August 2012 Portraits

[sully75]

Walden Pond by Paul McEvoy, on Flickr

[jcoldslabs]

Paul,

I'm enjoying these recent portraits you've posted. Straightforward, simple, direct. Thumbs up!

Jonathan

[Frank Petronio]

Yeah Paul! Great stuff lately, looks like you got things working well ~ Same for you Ben ;-p

[sully75]

Thanks guys. Wish it were easier, sometimes feels like pulling teeth. But when I get a good one, I'm happy. Suffering artist and all that.

[ecoleica]

I have been experimenting with a more formal portraiture style. I have only just started playing around with lighting a bit more. Shot on a Horseman LE with 210mm lens. Film was fujifilm Acros developed in Rodinal. Scanned via a epson V700.

[sully75]

I have been experimenting with a more formal portraiture style. I have only just started playing around with lighting a bit more. Shot on a Horseman LE with 210mm lens. Film was fujifilm Acros developed in Rodinal. Scanned via a epson V700.

That's good light dude. Good northern european art light. My only thought would be it would be nice to have a small (very small) amount of kicker behind her to separate her hair from the black background.

Not really a critique but I'll apologize anyway. Very nice.

[SergeiR]

8x10, Gundlach Radar 8x10, Arista EDU

testing with upcoming model (as in human, not as in camera/film/lens )


Weslee by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr


Weslee by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[ecoleica]

That's good light dude. Good northern european art light. My only thought would be it would be nice to have a small (very small) amount of kicker behind her to separate her hair from the black background.

Not really a critique but I'll apologize anyway. Very nice.

No probs...that's the first thing I said when I was setting up the shot. I only had one lit with me so I had to make do! Thanks for the critique tho!

[dperez]

5X7 ambrotype

Scott, this is a beautiful picture. I love the subtleties of light and the texture of the windows. I am inspired to learn wetplate photography.

-Daniel

[sully75]

No probs...that's the first thing I said when I was setting up the shot. I only had one lit with me so I had to make do! Thanks for the critique tho!

You could bounce light with a piece of foamcore behind her to get that little bit of seperation and still only use one light. If you don't mind me saying, in addition, I think the shot might have been a tiny bit better if you had short lit her-i.e. put the light on the left side of her face so that the closer side is in shadow.

Still I like the light a lot. What was it? Softbox? It's nice and soft but not wishy washy.