Portrait session with Carmella

Shot some photos with a wonderful model, Carmella. I used my Nikon D700 and a variety of lenses, including the 50mm f/1.2 AIS, 85mm f/1.8 AI, 35mm f/2 AF, and 17-35mm f/2.8.

Here are some highlights:

8x10 Portraiture with the Gundlach Radar 300mm f/4.5

Here's a few 8x10 portraits I did in the last week, including the "normal" scan of the previous 8x10 post. Other than that one, all of these were done with my Gundlach Radar 300mm f/4.5, which at f/8 is simply fantastic and has a beautiful rendering of the subject. All of these are of course on my Fuji green-sensitive x-ray film rated at ISO 50, developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 7 minutes at 72F. I am currently re-evaluating my temperature control when working with x-ray film so the time/temps for this combo may change.

Fuji Sensia 35mm slides from Labor Day

I shot a roll of 35mm slides over Labor Day with my little Nikkormat EL. I wasn't expecting much but they came out really well! I love the look of this Fuji Sensia film. Here are a few shots, taken generally with a 35mm f/2, 50mm f/1.2, 85mm f/1.8, or 105mm f/2.5:

Quick Portrait on 8x10 with a 300mm Symmar-S f/5.6

The sun was going down and I wanted to shoot something on my 8x10 since I had a sheet of x-ray film loaded. Our front porch was nicely back-lit so I got Meagan to pose for me.

I shot this sheet of Fuji Super HR-T x-ray film at ISO 50, with the 300mm wide-open at f/5.6 (for those interested, that's equivalent to approximately a 40mm f/0.75 on full-frame digital or 35mm. Anyway, I shot it at 1/125 and also used my Nikon SB-800 for fill-flash. I developed it in Rodinal at 68F for 6:30. Since my Agfa scanner is unable to connect to my new computer I had to "scan" it with my DSLR.

I usually put my 4x5 images on top of my enlarger's light head to "scan" them this way. Since I don't have an 8x10 enlarger I instead put it on a piece of foam board which I then placed on top of a studio hot light. It worked as a ghetto lightbox, but made the image textured. I kind of like the effect. I will still do a proper scan later.

Here is the result:

TORNADO! Well almost.

Today had quite a bit of excitement. Right outside of the building where I work a small tornado almost touched down - but while it wasn't a full-fledged twister (probably an F0), it did tear down many trees and made quite a mess of the power lines. We are lucky it wasn't worse!

I had my Polaroid 900 on-hand so I shot a pack of 100C film. Here are the results...