Archive for the ‘Portraits’ Category

My new Alpa is proving quite apt at environmental portraits.

With a 35/5.6 lens you wouldn’t expect shallow DOF but it is the same visual appearance as a 24/3.8 in 35mm terms. So when you get in quite close you can selectively focus.

I have been playing around with scale focusing and the hit rate has been surprisingly good. Manual focusing with a focus scale has made me pretty good at judging distance over the years I guess.

Thanks to my girlfriend Sarah for being a good sport and posing for me

Here are the shots from Mel doing the greatest shave.

A link to a zip of all the images is here

The most difficult to develop black & white film in the world IMO.

Rollei ATO 2.1 is an Orthochromatic (only sensitive to blue) true lithographic film.

A incredibly sharp S contrast curve requiring careful and dilute developer. A very thin 100 micron acetate base and coming in the dustiest box ever meant very difficult scanning and cleaning up.

Here is one acceptable shot. ISO 12, 135mm f/3.5 1/25s handheld.