October 2016 portrait

[nede]

here is a small 4x5 wet plate collodion portrait of my friend Boris, owner at l'Atelier de Palerme. We both are wetplate photographers, today we added a 2000w Arrilite to the natural light to see what it was worth...
blog page: http://atelier-de-palerme.blogspot.fr/

[Miguel Curbelo]

5x7 alumitype.

[Roger Thoms]

Wonderful portrait!!!

[jp]

A senior portrait. Shot a few with the Speed Graphic and Aero Ektar after I put my DSLR away.
4x5 FP4+ film in pyrocat hdc.

img232 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[Jim Jones]

Lovely girl, captured very well. Usually the Aero-Ektar butchers the background in an unpleasant way. Here it works.

[jp]

Lovely girl, captured very well. Usually the Aero-Ektar butchers the background in an unpleasant way. Here it works.

Thank you ! As with any lens, the background distance/complexity/detail/busyness is important to consider. A bad background can bite you with a soft focus or petzval just as easily. Practice almost makes perfect.

[Miguel Curbelo]

Thank you Roger.

[Tin Can]

Yes, this is from 2 weeks ago, but I developed this neg tonight. Delta 100, 8X10 Imagon 360, holes open 7.7, Packard shutter. Scanned in color Straight out the scanner. No PS. This is perhaps the best of the 10 negs shot. 18 min gas burst Rodinol 1/100.

I will concentrate on enlarging it soon.

Please comment freely. I forgot to add this was inspired by Josephine Baker.

Erin Delta 100 360mm Imagom 7.7 #3 glass by moe.randy, on Flickr

[bloodhoundbob]

Yes, this is from 2 weeks ago, but I developed this neg tonight. Delta 100, 8X10 Imagon 360, holes open 7.7, Packard shutter. Scanned in color Straight out the scanner. No PS. This is perhaps the best of the 10 negs shot. 18 min gas burst Rodinol 1/100.

I will concentrate on enlarging it soon.

Please comment freely. I forgot to add this was inspired by Josephine Baker.

Erin Delta 100 360mm Imagom 7.7 #3 glass by moe.randy, on Flickr

Randy: You have done well, sir. Of course I may be biased, as Josephine Baker was my great aunt by virtue of her marriage to Jo Bouillon. One can never go wrong using Josephine as your inspiration IMO.

Bob

[jp]

daughter with lupine from sometime this past summer. Just got around to developing/scanning.
8x10 tmy2 400 film in pyrocat hdc. B&J 8x10 camera with B&L Sigmar lens + Speed Graphic shutter.

img235 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr