June portraits

[Matus Kalisky]

As it seems common to start a portrait thread nearly every month, I will try to start one for June.

The photo below was taken on 06/09/2008 by the groom (me - god bless my lovely wife for her patience). Well - I composed and kindly ask our photographer (great guy - we had lot of fun during the session) to trip the shutter. I took 4 images - 2 color and 2 BW and this one turned to be the best.

For some reason it took me long to get to work on it - still to be printed.

Should you praise this photo enough I will also post a crop such that you can see that beautiful bride

[Tachi 4x5, tmax 400, Fujinon CM-W 125/5.6 @ f/8 (sometimes I remember things ...). In the background you see a wall from the castle in Zvolen (my hometown)]

(click on for larger version)

[Peter Galea]

Excellent.

[Paul Metcalf]

quite the metaphor with those barred windows, eh?

[Matus Kalisky]

quite the metaphor with those barred windows, eh?

I always thought that barring was for protection against THE outside, only now I see they work both ways

[Vladik]

OK, another wedding pictures. As a begginer in LF it´s notnig special, just a try in fact.





5x7 Symmar 180/5,6

[Matus Kalisky]

Vladik - that is very nice work. I do not see any "beginners work" in there.

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As promised here is a crop from the wedding photo:

[FlashThat]

OK, another wedding pictures. As a begginer in LF it´s notnig special, just a try in fact.

5x7 Symmar 180/5,6

I'm intrigued by the location of this wedding.

[Donald Miller]

One of my daughter in law

[vinny]

One of my daughter in law

Don, what are the specs on that image? Also, interesting that you had her look nowhere near the lens.

[papageno]

This was taken with Heliar 210mm. Aperture was set around 8, as far as I remember. The slight glow in highlights was produced by Tiffen SFX filter, not by Heliar itself.
In fact, I can not detect any significant difference between this Heliar (not Universal, but newer with coated glass) and any modern lens in this focal range.

I had a light setup of two Sunpaks 544, umbrella and a reflector at that time. But the results, as I found after development and scanning, were greatly disappointing – the light was just horrible. I am a damn bloody AMATEUR after all.
Fortunately, during posing the subject, I noticed that the light from a single recessed can on a basement ceiling was not that bad at all and decided to give it a try. And here’s the result.