February portraits 2019

**pepeguitarra** · 4-Feb-2019, 09:12

Originally Posted by DiscoShrew

@Emi, lovely portrait! I think the toning adds a lot in combination with the rendering of those old cooke lenses.

I'll start us off, comment and critique welcome.

Burke and James Press, Tri-X in HC110
Schneider 180mm MC

Bronwyn by Douglas Gibbons, on Flickr

Beautiful subject and very sharp image. Did you invert image? I can read nokiN instead of Nikon.

**DiscoShrew** · 4-Feb-2019, 09:15

Originally Posted by pepeguitarra

Beautiful subject and very sharp image. Did you invert image? I can read nokiN instead of Nikon.

Yeah I scanned the negative backwards I think (Even though it was emulsion side down), I flipped it when I was processing it, but I actually like it better this way, despite the mirrored lettering.

**Maris Rusis** · 4-Feb-2019, 17:28

Originally Posted by DiscoShrew

Yeah I scanned the negative backwards I think (Even though it was emulsion side down), I flipped it when I was processing it, but I actually like it better this way, despite the mirrored lettering.

I often make a flipped portrait to show to the sitter. Occasionally I get a reply like "You're the first photographer to get me as I really am." Why? The flipped portrait shows a familiar face just like the one the sitter sees every day in their bathroom mirror; but not how everyone else sees them.

**Chance2** · 4-Feb-2019, 18:02

Originally Posted by Maris Rusis

I often make a flipped portrait to show to the sitter. Occasionally I get a reply like "You're the first photographer to get me as I really am." Why? The flipped portrait shows a familiar face just like the one the sitter sees every day in their bathroom mirror; but not how everyone else sees them.

What a great idea.

Wonderful work on display here as well.