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Marc
Is that Brontë country?
See that pub on the right, serves a nice pint of Black Sheep Ale...
All very British scene with the postbox, cobbles etc..
Nice tones also.
 
Photo_Smith said:
Marc
Is that Brontë country?
See that pub on the right, serves a nice pint of Black Sheep Ale...
All very British scene with the postbox, cobbles etc..
Nice tones also.
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Yes. This was shot in Haworth last summer.
I love Black Sheep Ale too ;)
 
Peter_Jones said:
The hill (just beyond the crowd) is a beggar to walk back up !
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It is really steep, yes. Dodgy hips beware ;)
Got my car clamped in the top of the hill car park for 10' over time. Cost me £90. Many people I know had the same mishap. Tried to argue and haggle to no avail. Someone must be making a hefty profit on the tourists. The chap told me it was very good business as new people came everyday and kept him busy...
 
Here's another one looking downhill.

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rhl-oregon said:
A truly madly deeply fabulous portrait. Thank you for the example.
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Concur! At the risk of taking it off-topic of this thread just a bit, Photo-Smith would you be willing to tell us how you did the lighting on this? That's not to minimise what your composition or the Rolleiflex or the Rodinal can do, but it seems the lighting is great.

--Dave
 
My lighting set up is fairly simple I have two diffused lights one on the left pointing at his temple about 2 meters away, one on the right making the 'catch' light in his eye (setting the light higher than the subject helps stop reflection in his glasses.

A third hot light is on a boom above and slightly forward, this had no diffuser on it (normally a hair light, especially important for people with dark hair (like the one of Mel in my gallery), in this case I had to be careful.
The film was exposed at 1/30 at f4 (incident meter set 400) quite narrow DOF especially with the Rolleinar.
Developed Rodinal 1:50 for 11 mins with one inversion per min.

Thank you for your interest, it's nice to get compliments.
 
Here's Mel from the same sitting:


Mel 2 by Photo Utopia, on Flickr

If you look in her right eye you can see both lights, the one above is the hair light, when I get round to printing the backgrond will be darker as will her hair- by a tiny amount.
 
I had to get my wife up here to see this portrait of "Steven" by Photo-Smith.
Words absolutely fail me ( and I can be verbose ). This is something to aspire to,Thanks
Peter
 
Thank you all very much, I don't think it's that wonderful–I may do a re shoot :)

Anyone here could have shot it, all you need is a TLR and a close up focus lens...

Thanks again...
Mark Antony
 
Photo_Smith said:
My lighting set up is fairly simple I have two diffused lights one on the left pointing at his temple about 2 meters away, one on the right making the 'catch' light in his eye (setting the light higher than the subject helps stop reflection in his glasses.

A third hot light is on a boom above and slightly forward, this had no diffuser on it (normally a hair light, especially important for people with dark hair (like the one of Mel in my gallery), in this case I had to be careful.[...]
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Thanks Photo_Smith, and indeed I asked about the lighting partly because of that situation that called for care. (OK let's say it: Steven's shiny pate.) You've kept things under control with only just a moderate reflection/hot-spot, mostly over his right eye. Had I done such a portrait of, for example, my equally bald dad, I don't think I could have controlled it so well. And yes, Mel's right eye did help the explanation! Cheers...

--Dave
 
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