The light is spectacular in this!Quote:
Originally Posted by sully75
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The light is spectacular in this!Quote:
Originally Posted by sully75
Thanks. I do feel like the camera has a lot to do with it. I can't remember which of these guys, I think the one on the right, stopped me because he was excited about the camera. It makes things a lot easier. The camera I use is kind of crude, only front fall, rear swing and tilt. Not a great piece of work but it's very pretty in wood and people really respond to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrTang
That's with the 180mm lens which for the record is a little wide to use as 1 lens system, but I'm using a 240mm these days too, good two lens kit it seems. I'd go 210mm if I was doing 1 lens.
Thanks Scott. Just after sundown, I think I got f8 1/4 or something like that. Warm sun coming in over the trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott --
Kinda kicking myself because it took me till July to get rolling with the big camera. There's so much of that good light here for a couple of months but it's starting to go already. I'll be out tonight at 6 though doing a portrait of a friend, it's dark by 7:45...
I really like the lines of that second shot and the way the background falls off. The setting and wistful pose are rather pleasant too. Can you tell me the technical details... what lens & format (4x5 or 8x10) ?Quote:
Originally Posted by D-tach
Also, I love the flutter of the dress.
Thanks for posting them
Serge S
Thanks Serge,
4x5 Efke 25 and Cooke PS945 wide open
Tom
the second shot is great! I agree the dress fluttering in the wind really make the image have feeling.
Thanks Tom. I've always been intrigued by that Cooke lens. You put it to good use:)
Serge
Another shot with the Kodak 305 portrait lens.
D-tach that second one is truly excellent, the dress fluters are very cool.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/7...4c740ac7_c.jpg
4x5, 150 Apo Symmar, Portra 400
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Originally Posted by benrains
I find this portrait very interesting. At first the models hands look awkwardly posed, however her indignant expression matches them. Thus it is balanced out.
Very good work. I also like the lighting.
I really like the out-of-focus highlights in the background on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke79
Thanks Serge, Stradibarrius and Frank.
AWESOME!
r
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Originally Posted by Frank Petronio
Frank, I wonder why you do not use BN film instead of PortraQuote:
Originally Posted by rpalm
but after that you convert in gray. Awesome, congrat. as usual.
I would think that the power to change any of the hues(tones in BW) or channels would be an asset. Like having a whole stack of filters at your finger tips, taking up no space at all.
Her outfit could be yellow in RL for all we know.
4x5 Graphic View / Arista 100
http://www.keepsakephotography.us/4x5/Brooke4x5.jpg
Charlotte again, on the remains of Hitlers Atlantikwall in Leffrinckoucke, France
Imagon 250 this time, Efke 25 - cropped and toned
Did I just mention Hitler...?
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8302/7...2fdbe140_b.jpg
Jim. I'm glad that you kept this lens . Wonderful shot of Kelvin Portrait. Very much of Alcapone look.
Frank, gorgeous, simple but gorgeous.. this works no matter the format, and that is what good photography is all about in my opinion. Good stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank Petronio
Lovely job Pfiltz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfiltz
Thanks. This was shot after some of her senior pics. She let me play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathan67
Thats how I get people to sit for LF.... if I have time at the end of a shoot I pull out one of my LF cameras... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfiltz
I like the placement of the model on the right side of the frame. This gives space on the left for her eyes to look into.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank Petronio
I like the horizontal lines in the soft background which "mimic" her line of sight.
I like the contrast of her dark hair and clothes which separate her from the lighter non distracting background.
This is a very well designed portrait. I like!
My back hurts just *looking* at that pose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank Petronio
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Originally Posted by Jiri Vasina
What a great smile! Thanks for sharing this. I've used the Softar with digital and the Tiffen softe FX with medium format but this is the first time I've seen it used in large format. With APC sized digital, the facets of the filter are very distracting resulting in the need for a fair bit of noise reduction. But large format appears to work great!
Thanks Alan.Quote:
Originally Posted by alanbutler57
For me the Softar filter is practicaly unusable for APC sized digital precisely because it's too distracting, too obvious. It occasionally works well with my medium format camera (Fuji GW690 with a 90mm lens). The best results I have achieved with LF, be it with the Symmar 300mm, Xenar 210mm or even with Apo-Ronar 480mm (all shot on 13×18cm film)...
Jiri
http://www.artlimited.net/user/0/0/2..._img404829.jpg
Marek
Globica 13x18 + Zeiss Tessar 210/3.5
10sec f3.5
13x18cm Black Glass Ambrotype
Crown Graphic/FP4/HC110C B
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8297/7...f4b2c743_c.jpg
I want to add some criticism because I posted a picture of a woman with a tree growing out of her head. I tried to avoid it when I shot, and I tried to suppress it in the print. But it's there and I can't do anything about it now. Actually, I can but I'm four prints in and that's where I stop. Next time, if I print that shot again, I will use New Coccine. When I was considering New Coccine originally I thought it would be totally illogical to have a palm tree frond without a trunk, so I didn't retouch the neg at all. After looking at the dry and finished print, I realized I only needed to lighten (not eliminate) the tree. Then it would only look like atmospheric haze.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Burk
Glad to see you are putting it to good use!Quote:
Originally Posted by mathieu Bauwens
Thank you Jammo.
It's a pleasure to use.