Please show me press camera portrait samples
I am thinking of an effective way to shoot 4x5 portraits and wondering how well handheld press cameras with RFs work. I am looking for the conventional approach to portraits: head or bust shots, wide open with a pin sharp plane of focus on the eyes and smooth OOF backgrounds. How accurate is framing and focusing. Also, in your experience, what are the shutter speed ranges you can handhold?
Thanks for examples and thoughts on this.
Re: Please show me press camera portrait samples
anupam,
google Sanders McNew, if I remember right, or Frank Petronio, he shot a lot of his alt lifestyle work on a 4x5 press (Linhof or speed if I remember)
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Thanks, Erie. I'll take a look.I think Sanders uses a tele-rollei mostly, though and they both use strobes. I'm mostly thinking of available light candid stuff.
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this is me taken by my grandaughter on my 5x4 crown graphix
bob
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anupam
a lot of the black and white portraits on my website
were done with a press camera ( speed graphic )
none were hand held though, all tripod.
i use a lumedyne flash with the shutter around 1/30 or 1/60 and stop down
to around 11 or 16 with the flash set to 100 ws or 200 ws ( "tupperware lid diffuser" ).
i hand hold the flash and bounce off a nearby wall or low ceiling.
sometimes i put the flash to 50ws and use a faster shutter speed and direct the
flash right to the subject ... sometimes no flash at all ...
it all depends on the space, the person, the situation and the portrait ...
a few were shot with a 35mm, and 6x6 the sameway---camera on tripod, flash off camera ... &C
good luck!
john
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I handheld a lot, if not most, of my 4x5 shots, but I always had a stick up my ass to steady me.
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Originally Posted by
Frank Petronio
I handheld a lot, if not most, of my 4x5 shots, but I always had a stick up my ass to steady me.
From all the models I thought you simply steadied yourself with a natural tripod arrangement ;)
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Originally Posted by
Ash
From all the models I thought you simply steadied yourself with a natural tripod arrangement ;)
You're overrating Frank ;-)