Post your homage to another photographer (any format)

[Merg Ross]

Hi Gregg, nice homage to Paul. His 90th birthday was a few days ago.

Let me volunteer a thought, if you don't mind. Paul might have seen what you did. I think he would have printed the surrounding area of the white rock down a bit more and let the pearl glow. But then it wouldn't be your interpretation. Paul was a master silver printer. Last I heard he was still, "in the traditional darkroom with silver and chemistry."

Thanks for posting. Location?

Best,
Merg

[nolindan]

[John Layton]

Perfect! (jar #30?)

[Bernice Loui]

Guess who..


The set up..




Key light, 2600 watt/second into the snoot with grid, "fill" light via round soft box feathered, 1400 watt/second.
Incident flashmeter reads f64.4 at the subject, exposure aperture F32 on the 9 1/2" Goerz APO artar, 1.5 f-stop bellows factor,
13x18cm Agfa APX100 (now about ISO 50 & Rodinal),
Compendium lens shade with curtain is mandatory due to the proximity of the lighting, Sinar P2 well "flexed"..

December indoors,
Bernice

[Ulophot]

Perfect! (jar #30?)

+1

[Califmike33]

++2 Bernice

[Martin Aislabie]

Guess who..


The set up..




Key light, 2600 watt/second into the snoot with grid, "fill" light via round soft box feathered, 1400 watt/second.
Incident flashmeter reads f64.4 at the subject, exposure aperture F32 on the 9 1/2" Goerz APO artar, 1.5 f-stop bellows factor,
13x18cm Agfa APX100 (now about ISO 50 & Rodinal),
Compendium lens shade with curtain is mandatory due to the proximity of the lighting, Sinar P2 well "flexed"..

December indoors,
Bernice

Bernice - that is a serious amount of lighting power for the shot.

And, there was me thinking 2000Ws was a lot for a still life - it just shows you what we do and don't know.

Martin

[Bernice Loui]

All relative, what is perceived as "serious amount of lighting power" was vastly common back in the days of studio centric sheet film image making.
Majority of folks working with sheet film in studio doing product images which are much like still-life had several 4000watt/second or 3000watt/second power packs with several flash heads and a Boat Load of light modifiers and a pile of grip and lighting related Do-Dads..

Alterative was to "multi-pop" which was also very, very common. That Minolta flash meter IV has a "multi" setting to meter the effective exposure f-stop after multi-pops from the strobe/flash. This was a common flash meter feature back in the day. Single was preferred, except single was not always an option.

Once the subject and camera was set, most of the time spent was on lighting followed by pull-A-roids before any film was exposed.

The two Elinchrom 3000AS power packs used for this setup..


Kitty did a pose.



Bernice

Bernice - that is a serious amount of lighting power for the shot.

And, there was me thinking 2000Ws was a lot for a still life - it just shows you what we do and don't know.

Martin

[jnantz]

AW...(7x11negatves)

[LabRat]

All relative, what is perceived as "serious amount of lighting power" was vastly common back in the days of studio centric sheet film image making.
Majority of folks working with sheet film in studio doing product images which are much like still-life had several 4000watt/second or 3000watt/second power packs with several flash heads and a Boat Load of light modifiers and a pile of grip and lighting related Do-Dads..

Alterative was to "multi-pop" which was also very, very common. That Minolta flash meter IV has a "multi" setting to meter the effective exposure f-stop after multi-pops from the strobe/flash. This was a common flash meter feature back in the day. Single was preferred, except single was not always an option.

Once the subject and camera was set, most of the time spent was on lighting followed by pull-A-roids before any film was exposed.

The two Elinchrom 3000AS power packs used for this setup..


Kitty did a pose.



Bernice

Hope you got "Krissy" off the set before you popped the strobes, or that's one "scaredy kat" with a perm!!!

Great set-up/result... Keep it up!!!

Steve K