February 2013 portraits

[Craig Tuffin]

Simply amazing, Craig. Everything here works for me; the tonality, lighting, posture of the subject, framing. To hell with keeping up "period correct" wet-plate work, there are plenty of people satisfied with keeping that work up. It's refreshing to see that someone has taken the initiative and conquered the inherently slow speed of wet-plate. Especially since I'm currently looking to get into tintypes myself and I've been wondering how to escape the all too well known tropes of wet-plate.

Well done, Sir, well done.

Why thank YOU sir ...and thank you jkcz

[leighmarrin]

Attachment 89102It's the hat. Saw this girl at a church service and loved her style, so I asked her to come to the studio and bring her hat for a portrait. She agreed and here we are. Shot on my Burk & James 5X7 with an old unknown lens from 1870 wide open at f8 and a makeshift packard shutter with around 1 or 2 second exposure. Shot on HP5 and developed in WD2D+ for 10 min.

I like this very much. Relaxed, unaffected subject and simple lighting.

[Mirek Kania]

Sinar F2 + Rodenstock 210/5.6
4x5 Efke 100 + Caffenol-C-H
1/30sec f11 ISO100

Maciek, this pic looks much better here then when you showed it on FB.
It is very good.

[hoffy]

Cheers Hoffy, Tri and Ed...very much appreciated.

Hoffy...specs were:

2000ws key with large reflector bounce and 1000ws low fill with a small reflector on the opposite side to light the drum etc. The drum is a deep dark red (not a good colour for wet plate). Background is the garage door because I'm following Ed's example of using parts of the house as effective backgrounds and wanted the horizontal lines to break it up a bit. It's lit by 2 x 1500ws strobes. I wanted a bit more fill but ran out of light after 6000ws (I need some profoto 4800 packs). I was balancing with ambient light but picked up too much movement from the drumming arm so I waited a couple of hours until the light dropped.

Thanks for spilling the beans - I have always been curious about how much light you would need to shoot these processes in a Studio. Hmmm, I think my 300WS elcheapo ebay lights wouldn't cut the mustard!

[jb7]

Graflex Speed Graphic Pacemaker with my new Lupagon 102mm f3.


Lupagon 102mm ƒ3 by rabato, on Flickr

This one needs to be on more than one page-

And Maciek's one too-

[bracan]

This one needs to be on more than one page-

And Maciek's one too-

Love it!!!

[Ramiro Elena]

Thanks! My girl hates it (as usual). This lens (magnifying glass) is better suited for landscapes I think... too wide. But thanks, thanks!

[RPippin]

Thank you Leigh, just window lighting and a small daylight ballance spot I bought for a few bucks.

[Randy]

Our local camera club meet on the 11th. We decided to do a group shot. I am the tall fellow, back row, far right.



Technical Details
Three exposures were made:
#1 - I forgot to remove the dark slide, so we called it "practice"
#2 - Image above, with flash bounced off the wall/ceiling behind the camera
#3 - Fell way out of focus and is pretty much worthless

Photographer: a couple of unknown child volunteers at the library tripped the shutter for us, then left the room giggling

Camera: 1916 Folmer & Schwing 8X10

Lens: 240mm Caltar II-N

Light: Sunpak 120J

Film: 8X10 X-Ray blue sensitive rated @ ISO 100, 1/30th sec, f/5.6

Development: Kodak HC-110 "H" (1:63) in trays, 69/f for 8 minutes

[David R Munson]

My grandmother, in her 90s and can still tell you about things that happened when she was eight years old (with amazing clarity to boot).


Untitled by David R Munson, on Flickr

Chamonix 4x5, 210mm Symmar•EX, HP5, HC-110. I believe the exposure was about 1/4 at f/8.