December 2014 Portraits

[SergeiR]

Totally agree - good job, Ben. Love composition and use of front elements blur

[jp]

Regular visitors to my shop; they like to hang around and watch, and I like their company.

Still trying to get that 1930-studio look thing going.....
335mm Reinhold Wollaston @ f8 on 8x10 xray film.

I'd say you're learning to use that lens proficiently! Nice and smooth

[benrains]

I'm not normally a fan of high key, but this is exceptional! All natural light or did you have a big box off camera right as well?

Bravo!

The price of Vestas just went up.
Beautiful shot, Ben; wonderful light.

Totally agree - good job, Ben. Love composition and use of front elements blur

Thanks! It's all natural light with the curtain covered picture window in the background as the sole source of light (with some reflection off the interior walls acting as a fill.) This was a "hail Mary" shot, the last of our sitting done in quickly fading daylight. For this the lens is wide-open and the exposure was around 2 secs. The blur in the foreground is due to extreme lens flaring from pointing the old uncoated lens into the light source. I burned it in a bit to tame it. The Vestas are great lenses which are often ignored because they're not exotic. (Although they do have some great tricks up their sleeves if you're in the know.) I really love boring old uncoated Tessars too.

[richardman]

Jonnalyhn as Khirathae Zauviir, of House Do'Urden from AD&D. Part of the https://www.facebook.com/Transformat...splayPortraits project




and this is her in more regular clothing. Lets just say she is a costumer through and through

[towolf]

My father in serendipitous sunlight.


Symmar-S 300, Kodak E100G 4x5.

My father taught me virtually everything I know about photography and the Dunkelkammer. He’s so analog through and through (he never used a computer) he calls digital stuff "electrical photography". When I bought my first 4x5 Linhof for a ridiculously low sum he was so enticed by it that I left it with him and he’s using it since. I wanted to give him a box of Ektachrome and a Tetenal E6 kit for his 81st birthday, but he dismissed using it ("I did color in the past, it’s too finicky").

So we just took this one sheet on the occasion.

[speedfreak]

Fantastic!

My father in serendipitous sunlight.


Symmar-S 300, Kodak E100G 4x5.

My father taught me virtually everything I know about photography and the Dunkelkammer. He’s so analog through and through (he never used a computer) he calls digital stuff "electrical photography". When I bought my first 4x5 Linhof for a ridiculously low sum he was so enticed by it that I left it with him and he’s using it since. I wanted to give him a box of Ektachrome and a Tetenal E6 kit for his 81st birthday, but he dismissed using it ("I did color in the past, it’s too finicky").

So we just took this one sheet on the occasion.

[mathieu Bauwens]

Benrains, that's a great picture.

[jesse]

8x10, Voigtlander Protar 310mm f7.7

[bracan]

Lana
Polaroid 803 exposed on 400 iso, Expired 2009. Taken with Sinar P 8x10 and Voigtlander Heliar 30cm wide open.

[martin pl.]

my first shot with LF (Sinar F1, APO Symmar 180, FP4, DD-X 1:9)