November 2009 Portraits

[unrealalex]

Dmitry, "Moscow Friends" Series, Wet-Plate Collodion

[stehei]

Dmitry, "Moscow Friends" Series, Wet-Plate Collodion

Hey Alexei!

Cool!!!

regards

stefan

[Pete Watkins]

Alexei,
Fantastic!
Not that I'll ever reach that standard but what lens did you use.
Best wishes,
Pete.

[jb7]

wonderful stuff-

[Jim Galli]

Alice at 99.
My mother-in-law. Amazing, upbeat, energetic woman. Legally blind, but still does own shopping, cooking, housework. Keeps better track of family birthdays than I do. When the weather is bad and her neighbours don't want to go out, she'll walk to the shops and do their shopping for them, even though they are sighted, mobile, and a decade or more younger!

This portrait speaks volumes. It is simple and beautiful. Bravo.

[Mark Sawyer]

12 inch Wollensak Velostigmat at f/4.5 on an 8x10, very soft diffusion setting.

[Jim Galli]

12 inch Wollensak Velostigmat at f/4.5 on an 8x10, very soft diffusion setting.

Absolutely gorgeous Mark! I'm thinking throw away all my Pinkhams and just use the Velostigmat! or not.

[vphill]

David Munson and Jeremy Moore

[Mark Sawyer]

Absolutely gorgeous Mark! I'm thinking throw away all my Pinkhams and just use the Velostigmat! or not.

Thanks, Jim! The low-resolution scans don't do the print justice, but I'm sure that's the case with all the work we show here. But don't throw those Pinkham & Smith's away, I'll trade you a Velostigmat for one, straight across! What a deal...

I think the Velostigmats are finally getting the respect they deserve. Not long ago they were quite cheap, but I just paid $325 for a 15.5-inch. I'd really like to find the 19.5-inch, but I've only seen them in the old catalogs. Going by the prints we've been getting over the past week or two at the school, the Velostigmats will hold their own against any of the better-known, more expensive pictorial/portrait lenses, at least once you remove the restraining screw to turn the diffusion control loose.

REMOVE YOUR RESTRAINING SCREWS, VELOSTIGMAT OWNERS! SET YOUR LENSES FREE!!!

[Jim Galli]

Thanks, Jim! The low-resolution scans don't do the print justice, but I'm sure that's the case with all the work we show here. But don't throw those Pinkham & Smith's away, I'll trade you a Velostigmat for one, straight across! What a deal...

I think the Velostigmats are finally getting the respect they deserve. Not long ago they were quite cheap, but I just paid $325 for a 15.5-inch. I'd really like to find the 19.5-inch, but I've only seen them in the old catalogs. Going by the prints we've been getting over the past week or two at the school, the Velostigmats will hold their own against any of the better-known, more expensive pictorial/portrait lenses, at least once you remove the restraining screw to turn the diffusion control loose.

REMOVE YOUR RESTRAINING SCREWS, VELOSTIGMAT OWNERS! SET YOUR LENSES FREE!!!

Plus the added benefit is that as the front element falls off and drops to the floor on thousands of Velostiggys, ours will be worth more and more.