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
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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
It worth. She surely happy for it.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/...fa8b4a89_b.jpg
FP4+ 4x5 Fujinon 360mm 1/8th @ f 8.2
Jeremy D. Moore
Pancake
what a nice start for December :)
daughters.... one of favorite subjects !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Allen in Montreal
at the end the question is who tortures who ???!!!
Nice shot Allen !
Allen and Jeremy booth are very nice ones, like them much!
Cheers Armin
Nieces and Nephew in my backyard last Easter.
Efke 25, 14" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens
Color scan? Looks selenium toned. Love the color/hue.Quote:
Originally Posted by MenacingTourist
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.
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
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/phot...81/9x12cm3.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.
Yes, a great shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miguel Coquis
And regarding torture
Grandkids are Gods reward to you for not killing your kids :D
Best regards
For me, there's something seriously wrong with this photo - and it's not anything technical, to make it quite clear...Quote:
Originally Posted by leighmarrin
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by leighmarrin
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.
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Originally Posted by Mike1234
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
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/foru...t=73622&page=8
Wow, beautiful shots! 20x24 wet plates sounds like fun :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty McCutchen
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.
I often shoot homeless, but I sit with them and hear their stories too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Denis Pleic
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allen in Montreal
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.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/...2944792c_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/2009/1...anaka-gallery/
Dear Monty,
These images are spectacular... :)
If your have a moment, please show more of your work.
Well done, young man.
jim k
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Originally Posted by leighmarrin
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Originally Posted by Denis Pleic
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Originally Posted by Mike1234
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Donald Miller
December already huh? Wow, time goes by fast. Here's mine taken with the 360mm Imagon.
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9...0912020001.jpg
Happy Holidays everyone!
"...can be construed as giving the finger to the photographer. Just look at the expression on his face.
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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.
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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
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.
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
Troubling, because of some personal mutual respect issues, but I agree with everything you said. Even worse, you said it well. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by r.e.
http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/img005a.jpg
Sinar P, 250mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
4x5 TMY, Pyrocat HD
Two recent images...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2669/...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/...3a51880f5f.jpg
Deardorff 8x10 using a 5x7 reducing back
Caltar-S II 360/6.8
Ilford HP5 Plus / Rodinal 1+50.
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
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. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jon.oman
"Wow! An image from the future!"
It's comforting to know that film will be available in the future !
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Lee
Beautiful images, Monty. I can only imagine what they look like in real life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty McCutchen
Thanks Maestro - We have you to thank for the stylistic inspiration and technical know-how.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Galli
Whoops...I wasn't suppose to let anyone know. Anyone want to know who wins the 2010 WorldSeries? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jon.oman
In my defense, I scanned and posted that image at about 4am this morning after a long night of shooting and developing.
Vaughn
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/...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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddie
http://ambrotype.ru/photos/wet-plate/ambro-alice003.jpg
Igor Bryakilev, "Wonderland" Series, ambrotype 8x10"
thanks jim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Galli
eddie
Powerful and menacing, unreal Eddie, bravo!
This is lovely...thanks for sharingQuote:
Originally Posted by MenacingTourist
The bizarreness is this image is surreal...wish there are a lot more of it:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by vphill
Rob
Alexey, great photo. Really well done. Great portfolio on your website as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by unrealalex
Thanks for sharing, Brian.
Dallas. Buy a damn print.