July 2012 Portraits

[Jay DeFehr]

I like it, Daniel!

[Frank Petronio]

Photographers are the difficult subjects but I bet he was pleased.

[vitality]

Sinar Alpina, Derogy petzval.
Yesterday new lens arrived, mounted it on Sinar board and out for testing.

[zenny]

Sinar Alpina, Derogy petzval.
Yesterday new lens arrived, mounted it on Sinar board and out for testing.

What a beautiful shot, the first one in particular! :-)

[Pete Watkins]

Vitality,
Fantastic pics.
Pete.

[slantface]

some wet plate collodion

8x8" black glass ambrotypes
Century Studio 8x10
Perken Son and Rayment No. 3B


ambrotype #19 - sean by slantface, on Flickr


ambrotype #17 - sean by slantface, on Flickr


ambrotype #18 - ryan by slantface, on Flickr

[Hugo Zhang]

Daniel,

Nice lighting! A very good image.

[Joe Forks]

Not too much of the other stuff please!
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A thread where we can share our out-of-focus alternative-process headshots made with large format cameras during July 2012.

And maybe some other stuff too!

Attachment 76628

[goamules]

I finally got to shoot some plates, after a month of busy work and vacation. 5x6 at end of day outdoor lighting, R. Morrison petzval.

[Mark Sawyer]

Nicely done, Garrett! We were working in my back yard, and I made a 6x8 plate:



The plates were coming out well despite the heat, though I underexposed my first plate badly. About 20 seconds with an unknown Petzval, maybe B&L, maybe not...