February 2013 portraits

[t0aster]

Awesome Tri...great to see you're working on your addiction to wet-plate Ridiculously good first plates by the way.

Well it was a busy coupla days for me testing various developer formulas and fix concentrations to get exactly what I want, so I decided to spend all that time with my cheapest model......me.
Freezing movement on wet plate ain't period correct but it's a lot of fun when your drumstick explodes and you manage to stop the head of the stick at 1/1400th of a second as it flies over your shoulder.
Damn I bet Matthew Brady or Roger Fenton would have loved the technology...

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.

[life_in_sepia]

Freezing movement on wet plate ain't period correct but it's a lot of fun when your drumstick explodes and you manage to stop the head of the stick at 1/1400th of a second as it flies over your shoulder.
Damn I bet Matthew Brady or Roger Fenton would have loved the technology...

Bravo!!

[Craig Tuffin]

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.

[szadow]

First negative made with my new camera

"Sleepy Dancing"

Model: Nicole
MUA, Stylist: Katarzyna Koperkiewicz
Graflex Speed Graphic + Kodak AeroEktar 178/2.5
Adox 25 4x5 + Caffenol-C-M

[Ramiro Elena]

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


Lupagon 102mm ƒ3 by rabato, on Flickr

[D-tach]

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

Beautiful! I like the pose and expression very much

[Ari]

First negative made with my new camera

"Sleepy Dancing"

Model: Nicole
MUA, Stylist: Katarzyna Koperkiewicz
Graflex Speed Graphic + Kodak AeroEktar 178/2.5
Adox 25 4x5 + Caffenol-C-M

Very beautiful image, Szadow.
How do you like caffenol so far?

[SergeiR]

First negative made with my new camera

"Sleepy Dancing"

Model: Nicole
MUA, Stylist: Katarzyna Koperkiewicz
Graflex Speed Graphic + Kodak AeroEktar 178/2.5
Adox 25 4x5 + Caffenol-C-M

Well done

[jkcz]

Well it was a busy coupla days for me testing various developer formulas and fix concentrations to get exactly what I want, so I decided to spend all that time with my cheapest model......me.
Freezing movement on wet plate ain't period correct but it's a lot of fun when your drumstick explodes and you manage to stop the head of the stick at 1/1400th of a second as it flies over your shoulder.
Damn I bet Matthew Brady or Roger Fenton would have loved the technology...

Unbelievable. Wonderful !!!

[szadow]

How do you like caffenol so far?

I am using it for about two years & I love it so much that it has became my #1 developer. It's cheap, non toxic, easy to brew, and give amazing results. And I always liked to make things by myself. And my favourite part is telling others that I use coffee to develop film and than watching their chin droping