August 2012 Portraits

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Walden Pond by Paul McEvoy, on Flickr

Paul,

I'm enjoying these recent portraits you've posted. Straightforward, simple, direct. Thumbs up!

Jonathan

Yeah Paul! Great stuff lately, looks like you got things working well ~ Same for you Ben ;-p

Thanks guys. Wish it were easier, sometimes feels like pulling teeth. But when I get a good one, I'm happy. Suffering artist and all that.

I have been experimenting with a more formal portraiture style. I have only just started playing around with lighting a bit more. Shot on a Horseman LE with 210mm lens. Film was fujifilm Acros developed in Rodinal. Scanned via a epson V700.

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Originally Posted by ecoleica

I have been experimenting with a more formal portraiture style. I have only just started playing around with lighting a bit more. Shot on a Horseman LE with 210mm lens. Film was fujifilm Acros developed in Rodinal. Scanned via a epson V700.

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That's good light dude. Good northern european art light. My only thought would be it would be nice to have a small (very small) amount of kicker behind her to separate her hair from the black background.

Not really a critique but I'll apologize anyway. Very nice.

8x10, Gundlach Radar 8x10, Arista EDU

testing with upcoming model (as in human, not as in camera/film/lens :))

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Weslee by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

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Weslee by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by sully75

That's good light dude. Good northern european art light. My only thought would be it would be nice to have a small (very small) amount of kicker behind her to separate her hair from the black background.

Not really a critique but I'll apologize anyway. Very nice.

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No probs...that's the first thing I said when I was setting up the shot. I only had one lit with me so I had to make do! Thanks for the critique tho!

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Originally Posted by Scott Schroeder

5X7 ambrotype

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Scott, this is a beautiful picture. I love the subtleties of light and the texture of the windows. I am inspired to learn wetplate photography.

-Daniel

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Originally Posted by ecoleica

No probs...that's the first thing I said when I was setting up the shot. I only had one lit with me so I had to make do! Thanks for the critique tho!

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You could bounce light with a piece of foamcore behind her to get that little bit of seperation and still only use one light. If you don't mind me saying, in addition, I think the shot might have been a tiny bit better if you had short lit her-i.e. put the light on the left side of her face so that the closer side is in shadow.

Still I like the light a lot. What was it? Softbox? It's nice and soft but not wishy washy.