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Thoogsby
Nov 18, 2006

Very strong. Everyone likes me.
Want that lbm hat

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Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer
My company wanted me to do some portraits of the staff so I persuaded them to pony up for dev costs for medium format black and white. These are from the test roll.


000012.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


000011.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

I dig this lighting.


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


The old vibes by Jason Martin, on Flickr

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Thanks!


iSheep fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Feb 7, 2017

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Summer Fridays by Jason Martin, on Flickr

LampkinsMateSteve
Jan 1, 2005

I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?
Nice.

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich

iSheep fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Aug 22, 2016

RCK-101
Feb 19, 2008

If a recruiter asks you to become a nuclear sailor.. you say no

The second one looks very modern telejournalist, like I was reading the New York Times.

XTimmy
Nov 28, 2007
I am Jacks self hatred

Exposure on the dress is drawing attention away from the face, try burning the dress a little and dodging the face a little. Top of her head is also getting lost a bit, trying bringing the mids up using a highlights brush in LR or a curves mask in PS. Otherwise really nice skin tones/colour in general Background is nice too.

Oh and if this is for professional work maybe scrub the bra in the bottom right.

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Honestly those were things I noticed and just decided to lazy up on them. But since its fairly noticeable I'll make some fixes. Thanks!

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr

McMadCow
Jan 19, 2005

With our rifles and grenades and some help from God.
Another from my shoot a couple weeks back.

Alexis by Jason, on Flickr

Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer
I did a shoot with a local alt-model in my apartment. Unfortunately the light sucked - my nice strobes are in storage, so I only had ambient light from my chandelier and a speedlight firing through a softbox. I'm not at all happy with the results but I got a few keepers. The nicest ones came from my medium format camera, which surprised me as I only had slow film available and the max sync speed is 1/30 so the flash was more-or-less useless.

Medium Format (on Portra 160)

untitled-48.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

On Ilford 400

untitled-26.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


untitled-18.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Digital

untitled-54.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


untitled-103.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


untitled-39.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Morkfang
Dec 9, 2009

I'm awesome.
:smug:

Helen Highwater posted:

I did a shoot with a local alt-model in my apartment. Unfortunately the light sucked - my nice strobes are in storage, so I only had ambient light from my chandelier and a speedlight firing through a softbox. I'm not at all happy with the results but I got a few keepers. The nicest ones came from my medium format camera, which surprised me as I only had slow film available and the max sync speed is 1/30 so the flash was more-or-less useless.

Medium Format (on Portra 160)

untitled-48.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Looks a bit like as if she's missing her left arm, especially since it's almost a front-on angle. If she were turned to her left it would be less noticeable because the brain would expect the arm to be hidden or less visible.

VelociBacon
Dec 8, 2009

Why did you do a shoot with your gear in storage? Not being lovely just curious.

Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer

VelociBacon posted:

Why did you do a shoot with your gear in storage? Not being lovely just curious.

The opportunity came up. She is a local hobby model who is happy to do TFP work so it didn't cost anything except an few hours of my evening. I underestimated the amount of ambient light in my apartment too. My last apartment had a ridiculous amount of light available and it was easily possible to do properly lit shoots with just ambient light and some off-axis fills. This one is light enough but it's far less diffuse than in my last place - the main light in my living room is a single 25 bulb chandelier whereas in my old place there were something like 70 recessed bulbs spread across the living room ceiling. I don't know when I'm going to get my stuff back and I wanted to give it a go. I'll probably just buy some cheap lamps and modifiers to tide me over.

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Illustrated hands by Jason Martin, on Flickr

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

First time to critique, but I think this would have been a stronger pic if the hand was in focus too (as opposed to just the ring), the markings interest me too.

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Schneider Heim posted:

First time to critique, but I think this would have been a stronger pic if the hand was in focus too (as opposed to just the ring), the markings interest me too.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I debated that one, trying to decide to focus narrow or wide. I like dthe atmosphere that came out of this one. Guess I'm in the bbbbooookkkeeeehhh phase recently. For example in this one, in retrospect, I was I had gotten both eyes in focus:

Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr

Jimlad
Jan 8, 2005

tau
Mar 20, 2003

Sigillum Universitatis Kansiensis
Does it count if it's a portrait of a statue person?



Untitled by Ryan Sees What, on Flickr

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

tau posted:

Does it count if it's a portrait of a statue person?



We're gonna let this one slide but only because nothing matters and we all die alone

somnambulist
Mar 27, 2006

quack quack



Michaele by David Franco, on Flickr

Michaele by David Franco, on Flickr

k-zed
Dec 1, 2008

Fallen Rib
I like these rather a lot.

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib
Me too. :10bux: says anthropologist.

8th-snype
Aug 28, 2005

My office is in the front room of a run-down 12 megapixel sensor but the rent suits me and the landlord doesn't ask many questions.

Dorkroom Short Fiction Champion 2012


Young Orc

feigning interest posted:

We're gonna let this one slide but only because nothing matters and we all die alone

:same:

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr

Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer
Medium format portraits of my colleagues.


Work portraits-11 by Iain Compton, on Flickr


Work portraits-12 by Iain Compton, on Flickr


Work portraits-21 by Iain Compton, on Flickr

McMadCow
Jan 19, 2005

With our rifles and grenades and some help from God.
Another portrait from the big camera. Paper negative, I think this was a ~20 second exposure.


Portrait of M by Jason, on Flickr

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib
People in their places. Or, a person in her place.


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr

Erostratus
Jun 18, 2011

by R. Guyovich
I bought a $25 (badass) lamp just as an excuse to photograph this guy.

Lamp Crafters Owner by Kyle Sonnenberg, on Flickr

voodoorootbeer
Nov 8, 2004

We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later we push up flowers.

Erostratus posted:

I bought a $25 (badass) lamp just as an excuse to photograph this guy.

Lamp Crafters Owner by Kyle Sonnenberg, on Flickr

You got a hell of a deal.

TheAngryDrunk
Jan 31, 2003

"I don't know why I know that; I took four years of Spanish."

Paige
by Steve V, on Flickr

Thoren
May 28, 2008
What's the typical camera height for doing a waist to head sort of portrait?

VelociBacon
Dec 8, 2009

Thoren posted:

What's the typical camera height for doing a waist to head sort of portrait?

Probably around nipple line.

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich

TheAngryDrunk
Jan 31, 2003

"I don't know why I know that; I took four years of Spanish."

Katharine
by Steve V, on Flickr

thetzar
Apr 22, 2001
Fallen Rib

Very cool.


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr


Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr

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bellows lugosi
Aug 9, 2003

Really cool stuff shoot more

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