It was the late 1980's when there was a market for high quality wedding images and similar. Back during those days, the vast majority of folks doing wedding pictures were Hasselblad or similar medium format centric. Majority of these images were done with color negative film. Kodak VPS was THE film for this kind of work back then.. Taking a different image making road could be a good thing. Decided to trying applying the 4x5 Sinar F to a few wedding pictures. Being currently semi-disabled due to a not very pleasant incident, decided to have a peek into the piles and piles of film boxes on the shelf. Happened upon these images that were long forgotten.
Decided to share and try remembering what was involved with making them.
Bride was willing and ok with doing this pose. Based on distant memory, it took about an hour to set up with the help of an assistant.
Once the camera position was settled, portrait composition ok on the GG, had the assistant fix up the bride's gown and train to get
the folds to sit as recorded on film. The light was changing, so there was limited to to achieve this. Some time passed, the image
looked good on the GG. Had the bride drop her arms holding to bouquet of flowers and relax her arms, "look at the front edge of your gown's
train.. One click of the 8-1/2" Kodak Commercial Ektar's Ilex shutter, done. There is only one negative image of this portrait on FP4 film.
Added the groom. Given the camera position was mostly set, it was much easier to change pose adding the groom. Similar drill for the assistant. It just took less time.
Generic studio portrait of the bride.
Church scene with a 75mm Grandagon.
Bernice
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