December 2015 Portraits

[Corran]

I was out on the swamp boardwalk today and came upon a young lady with some kids. She was snapping some photos with a little DSLR of some sort. I was patiently waiting for them to be finished but she turned around and asked if I knew how to work her camera! Of course I must look like someone who knows how to operate a camera, with my big 4x5...

Anyway, I helped her with her problem and showed her how to use exposure compensation. Afterwards I asked if I she would like me to take a couple of photos of her and the kids, and I would email her the images. I was trying to burn some film anyway and I don't often have the opportunity to take portraits, so I was happy to oblige. Here is one of them:

Chamonix 45n1, Voigtlander 21cm f/4.5 APO Lanthar @ f/11, T-Max 100, FX-39:

[alex from holland]

Mario
11 x11" tintype.
16"Hermagis petzval at 4.5

[BrianShaw]

The story is as nice as the photo, Bryan. What a good guy you are!

[Corran]

Thanks Brian, I try . Plus the Lanthar just begs to be used for portraits.

Here is the other sheet, fresh off the scanner. Portra 160VC this time:

[Jim Jones]

Aapov77, That's a fine start. It is non-traditional in a way that refreshes our ideas about portraiture.

[nede]

"White Rabbit"
13x18cm ferrotype

[DrTang]

5x7 / 240 heliar @f5.6

[Peter Lewin]

DrTang: yes, youth and beauty are fleeting. Reminds me of Dutch paintings with the same symbolism.

Corran: those are great family portraits, especially the first, the B&W. The mom should hang those on the wall.

[DrTang]

I suppose...I just had the skull sitting around and she picked it up

I been wanting to do something like those 20's and 30's actor portraits where they are holding 'poor Yorrick's' skull all dramatic like- - you may have seen one like that

[D-tach]

Creamy Dr Tang! Nice light!



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