January 2020 Portraits

[Deardorffuser]

Yes. Very big.

[Jose Esteve]

Showgirl

Wista 45 SP, Kodak T-Max 400 developed in Ilford DD-X

@joseestevephoto

[scheinfluger_77]

Donchev 20x24"
Schneider Art XXL 770 f22
Ilford FP4 125 20x24"

copy negative on digital camera

Be still my heart... oh, the lens (or girl) is nice too. Interesting how the lens renders the image SHARP without being harsh.

[ericantonio]

Yes. Very big.

JEEBUS!!!!

I once had to move a Saltzman tripod from Soho to Chelsea area in Manhattan back in the late 80's. It took like 4 or 5 of us to move that darn thing. And these guys were big guys. I can't imagine what that thing weighs.

I love watching behind the scenes for nature documentaries. Those guys carry heavy equipment through artic, deserts, ant infested tropics makes us LF shooters a bunch of whiny ass bit*** hhahhaha.

All in fun right.

Thanks for a peek of your setup. Love it!

[EH21]

Donchev 20x24"
Schneider Art XXL 770 f22
Ilford FP4 125 20x24"

copy negative on digital camera

So cool! How are you developing the films?

[Deardorffuser]

In developing tray

[ericantonio]

For the past ummm, maybe 5 years or so, I've been using PMK for developing mainly cause I wanted to get used to it and in the hopes of doing ALT printing. And I got used to the ease of mixing it. Lately, I wanted to have less tray time and easier/cleaner developers so I've been going back to D76/1:1 on my smaller format, and HC110/Dil.B for my Large Format. This was just a "test" scan to see what it looks like. All I did was lower the Base Curve a little bit and done. Amazing how much tonality and less manipulation one needs to do with big negs. I just did a bunch with my Olympus XA and boy, it takes a lot of tweeking to get a good contrasty image on little negs.


Kodak MasterView, 300mm Ektar, Arista EDU 400, HC110/Dil.B 6 min. 1/15@F11

First portrait of the year

[notorius]

ICA Ideal 9x12 Carl Zeiss Tessar 13,5cm 4.5; cropped
Fomapan 400 Rodinal 1+50


There is some uneven development issue. One of my first attempts to develop sheetfilm in Paterson Super System tank, needs little bit tweaking obviously.
Anyway I am surprised how sharp that old Tessar is. Stopped to F8.

[orgraph]

2020-01-12 Denishi, Ukraine 8х10 by Yuriy Sanin, on Flickr
Wista 8x10, Fujinon 420 L 420/8@22, Shanghai 100 in HC 1+31

[Tin Can]

Ah, an old friend, excellent!

I would know her anywhere.