Out with my friend Alex Smith on a rather soggy morning, but safe inside the Only Cafe.
The Only Cafe Portrait Series #4 (Alex Smith)
Category: Portraiture
The Only Cafe Portrait Series #3 (Jeff)
Today the third portrait in this ongoing project. It was fun chasing the best light around the table for this portrait; I asked Jeff to sit in three different chairs, and the light was definitely the best where he was sitting for this image.
Outing With a friend (The Only Cafe Portrait Series)
I was out with a photography friend yesterday, and I took this portrait of him at the Only Cafe. The technology was old and new; the camera was my Sony A7ii, but the lens was my old Soviet era Helios 44/2 lens, mounted via adapter. The light was from an overcast day, coming in through a window. I love what this lens can do!
The Smile of a Child
I don’t often get the chance to photograph children, so I was very happy with how this portrait of a friend’s son turned out. (Posted with permission).
Rolleiflex 3.5 E3
Ultrafine Xtreme 100 film
Developed in Rodinal
Summer Shoot
Last Friday was an extremely warm day, but still a good day for a shoot with my friend Natalia! Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm and 250mm lenses, Utrafine Extreme 400 and Kodak TMax 400 films
Hard Shadows
Normally, bright sun and hard shadows are the last thing you want for a portrait, but this time around it worked. 🙂
Hasselblad 500CM, 250mm/f5.6 Zeiss Sonnar lens
Ultrafine Extreme 400 film
Higher Contrast
Experimenting with higher contrast in my portrait work.
Rolleiflex 3.5 E3, Ilford HP5+ film
developed in Cinestill DF96 Monobath
My Good Friend Bryon
Gaze into your past, and see paths and possibilities entangled.
Sony A7ii, 50mm/f1.4 Nikkor lens (pre-AI)
Portrait of a Friend
I was happy to get together with my good friend Ken last Saturday. We met up at The Only Cafe of course. Fairly dimly lit, so I ratcheted up the ISO on the Sony A7ii to 6400. Impressed with the lack of noise! The lens was an old Nikkor 50mm f1.4, mounted via adapter and shot wide open. Quite happy with this image!
Sony A7ii, 50mm Nikkor 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO 6400
Shooting Film on January 1st
Every year on January 1st I go out in the morning with a film camera, so whatever else happens in the year it will still be another year in which I shot film. One of my goals this year is to shoot more portraits, so from the roll I shot yesterday I am choosing a portrait of fellow film photographer Alan Gaunt, who came along with me and Bill Smith for the January 1st outing.
Canon FTb, 50mm/f.8 Canon FD lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
My Third Eye 