July Portraits

[JohnEsco]

Dia - a portrait
Wista 45N / Fujinon 210mm / Foma 200 EI100 / dev Rodinal 1+50 for 8 mins

[ericantonio]

After not shooting LF for a long time, I am slowly getting back into it. Take with a wista 45d, Caltar 210/5.6 and Berger 400. I need to up my washing technique. Also thinking of a way to easily scan with a DSLR, this is a single image with the negative directly on top of the light box.

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lovely.

I just tried setting up a DSLR scanning thing with some 35mm. I watched a bunch of videos. But I'm having a hard time with the color balance with B&W and "inverting" the image. I'm using GIMP and/or Darktable and it's not as easy to invert. I know...get Lightroom, 1 click. But I still have my trusty V700 for scanning for now. I read somewhere that you need to stitch 2 images for 4x5 and larger? Or is it 8x10 and larger?

[Rain Dance]

lovely.

I just tried setting up a DSLR scanning thing with some 35mm. I watched a bunch of videos. But I'm having a hard time with the color balance with B&W and "inverting" the image. I'm using GIMP and/or Darktable and it's not as easy to invert. I know...get Lightroom, 1 click. But I still have my trusty V700 for scanning for now. I read somewhere that you need to stitch 2 images for 4x5 and larger? Or is it 8x10 and larger?

Yes lightroom is what I use and it is pretty easy, plus if you do color you can use negative lab pro and it is even easier then. Can you use your DSLR raw shots and open them on epson scan? I have vuescan and that is what I used to do, but the LR was faster. You can definitely stitch together medium format to large format if you need that kind of resolution, for me just one picture is enough.

[ericantonio]

Yes lightroom is what I use and it is pretty easy

I'm just not ready to pay for lightroom!!! Hahah, I'm still using the standalone version. Very old. But it works. I need to boot up an virtual Win10 machine for it.

[Mark Sawyer]

Regarding Dia, a lovely portrait, John.

[drewf64]

Beautifully done, John ...
Lighting
Expression
Composition
Focus

Dia - a portrait
Wista 45N / Fujinon 210mm / Foma 200 EI100 / dev Rodinal 1+50 for 8 mins

[ericantonio]

Dia - a portrait
Wista 45N / Fujinon 210mm / Foma 200 EI100 / dev Rodinal 1+50 for 8 mins

Love everything about this!

[JohnEsco]

Thank you, Mark.

[JohnEsco]

much appreciated Drew

[tuco]

I finally got this lens fixed that came with my Graphic and I'm trying it out for the first time.


Steller's Jay by tuco, on Flickr

Crown Graphic, Xenar 135/4.7, FP4+, D-23