W/NW Portraits (not Street Portraits)

Yesterday´s BBR- Birthday Bicycle Ride (The damsel turned 61, pretty young on the RFF scale)
Enjoying the Petzval 55 on the Nikon Z5 a lot.
Focussing manual lenses with the Z evf is so much easier than with an SLR viewfinder- focus peaking available!DSC_0140.jpg


"Go stick it to the forum!" an inner voice told me.
 
Harry the K said:
Yesterday´s BBR- Birthday Bicycle Ride (The damsel turned 61, pretty young on the RFF scale)
Enjoying the Petzval 55 on the Nikon Z5 a lot.
Focussing manual lenses with the Z evf is so much easier than with an SLR viewfinder- focus peaking available!View attachment 4841281


"Go stick it to the forum!" an inner voice told me.
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I'm glad you listened to your inner voice; this is a wonderful image! Great use of the Petzval as well. That type of lens is a difficult beast to control. And Happy Birthday to the damsel! Ah, to be only 61 again...
 
boojum said:
I may have posted this before, Irina at lunch with a Caprese salad, and me. The restaurant is Picolino's in Seattle, a nice little local joint.
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Nice use of what appears to be existing light in a flattering short lighting setup and good tones.
 
brusby said:
Nice use of what appears to be existing light in a flattering short lighting setup and good tones.
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It's the damned camera. If you follow the link to Flickr you will see that the image is quite sharp. But HB can still make a very sharp image flattering. I wish I could take more credit beyond pointing the camera and pushing the button but I cannot.

Irina is in St. Petersburg now and I hope she can get out of Russia and come back.

But thanks for the back pat. ;o)
 
Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream" lens. Took it out this weekend to see if I could get some useable portraits with it. Always liked the way it handles specular highlights, but it often looks too soft and fuzzy. So, 'trying to put those characteristics to good use.

_6__0269 by Brusby, on Flickr
 
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boojum said:
It's the damned camera. If you follow the link to Flickr you will see that the image is quite sharp. But HB can still make a very sharp image flattering. I wish I could take more credit beyond pointing the camera and pushing the button but I cannot.

Irina is in St. Petersburg now and I hope she can get out of Russia and come back.

But thanks for the back pat. ;o)
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I don't think so. I'm guessing the image would look essentially the same with almost any decent modern camera. What sets it apart is the nice lighting. At least IMNSHO. But nice job.
 
brusby said:
Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream" lens. Took it out this weekend to see if I could get some useable portraits with it. Always liked the way it handles specular highlights, but it often looks too soft and fuzzy. So, 'trying to put those characteristics to good use . . .
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Is that shot wide open? If so, I'm really impressed. Somehow I had the impression that this wasn't a sharp lens.
 
mdarnton said:
Is that shot wide open? If so, I'm really impressed. Somehow I had the impression that this wasn't a sharp lens.
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Yes, shot at f0.95 on a Canon R6II, zoomed in to get proper focus. The lens is sharp, but images right out of the camera are often soft and a bit low in contrast, akin to a log file in a video shoot. I always thought this lens had great potential, particularly in the way it renders specular highlights, but most portraits I've seen with it posted on the net I wouldn't be satisfied with 'cause they look too soft and dull. So, this session was a test for me to see if I could make some images with it that I liked. I did my usual dodging, burning and a bit of sharpening -- which I almost always do anyway to just about every raw image to make it conform to my interpretation of the scene. So images SOOC probably won't look like this but it's pretty easy to transform them with just a minimum of effort.
 
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