Feb. Portraits

[cjbroadbent]

Seven, Logging in just to say how good that Dallmeyer-Bergheim portrait is.

[vinny]

Captured and drugged critter, 120mm nikkor macro, 800mm extension, 4x5 efke 25 in pmk.

[eddie]

Captured and drugged critter, 120mm nikkor macro, 800mm extension, 4x5 efke 25 in pmk.

wow! 800mm?!?! great stuff. good drugs i see....

[Brian Sims]

"Captured and drugged critter"

A friend froze some cockroaches so that he could photograph them posed in various toy trucks. A couple of days later he took them out of the freezer and within minutes, under the heat of the lights, they started to scamper away.

[vinny]

That's exactly what this guy did. I caught him, put him in a jar with a cotton ball soaked in nail polish remover (acetone). The next morning I did one shot before he started to wiggle his antennae. I didn't notice it until I got the E-6 slide back.

[unrealalex]

My turn



Lucky Bargee, BGA, Ambrotype, 18x24 cm

I used Hugo Meyer Portrait Trioplan 12"/3.5 Full opened

[luis a de santos]

Gary ,a beautiful portrait.
Could you expand a little on you did you light the artist. I note a large window on back so you must have used some front light. Strobes?

Thanks Luis

[jb7]

That's a lovely Ambrotype too-
Was that flash lit?
Looks like a short exposure...

j

[unrealalex]

Joseph, thank you
I use two fluorescent lights sources to make my ambros. Each light source has seven big energy saving lamps (input power: 105Wt, temperature: 6500K)
Exposure was about 5 seconds at F/3.5 but I underexpose a little bit - so right exposure should be ~7 seconds.
BTW, I do not use any head brace to "lock" the sitter head

[jb7]

What a hero then-
it looks instantaneous-