Portraits from 2021

[Molli]

Very suave! A beautifully executed photographed and very sharp sartorial style!

[Ben Calwell]

A group portrait. A remake of one taken a couple decades earlier, but with the kids' mates added.

5x7, TMax400 shot at 100 accidentally -- but the light was dropping fast and it all worked out as I counted out one-ansel-adams, two-ansel-adams....
Neg photographed digitally on light table and inverted -- looks fairly close to what the platinum print will look like, but I think I can do much better.

Excellent! I think I’ll start using the “one Ansel Adams, two Ansel Adams….”

[Deardorffuser]

8x10
foma 100
symmar s 360
pyro350

[otto.f]

Another stunner!

[Tin Can]

Toplecca di Sopra - Pontremoli (MS) - Italy
Christine in the woods near my house.
Picture taken few days before our Large Format Photography annual meeting. Developed one year after the exposure. 31 July 2020

- Camera: Linhof Super Technika 5x7 V
- Lens: CARL ZEISS JENA Tessar 250 1:4.5
- Film: FOMAPAN - 100 ASA - size 13x18"
- Exposure:
- Developer: KODAK HC-110 - Dilution H (1+62) - 9 minutes at 20° C
- Stop: ILFORD ILFO STOP
- Fixer: ILFORD HYPAM FIXER
- Lightmeter: Gossen Lunasix 3 reading the incident light
- Lighting: Ambient light only

- Scanner: EPSON V700 and EPSON Scan 3.81
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6

[FrancisR]

Woodyman 4x5, Fujinon 150mm, Fomapan 200

[Vaughn]

Excellent! I think I’ll start using the “one Ansel Adams, two Ansel Adams….”

Quite fun counting it out loud on top of Sentinel Dome, although surprising everyone with it on the first image of the evening caused a bit of laughter on a longish exposure! For the last sheet of the evening, I set the camera up, and my son and I posed and had someone working the cable release for me. The exposure at f22 for 4 ansel-adams. For the exposure, the whole crowd* on top of the dome counted out loud, "One ansel-adams...two ansel-adams..." at the rate of about 2.5 seconds per ansel-adams. The negative is a little dense...but I can work with it.

* Okay, it just seemed like it was 'everyone' ... certainly the dozen or so in our group (the more fit folks of our family reunion).

[Deardorffuser]

Deardorff 8x10,
Caltar 305/6.3mm (f11),
Foma 200@160,
HC110 (B)

[Deardorffuser]

Deardorff 8x10
Caltar 305\6.3
Foma 200@160
HC110

[Andrzej]

Wet collodion on 10x10in clear glass.
Dallmeyer 3a