask a hundred more questions about how your relationships to your subjects inform your decisions about the lighting, materials, and equipment you use to portray them. I'm often surprised when looking through proofs of a session, a subject chooses his favorite. I think most people want to present their best appearance to the world, and these choices are revelatory, in more ways than one; they reveal something about the subject's self image, and something about the tension between the way the subject wants to be presented, and the way the photographer wants to be represented. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work; giving me something to look at, and something to think about.
http://brianthedellphotography.com/3_3_10/Untitled-1.jpg
and
http://brianthedellphotography.com/3_3_10/Untitled-6.jpg
Steve M Hostetter
5-Mar-2010, 14:04
Steve your portraits have a lovely quality...very nice.
Kev,, Thank you for the kind words..
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4410417530_74f0e11e84_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4410417530/)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4407518921_32c79f130d.jpg
Tri-X Pan 320 4x5, 210 Topcor f5.6 at f11 - 1/8 second
Shot Feb 2010, hadn't had a chance to upload until last night.
goamules
6-Mar-2010, 16:57
I'm wringing out a new lens, probably the fastest I have now. This F3.1 Voigtlander 6B is giving a very soft focus, pictorialist look wide open. Which is a look I've been trying for. On 5x7 Alum, about 4 secs. Tried to swing the back of my Century to get the far eyes in focus, but didn't get there.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4411503755_6f9ce37fa0.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4412272984_9702ab85c7.jpg
Garrett
Flickr Gallery (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsphotos/)
Jim Galli
6-Mar-2010, 17:13
I'm wringing out a new lens, probably the fastest I have now. This F3.1 Voigtlander 6B is giving a very soft focus, pictorialist look wide open. Which is a look I've been trying for. On 5x7 Alum, about 4 secs. Tried to swing the back of my Century to get the far eyes in focus, but didn't get there.
Garrett
Wow. Impressive stuff. Beautifully crafted and very different from the norm. Congrats on the 6B. Had a 5B once but it got away.
Mike Anderson
6-Mar-2010, 21:50
That video (or multimedia thing) at the link below is really nice.
...Mike
crop from 8x10 negative, shot with 365mm commersial ektar @ f32 on fomapan 200
http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/udla3.jpg
Petri Uutela, he is a finnish photographer.. here's some of his work on burn:
http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/petri-uutela-passers-by/
Frank Petronio
6-Mar-2010, 23:56
Just scanned, it was fogged from a bad bellows on an 8x10 C1. This is the uber-famous Meagan.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/meagan_810_mao_01.jpg
Miguel Coquis
7-Mar-2010, 03:18
Just scanned, it was fogged from a bad bellows on an 8x10 C1. This is the uber-famous Meagan.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/meagan_810_mao_01.jpg
Like this poupée portrait !
Miguel Coquis
7-Mar-2010, 03:19
... holding light !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Home/Holding-light.jpg
getting the feel of a 7 inch Dynar (heliar). 1st day shooting with it. f8. next time i will get closer. 4x5 scan from a print.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/3/5/7/8/5/0/webimg/353027130_o.jpg
Henry Ambrose
7-Mar-2010, 08:43
... holding light !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Home/Holding-light.jpg
YES!!!!!!
goamules
7-Mar-2010, 09:13
Thanks Jim, I appreciate that. But man, what great set of portraits following...each one different in many ways, but all are great to look at.
Mark Sawyer
7-Mar-2010, 10:55
[CENTER]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4411503755_6f9ce37fa0.jpg
This one's just wonderful, Garrett! I think it would be a lovely portrait with any lens in any process. (But we do love these old things, for their history and for what they can do...)
Jim Galli
7-Mar-2010, 11:03
... holding light !
Brilliant!
... holding light !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Home/Holding-light.jpg
Miguel. Haunting and whimsical and utterly lovely. One of the most mystical images I've seen on this thread over the years. I am jealous.
... holding light !
Lovely!
Scott Davis
8-Mar-2010, 12:06
... holding light !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Home/Holding-light.jpg
That is absolutely exquisite! I LOVE it.
Steve M Hostetter
8-Mar-2010, 21:58
Korona 8x10 Wollensak Verito 8-3/4" "paper neg" Foma 100
Miguel Coquis
9-Mar-2010, 02:14
Korona 8x10 Wollensak Verito 8-3/4" "paper neg" Foma 100
Nice work Steve !
beautiful tones "serious" portrait.
Ramiro Elena
9-Mar-2010, 03:32
Petzval+chemical issues, 4x5.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4418970083_68e1322b71.jpg
Steve M Hostetter
9-Mar-2010, 07:12
Nice work Steve !
beautiful tones "serious" portrait.
Miguel,, thank you, yes I feel good about this one:)
jack_hui
9-Mar-2010, 08:29
... holding light !
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Home/Holding-light.jpg
wonderful shot!!!!!
fenderbja
9-Mar-2010, 09:36
Shot with my Shen Hao 4x5 - 210mm rodenstock lens - Tri-X 320 - Xtol 1:1
http://www.brandonallenphotography.com/posts/michelle6.jpg
Jack Dahlgren
9-Mar-2010, 10:22
Anniversary Speedgraphic w/ 4 1/2" Ilex Paragon:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4420161970_955d2413e5_b.jpg
Jack Dahlgren—very nice environmental portrait. Loving the use of window light...
ethics_gradient
9-Mar-2010, 12:48
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4418320707_c1a453ca29_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadcullen/4418320707/)
Test shot, from my first couple of sheets of 4x5 (some scratches from not trimming my nails before I tried tray development, think a Combi-Plan is in my future). Taken with the Aero Ektar wide open at about 1/2s on Arista EDU 100, using the "hat shutter" method.
Apologies on the scan quality, I loaded a blank webpage on my laptop, set the negative down on it, and took a picture with my DSLR :p I've got access to a flatbed that does 11x16 transparencies at work, I'll probably be using that for my more serious stuff.
Pete Watkins
9-Mar-2010, 14:03
Brandon,
That's beautiful.
Pete.
Jay DeFehr
9-Mar-2010, 14:28
Brandon-
I like the spontaneous quality of your portrait. It looks more like MF work than most LF work I see. With view cameras, focus is so critical due to the typically shallow dof at close working distances, and due to the shutter lag between composition and exposure, any impression of movement is rare in this kind of work. Well done.
eg-
Some of the more technique-minded might find fault with your image, but I like the intimate, casual feel of it, and given your improvised scanning method, I can imagine a real print would look considerably more hi-fi. I used to use a lot of EDU 100 and EDU 400, when it was available; I think I have one more roll of 120. I must have gone through hundreds of rolls/sheets of that stuff, and made some of my most satisfying images with it.
fenderbja
9-Mar-2010, 16:05
Brandon-
I like the spontaneous quality of your portrait. It looks more like MF work than most LF work I see. With view cameras, focus is so critical due to the typically shallow dof at close working distances, and due to the shutter lag between composition and exposure, any impression of movement is rare in this kind of work. Well done.
eg-
Some of the more technique-minded might find fault with your image, but I like the intimate, casual feel of it, and given your improvised scanning method, I can imagine a real print would look considerably more hi-fi. I used to use a lot of EDU 100 and EDU 400, when it was available; I think I have one more roll of 120. I must have gone through hundreds of rolls/sheets of that stuff, and made some of my most satisfying images with it.
Thank you for your comments - I love the shallow DOF of large format + slightly longer focal length. With that exposure and this additional one i just posted I used a slight forward tilt to gently throw out everything but the eyes (or in this case the eye). Then it's a matter of pleading with the subject to not move!
http://www.brandonallenphotography.com/posts/michelle7.jpg
Jay DeFehr
9-Mar-2010, 18:00
Very nice work. A patient and steady subject is truly a gift to a LF portraitist!
Frank Petronio
9-Mar-2010, 18:40
Jack Dahlgren Kudos (and you too!)
Tri Tran
9-Mar-2010, 22:24
Phillip Stewart Charis
Kodak 8A / Cooke 27 inches Portrait lens
F4.5/ 5 sec . Soft #1
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8786/philipscharis.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/i/philipscharis.jpg/)
A Master Portrait Photograher
http://www.phillipstewartcharis.com/home.html
Phillip Stewart Charis
Kodak 8A / Cooke 27 inches Portrait lens
F4.5/ 5 sec . Soft #1
A Master Portrait Photograher
http://www.phillipstewartcharis.com/home.html
great work with that lens! what size neg?
Ramiro Elena
10-Mar-2010, 06:23
Is this considered a portrait?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2785/4390250457_d9739aa30a_b.jpg
Jim Galli
10-Mar-2010, 07:23
Phillip Stewart Charis
Kodak 8A / Cooke 27 inches Portrait lens
F4.5/ 5 sec . Soft #1
A Master Portrait Photograher
http://www.phillipstewartcharis.com/home.html
A stunning achievement. 5 seconds?? or 1/5th? Was he the previous owner of the lens?
jack_hui
10-Mar-2010, 08:11
8x10 HP5
Cooke PS945, F4.5, 1/4 Sec
HC110, 1:49, 9:30min, 20DegC (ND)
Wife and daugther (she moves!)
http://www.pbase.com/jack_hui/image/122636248.jpg
Tri Tran
10-Mar-2010, 10:11
Hi Jim.
Yes, it's 5 sec exposure with 40 inches bellow extended. Indoor available light was used.He's not the 2nd owner, Dwayne Ealy was.
Eddie,
It's 11x14 and I 'm still looking for an 8x10 original reducing back too. Let me know when you have 1 coming across.
A stunning achievement. 5 seconds?? or 1/5th? Was he the previous owner of the lens?
Miguel Coquis
10-Mar-2010, 10:38
[QUOTE=jack_hui;567883]8x10 HP5
Cooke PS945, F4.5, 1/4 Sec
HC110, 1:49, 9:30min, 20DegC (ND)
Wife and daugther (she moves!)
... they stop moving when they sleep :) or at t:1/125 !!!!
joyful picture Jack, hope you'll post some more.
Abraham
f16 1/250 on expired tmax 400.
Emil Schildt
10-Mar-2010, 14:46
Is this considered a portrait?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2785/4390250457_d9739aa30a_b.jpg
ooh yes - this is one of the most interesting portraits I have seen in a long while...
details?
Ramiro Elena
10-Mar-2010, 15:19
Thanks!!
It's this silly little 50mm Dallmeyer projection lens (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/4403800690/). I got it thinking I could try putting into a Polaroid Land 250 and ended up making a lens board both for a Hasselblad and the Toyo 45A. It can only do macro. Taking the front element off I can step a few cm away from the subject. I might have placed a Copal 0 shutter in front for picture taking.
I kinda screwed up the Rembrandt effect, but I still like it:
http://brianthedellphotography.com/3_10_10/Untitled-1.jpg
ethics_gradient
11-Mar-2010, 14:43
Brandon-
eg-
Some of the more technique-minded might find fault with your image, but I like the intimate, casual feel of it, and given your improvised scanning method, I can imagine a real print would look considerably more hi-fi. I used to use a lot of EDU 100 and EDU 400, when it was available; I think I have one more roll of 120. I must have gone through hundreds of rolls/sheets of that stuff, and made some of my most satisfying images with it.
Thank you for the kind words. I was having trouble getting the image in the ground glass properly in focus without a proper loupe, so I kind of guestimated. It looks like I missed focus on the closest eye by a little bit.
I didn't know EDU 400 used to be available in 4x5, what a shame that I missed it!
Milosz Wozaczynski
11-Mar-2010, 15:22
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/5208/20321193.jpg
5x7, fomapan 100, zeiss jena 250mm
Tri Tran
11-Mar-2010, 22:17
Here's another one from Cooke 16 inches with wide open, soft 2 at 5 sec exposure . FS 8x10 Studio. I love this camera !
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7955/errol8x10.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/i/errol8x10.jpg/)
Errol Higgins
http://www.errolhiggins.com/
Jay DeFehr
12-Mar-2010, 10:01
Thank you for the kind words. I was having trouble getting the image in the ground glass properly in focus without a proper loupe, so I kind of guestimated. It looks like I missed focus on the closest eye by a little bit.
I didn't know EDU 400 used to be available in 4x5, what a shame that I missed it!
Focusing a LF camera is always a challenge. and compromise is often necessary. A good loupe makes a big difference.
Arista Edu was Forte, and I used a lot of that stuff in a lot of formats, up to 8x10. I have an 8x10 portrait of my youngest son that I really like, made on Edu/Forte 400 and developed in a rapid universal developer I formulated. I'd post it here, but it was made several years ago.
I have yet to make a LF portrait this month- maybe before it ends I'll have one to contribute.
Jay DeFehr
12-Mar-2010, 10:07
Tri,
Beautifully luminous portrait! Mr. Higgins reminds me of Anthony Hopkins, a little.
Allen in Montreal
12-Mar-2010, 12:23
Very nice!
Here's another one from Cooke 16 inches with wide open, soft 2 at 5 sec exposure . FS 8x10 Studio. I love this camera !
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7955/errol8x10.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/i/errol8x10.jpg/)
Errol Higgins
http://www.errolhiggins.com/
My black-background portrait grind continues...
http://brianthedellphotography.com/3_12_10/Untitled-2.jpg
trying out a ROC 1 1/2 meniscus lens.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/3/5/7/8/5/0/webimg/355063660_o.jpg
please forgive the water stains on the neg. scan of a print
Rick Tardiff
13-Mar-2010, 06:12
another first for me, trying my hand at portraiture with the 4x5. I shot this with the rodenstock 210mm at F8@1/2. I have also been been trying to get up to speed with the Fujifilm FP-100B45. I scanned this on the V700.
Jim Fitzgerald
14-Mar-2010, 20:23
One of my three sons while we were on a trip to Yosemite. 8x10 carbon transfer print.
8x10 x-ray film @ 80 Fuji 240 F-22 at about 4 seconds?
Jim
Miguel Coquis
16-Mar-2010, 12:13
Sunny and warm again !!!
RB 3x4 converted 4x5
Wide open
Exposure lecture at 200 asa 1/4000 sec
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Autumn%20Portraits/Sun.jpg
Exposed:
t:1/1000 sec f:2,5
Dev
tmax 1/16
Jeremy Moore
16-Mar-2010, 14:57
Sunny and warm again !!!
RB 3x4 converted 4x5
Wide open
Exposure lecture at 200 asa 1/4000 sec
Exposed:
t:1/1000 sec f:2,5
Dev
tmax 1/16
Gorgeous, Miguel. Shades of Weston, imo.
brian mcweeney
16-Mar-2010, 16:45
The Barber.
Tri Tran
16-Mar-2010, 17:47
Dylan at his homework break!...Daddy camera ready... set... ...and here we go .
F/S 8x10
Hermagis #2 @ F7 1/2 sec
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9997/dylanhermagis2.jpg (http://img11.imageshack.us/i/dylanhermagis2.jpg/)
Jim Galli
16-Mar-2010, 19:00
Dylan at his homework break!...Daddy camera ready... set... ...and here we go .
F/S 8x10
Hermagis #2 @ F7 1/2 sec
Beautifully done. Understated and spot on.
Dirk Rösler
16-Mar-2010, 22:15
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4439460447_b06e44f3cd_o.jpg
Biker couple, from my very early 4x5 days. Focus is a little funky. Taken on Astia I think. Lens is 120/5.6 APO-Symmar L
Anders Korhonen
17-Mar-2010, 01:00
Not too ambitious testing of a 21cm technika-heliar 4,5 @4,5, Ridiculously sharp for being wideopen, not visible in this sorry scan with tiny sensor dslr@iso400 though. I'm astounded... Txp320@160 in tanol.
Anders Korhonen
17-Mar-2010, 03:46
Same as the above, she always blinks when shutter goes, even with the compound being a surprisingly quiet one =)
monkeymon
17-Mar-2010, 07:11
Sunny and warm again !!!
RB 3x4 converted 4x5
Wide open
Exposure lecture at 200 asa 1/4000 sec
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Autumn%20Portraits/Sun.jpg
Exposed:
t:1/1000 sec f:2,5
Dev
tmax 1/16
i like it, and makes me feel like a fool for taking only one portrait with my 9x12 slr / aero combo in the time i have had it..
Anders Korhonen
17-Mar-2010, 12:08
chs25 in tanol
Mark Sawyer
17-Mar-2010, 12:54
Anders; stunning and beautiful work!
Anders Korhonen
17-Mar-2010, 13:09
Thanks Mark! I've just finally got a combiplan and have some 50-100 sheets to do =) Next stop: a darkroom
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4441354757_0775c67787_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4441354757/)
Getting very fed up with my Canoscan 8600f...
djcphoto
17-Mar-2010, 17:14
Anders, I agree, pretty amazing work! I love that film too!
Robert Hughes
18-Mar-2010, 09:01
Nice, Anders. Got a "daughter with homework" shot here, testing the "X" flash setting on my shutter - 4x5 Era film to cyanotype:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4443441322_fcb1355bea.jpg
tgtaylor
18-Mar-2010, 11:17
Here's my first portrait:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4443041229_abf9bda27f.jpg
A member of my photography group got engaged and several of us were invited to practice "working with models." Everyone was shooting DSLR except me - Toyo-Field 45AX, 210mm Schneider Symmer-S, Pentax 400AF flash, on Fuju Pro 160S. Printed last night to 8x10 on Fuji CA.
lenicolas
18-Mar-2010, 13:44
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4441354757_0775c67787_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4441354757/)
Getting very fed up with my Canoscan 8600f...
morca, besides from the blue toning, this scan seems fine ; it's sharp, with details in shadows and no blown highlights.
You just need to correct your color balance, when scanning OR with photoshop afterward.
Thanks, lenicolas.
However, I'd adjusted the image to look as much like the original slide as I could, (it was overexposed a half-stop, with slight flare) I prefer the washed out look.
My real quarrel with the 8600f is that it wasn't designed to do film larger than 120, so I have to stitch multiple scans together for 4x5. And that I can't adjust focus points.
Well, and that it's hopeless for higher contrast scans. I just finished scanning 4 rolls of Velvia 100, and the scans are pale (or rather, stark) shadows of the original slides.
Hugo Zhang
18-Mar-2010, 19:57
B&L Projector Lens. J&C 100 film and Kodak 2D 8x10 camera.
Tri Tran
18-Mar-2010, 22:16
B&L Projector Lens. J&C 100 film and Kodak 2D 8x10 camera.
He looks just like you and I like the profile #2. Keep them coming and make the pictures a little bigger please. Thanks
Jim Galli
18-Mar-2010, 22:23
B&L Projector Lens. J&C 100 film and Kodak 2D 8x10 camera.
Good lookin' kids Hugo! You must be gettin' old ;)
Hugo Zhang
18-Mar-2010, 23:19
Good lookin' kids Hugo! You must be gettin' old ;)
“The son unborn mars beauty: born, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care. He is a male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friends his father's enemy." :)
This is actually in January in Bangkok, but gets published this month:
http://www.creep.lt/linkout/split1.jpg
B&L Projector Lens. J&C 100 film and Kodak 2D 8x10 camera.
kodak 2d?!?!!? you know, i know this guy that sells real nice and light beautiful cameras with lots of movements....i will send you his name! BWAH HA HA!
He looks just like you and I like the profile #2. Keep them coming and make the pictures a little bigger please. Thanks
tri, click on the picture, they get a bit bigger.
This is actually in January in Bangkok, but gets published this month:
creep, simply awesome!
Michael Roberts
19-Mar-2010, 04:12
“The son unborn mars beauty: born, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care. He is a male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friends his father's enemy." :)
damn...glad I have daughters...;)
tgtaylor
19-Mar-2010, 10:32
“The son unborn mars beauty: born, he brings pain, divides affection, increases care. He is a male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friends his father's enemy." :)
"Look at me, I am old but I am happy." A Cat Stevens tune playing on the sound system at the Starbucks I am sitting in.
Milosz Wozaczynski
19-Mar-2010, 16:56
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9906/45010884.jpg
r09, 5x7, Kodak EA
ethics_gradient
19-Mar-2010, 19:12
Everyone was shooting DSLR except me - Toyo-Field 45AX, 210mm Schneider Symmer-S, Pentax 400AF flash, on Fuju Pro 160S.
I love being "that guy" :p
This is actually in January in Bangkok, but gets published this month:
http://www.creep.lt/linkout/split1.jpg
Nice! Th. Yaowarat in Chinatown, right?
Hugo Zhang
19-Mar-2010, 20:09
This is actually in January in Bangkok, but gets published this month:
http://www.creep.lt/linkout/split1.jpg
Tomas,
Tell us more about the making of this picture. It's just an unbelievable freeze of THE moment. The lighting, the model's flowing hair, everything. How could you pull if off with a LF camera? Did you just put your tripod on that busy street?
It's beautiful!
Hugo
Hi, thanks for warm words :)
Yes its Yaowarat Rd, morning.
The freeze is actually 1/60 (as far as i remember), all the makeup and hair are done by the professionals from M.A.C cosmetics Thailand. There are around 8 to 10 people behind this shot including me - the assistants, stylists, makeup etc.
Yes, there is a tripod, i'm not handholding F2 with 210 ApoSymmar with front rise, shifts and swings applied to both standards and lens almost quite open. ;))
quite an artsy making-of / teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqaU5ABPjZo
Tomas,
Tell us more about the making of this picture. It's just an unbelievable freeze of THE moment. The lighting, the model's flowing hair, everything. How could you pull if off with a LF camera? Did you just put your tripod on that busy street?
It's beautiful!
Hugo
Here's another one.
http://www.creep.lt/linkout/split2.jpg
Miguel Coquis
20-Mar-2010, 11:54
premiers amours....
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Printemps/Love-000.jpg
5x7
300 mm
f:2,5
Hugo Zhang
20-Mar-2010, 12:18
Miguel,
Lovely, very lovely! :)
What 300mm lens has a f/2.5 opening?
Allen in Montreal
20-Mar-2010, 12:22
premiers amours....
5x7
300 mm
f:2,5
Miguel,
Very nice.
Is that your "little sweetie" ?
With her "little sweetie" ?
Are you now a granddaddy? :)
Miguel Coquis
20-Mar-2010, 12:28
Miguel,
Lovely, very lovely! :)
What 300mm lens has a f/2.5 opening?
Glad you enjoy, there is a pic of camera/lens on "show off your camera " thread.
It is the big Kodak lens.
Miguel,
Very nice.
Is that your "little sweetie" ?
With her "little sweetie" ?
Are you now a granddaddy? :)
Yeah, three grand little girls and one grand little boy (the one in this pic with my younger daughter) !
JRFrench
20-Mar-2010, 12:44
Miguel that's an amazing shot. Im generally not a fond of the 'soft' look but that one is perfect. Enough sharpness to give focus to their faces and her profile, but not enough to become clinical or to draw attention to a tiny depth of field.
Miguel Coquis
20-Mar-2010, 13:41
Miguel that's an amazing shot. In generally not a fond of the 'soft' look but that one is perfect. Enough sharpness to give focus to their faces and her profile, but not enough to become clinical or to draw attention to a tiny depth of field.
Camera movements and orientation are of great help when focusing wide open, subject position, light quality, momentum...
all these needs some awareness, step by step...
Thanks for your appreciation.
jack_hui
20-Mar-2010, 19:01
Camera movements and orientation are of great help when focusing wide open, subject position, light quality, momentum...
all these needs some awareness, step by step...
Thanks for your appreciation.
Your pictures might rise the price of aero len!! :cool:
Miguel Coquis
21-Mar-2010, 02:45
Your pictures might rise the price of aero len!! :cool:
well.....,
have not seen any of these (aero len!!) for sale out there !
Miguel Coquis
21-Mar-2010, 03:04
premiers amours...
toujours, et encore,
vive le printemps !!!
http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Printemps/Love-001.jpg
this one is a little lens
Zeiss 165 mm f:2,7
soft like a ... baby:)
jack_hui
21-Mar-2010, 03:31
This is ..... great!!!
Is this Tessar len?
Miguel Coquis
21-Mar-2010, 03:48
This is ..... great!!!
Is this Tessar len?
It is written Carl Zeiss Jena 165 mm f:2,7 but do not know anything else about, only that it is "fast" and seems to be semi wide. Covers up to 5x7".
Got it by a member here on our great LFF.
jack_hui
21-Mar-2010, 05:30
any picture of the len?
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4462/noah1h.jpg
Noah
5x7" Alumitype
Century 8A Studio Camera with Dallmeyer 3A Petzval Portrait lens
f/4 @ 24 seconds
CdBr/NH4I collodion, KCN
kev curry
21-Mar-2010, 16:29
Wow that's awesome!
A.J. Dickson
21-Mar-2010, 17:00
It is written Carl Zeiss Jena 165 mm f:2,7 but do not know anything else about, only that it is "fast" and seems to be semi wide. Covers up to 5x7".
Got it by a member here on our great LFF.
I think this is the lens you got from me. Glad to see yo are making good use of it . That is a lovely photo.
Wow that's awesome!
Thanks Kev! I finally opened up my studio and had some people over for a portrait session and wet plate demo. It was some crazy fun.
Miguel Coquis
21-Mar-2010, 17:27
I think this is the lens you got from me. Glad to see yo are making good use of it . That is a lovely photo.
Yeah ! Thanks for your appreciation !
I remember you wanted to see what I was going to do with it.
It works well in interiors, out doors it is very shy in front of high lights.
Glad to find you again through this thread.
Hugo Zhang
21-Mar-2010, 19:13
Barry,
It's beautiful portrait! 24 seconds almost sounds eternity for many sitters and that's why wet plate portraiture has that interesting eyes! :)
Mystery Jig
21-Mar-2010, 22:43
http://mysteryjig.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/eric_worthley.jpg
My friend Eric poses for a 5×7 wet plate collodion tintype (on aluminum) wearing some of his Society for Creative Anachronism battle gear. That’s a two-handed Scottish broadsword, known as a claymore, he’s got in his hands. The hand tooled, leather scabbard was made by his father. He doesn’t use the claymore when he’s actually fighting. At that point, he uses a considerably less pointy sword made of rattan.
With a Star Camera Co. full plate camera and a German petzval lens at 10 seconds.
Samuli Haataja
22-Mar-2010, 11:38
Here is my March portrait. Taken with Polaroid 120 pathfinder, 4x5 hp5+, natural light.
BTW Just joined this forum. I'm new to large format and I've found this place a great resource.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4454474723_aa93dcf3c5.jpg
8x10, Wollensak Petzval, something like 10" F5
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4454474779_d7202878e2.jpg
8x10, Graf Variable 14-16 @16" F4.5
kontrafej
23-Mar-2010, 03:44
8x10"
Sinar p2 with copal shutter.
Schneider Symmar S 300/5.6 at f.16
Tri-X 320. D-76
/Christer
Kerik Kouklis
23-Mar-2010, 08:31
Some new portraits from this past Sunday. All are 8x10 collodion on aluminum. Kodak Masterview, Derogy Portrait Petzval.
http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/3/1/1/lizzy.jpg
http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/3/1/1/tommy2.jpg
http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/3/1/1/anna_lizzy.jpg
Steve M Hostetter
26-Mar-2010, 12:34
8x10" paper neg, dektol 24" Prince's& bro.
Steve M Hostetter
26-Mar-2010, 12:37
8x10" paper neg, dektol 1:1, 24" Prince's & Bro. f8.0
Steve M Hostetter
26-Mar-2010, 12:40
5 yr.old great nephew took this,, 4x5" 165mm triX scanned in color
kev curry
26-Mar-2010, 14:07
I surprised no one has commented on this little gem.
Here is my March portrait. Taken with Polaroid 120 pathfinder, 4x5 hp5+, natural light.
BTW Just joined this forum. I'm new to large format and I've found this place a great resource.
Deniz Merdanogullari
27-Mar-2010, 08:49
Some fujiroids from thursday's session with Julian
Speed Graphic, 135/4.5, fuji fp-100c, sunpak fill flash on the facing one.
Deardorff 810
Derogy Petzval
FP4
LC29
Stephane
27-Mar-2010, 10:23
woaw!
Hugo Zhang
27-Mar-2010, 12:29
Deardorff 810
Derogy Petzval
FP4
LC29
Wow, this is a good one! The swirl on the background is just rihgt, not too crazy. Post it in Chinese LLF and they will drive up price of Petzval lenses. Like Tri did in Vietnam LLF. :)
Jim Galli
27-Mar-2010, 12:36
Deardorff 810
Derogy Petzval
FP4
LC29
I love the pose and the idea but the amount of photoshop stress to make the face jump out of the image troubles me. Petzval on steroids. Petzval doesn't need the steroids.
Hugo Zhang
27-Mar-2010, 13:16
Oh, I didn't know it's photoshopped. I thought it was some darkroom dodging and burning. I agree with you, Jim.
alon96,
Beautiful eye catching photograph. Thanks for posting!
Ted
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2713/4472215544_a26801654b_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crooked_style/4472215544/)
Tri Tran
28-Mar-2010, 22:02
Taken with a 20 Inches Hermagis with 8x10 reducing back on the F/S.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7017/jonp.jpg (http://img265.imageshack.us/i/jonp.jpg/)
Tri Tran
29-Mar-2010, 20:34
Jessica with 18 inches Verito on 8x10 reducing back.
F 5.6 .
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2531/jessicaamd.jpg (http://img17.imageshack.us/i/jessicaamd.jpg/)
Same lens was used here.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6236/thao.jpg (http://img534.imageshack.us/i/thao.jpg/)
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7751/wendyf.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/i/wendyf.jpg/)
And thanks everyone for checking.
dupont07
30-Mar-2010, 00:40
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4471919875_7e1870611b.jpg
Tessar 260 4.5
5x7
Ilford HP 5
TT,
nice collection of images.
e
craig nye
30-Mar-2010, 15:48
shot for an underground music magazine article. Cambo 4x5 monorail, 150mm F5.6 Symmar-S then cropped a little to suit layout. Kodak Portra 400NC, some light colour treatments in post.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4476293470_6b7ca44713_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4475524619_c9b5e2ed8b_b.jpg
Tri Tran
30-Mar-2010, 16:27
TT,
nice collection of images.
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Thanks Eddie.
Hugo & Friends ! Here's the Hermagis 20 inches for your review next to the Edoscope #2 and the Hermagis #6.
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9094/petzval16incheshermagis.jpg (http://img246.imageshack.us/i/petzval16incheshermagis.jpg/)
Hugo Zhang
30-Mar-2010, 19:36
Tri,
That's a bad lens. You really need to use that lens on your 20x24 to get all the swirls out in the background. :)
Hugo
Tiziano
31-Mar-2010, 07:54
shot for an underground music magazine article. Cambo 4x5 monorail, 150mm F5.6 Symmar-S then cropped a little to suit layout. Kodak Portra 400NC, some light colour treatments in post.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4476293470_6b7ca44713_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4475524619_c9b5e2ed8b_b.jpg
Very nice lightning. How did you achieve that? A huge window light just over the camera?
Thanks.
Tiziano
Robert Oliver
31-Mar-2010, 09:13
without being able to zoom in on the eyes to magnify the catch light, I would say a large octagon softbox just above and slightly to the side of the camera.
Rick Tardiff
31-Mar-2010, 15:46
After 6 months I feel like I am making a little headway with this wonderful format. The work continues! Here is my latest attempt at a portrait with the ebony RW45 with a 210mm lens on tmax 100. Thanks to everyone who continue to help me along the way. Rick
craig nye
31-Mar-2010, 15:51
Very nice lightning. How did you achieve that? A huge window light just over the camera?
Thanks.
Tiziano
strip softbox, verticle, just above camera.
i like the idea. you could work on your development technic ;)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4471919875_7e1870611b.jpg
Tessar 260 4.5
5x7
Ilford HP 5
dupont07
31-Mar-2010, 22:38
thanks Boris, it's my second pic of LF. I'm just starting to learn about shooting LF
Tiziano
31-Mar-2010, 23:54
strip softbox, verticle, just above camera.
Thanks Craig, that's interesting. I'll try this setup!
Tiziano
Ramiro Elena
1-Apr-2010, 13:04
It's April but it was shot in March :D
Petzval 4x5.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4482523856_35d82fc76b_b.jpg
Jeffrey Sipress
4-Apr-2010, 17:55
Since I never photograph people (with rare exception), I've never participated in one of these 'portrait' threads. But I did make a portrait of sorts recently. This is an old terra cotta bust that I found in the Gladding McBean pottery company, in Lincoln, CA. GMcB produced a lot of architectural details for large city buildings and structures. Been around since 1875. Now they mostly make clay sewer and water pipe, and work on architectural restoration. But, a lot of old stuff is still laying around the factory. This statue probably was a second, or reject, and legend has it that is a likeness or Ray Crock.
Ebony SV45U, Rodenstock S 150, Delta 100.
http://machinearts.com/fredphotos/raycrock.jpg
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