July 2013 Portraits

[GSX4]

Here are a few more from last weekend. I was fortunate enough to shoot tintypes of local MN based musician Grant Hart... Formerly the drummer of Husker Du in the 80's. i shot some more tins of him earlier in the year for his new album release coming out in July, called "The Argument." Anyway, these are the ones we did last Saturday... All were 8x10 2 shot in my studio, and 2 outside.

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[jp]

Been reading Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 (Portland Museum of Art) in furthering my interest in pictorialism. Like Day and Clarence White, I have a special affinity for the Maine woods. I notice their images of youth in the daytime light dappled woods is an immense technical challenge I'm still figuring out. Looks like I should stick to simpler clothes for a contemporary compromise; putting up buck naked children on the Internet wouldn't be that wise these days, so I'm not looking to emulate dead photographers that closely, and highly patterned clothing like this is too distracting. The old pictorialists got really soft images that looked pretty nice; I shot these at f6.6 when I usually use f8 with the 190mm reinhold wollaston meniscus; a 1/3 stop makes a big difference in softness on that lens. Uncorking the aperture to increase softness is either precisely calculated bravado or a wasted sheet of film with little room for error. 4x5 fp4+ in pyrocat hd.


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[Tri Tran]

Koko
8x10 Platinum Print
Xray material with 400mm Plasticca Oskar Zwierzina

[Mark Sawyer]

Uncorking the aperture to increase softness is either precisely calculated bravado or a wasted sheet of film with little room for error...

It's called "tap-dancing on the edge of a cliff". I'd say you're doing it quite well.

Koko
8x10 Platinum Print
Xray material with 400mm Plasticca Oskar Zwierzina

Very nice! You know, since an heir of the Pinkham & Smith firm allowed someone to make the more modern Pinkham & Smith Bi-Quality, you could track down another heir and commission a Pinkham & Smith Tri-Quality!

[Tri Tran]

It is a poor man PS Tri-Quality. You are funny Mark.

[vanourek]

Rittreck View 4x5 / convertible periscope lens 185 mm
Kodak TMax 100 / Pyrocat HD 1+1+100
Agfa Brovira BEH 112 [6] / Dektol

[stradibarrius]

TT, your portrait of KoKo is really nice!

[SergeiR]

well...since we apparently all thought about soft portraits in July.. here is one with
250mm Fujinon SF, 4x5, Chamonix 45n2, Ilford Delta


Scan-130704-0001www by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[Robert Oliver]

Hand - Robert Earl Dean
B&J Commercial 8x10 w/ 5x7 reducing back
10.5" Cooke Portrait
5x7 Ilford HP5 processed in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100

(now if I can just figure out how to keep the 5x7 sheets from jumping around inside of my Jobo print drums during processing)

[Mark Sawyer]

A wonderful series you've been working on with that sitter and the little Cooke Portrait Lens, Robert. But for some reason I have a hard time believing they weren't shot in the late fifties/early sixties...