April 2009 Portraits

[C. D. Keth]

was going to develop and post my photos of metal man Ringo, he's covered. But if a couple piercings and a tattoo upset people I think a man with about 30 in his face, shoulders and arms covered in old school Brit tattoos and genitalia that jingles would probably cause heart attacks.

Post 'em mate! Lets give this month's portrait thread a bit of variety, something besides swirlies and people staring into the lens.

[stehei]

graflex with unnamed dallmeyer lens

[Michael_4514]

What really attracts me to the two photos that Frank originally posted are the facial expressions of the model. There's a lot there. I don't really have words for her expressions, but they seem very detached from the fact that she's half nude. You may be paying attention to that, but she is not. I can almost hear her saying "if you're looking at my breasts, or the tattoo, or the piercings, you're missing the point." And her expression makes me really want to know what the point is.

As for the background, I'm sure it's exactly what Frank had in mind. You'll notice how the edge of the wall lines up with the model's torso. Whether it works for your or not, and I'm not 100 percent sold on it, it is very carefully arranged. Sometimes these visual ideas work much better "live."

[VictoriaPerelet]

Frank, those are very nice pics and style that you had for quite awhile. Not sure why pple look for some high matters ... ruler is fun.

Here are few pics from two days ago. Not really applying for high art or anything. Model brought latex, I bough food wrap in in grocery store, here's combination:

C41 Kodak Portra 400NC standard development:

Sinar F2, Nikkor 65mm, F22

Type 55 neg:

Sinar F2, Nikkor 65mm, F8

Kodak TMAX 400-2 (8 mins in HC110 dil 8)


F2, Schneider SA 90mm XL, F22

[dlin]

Paper negative using an 8x10 camera and 15" lens wide open (f 4)

[Ash]

....still haven't developed my photos of Ringo!

[Armin Seeholzer]

Victoria really hot pics of hot woman's and shoes!

Cheers Armin

[MIke Sherck]

Daniel, that's amazing from a paper negative! Is this from a scan (inverted, presumably,) or a scan from a print? And if from a print, did you wax the paper negative or otherwise treat it to get such a film-like quality? Curious minds want to know!

Thanks,

Mike

[dlin]

Thanks, Mike.

No treatment of the paper negative. The effect is entirely the result of the diffusion/soft focus characteristics of lens. I did use a yellow filter in front of the lens to reduce contrast on the paper negative (Ilford MGIV RC).

All the best,
Daniel

[Dave Aharonian]

I've begun to dig into my stash of Polaroid 665 film. Taken with a small Darlot Petzval.