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starting to get into portraits

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Daniel Buck

New member
I've only taken a few, but so far I've enjoyed doing it, so I'm gong to start doing more of them, friends, coworkers, and the like.

lily_01.jpg


rileys_14.jpg


ikon_hike_03.jpg



and the last, a self portrait, hah! testing out the self-timer on the 6x9 folder

ikon_hike_06.jpg
 
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Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Welcome

Hi Daniel...

Just took a look at your website....love the black and white - really interesting images.

We keep talking about getting together a bunch of OPF'ers from the LA area. Now we have one more! Welcome to the board. Love to see more of your images.

Kathy
 
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Clayton Lofgren

New member
Like the gal on the pony, but I am bothered by the background. I would crop a good bit of the top and burn some highlights.
I would also like to shoot trees like you do.
 
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doug anderson

New member
I like #1 in particular; it's almost a period photo.

I wish you'd lose those frames, however. The frames are cheap. The photos are good. There's a clash.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Daniel,

I love your work and will return and comment more. Tell us about the cameras and set up. what lenses are you using.

Asher
 
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Daniel Buck

New member
Sure :) The first 2 are on a 1940s 4x5 speedgraphic, with an old theater projection lens (roughly 145mm f2). The Speedgraphic works wonderful with this lens, since the speed has a shutter built in to the camera, and the lens has no shutter or aperture at all. although this camera could be hand held, I usually use it on a tripod, especially with lenses like this f2 lens that require critical focusing on the ground glass. Right now the lens is just mounted on cardboard, but a coworker of mine is going to CNC cut a nice board for me sometime soon :) I have stripped off all the range-finder and other stuff that I don't need on the camera (though I left the top viewfinder) to try and save a bit of weight, and have less doo-dads sticking out of the camera to snag on things, hah!

The last 2 photos were shot on a 1950s Zeiss Ikon 6x9 folding camera (range finder), I don't know much about it. I usually hand-hold this one, like in the last photo with the self timer. It uses regular 120 film, I get about 8 or 9 shots per roll.

Here is a photo of the speedgraphic setup, before I stripped some of the parts off. I don't have a photo of the 6x9 folder:

bauschlomb_01.jpg


bauschlomb_02.jpg
 
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