Jim (Gim)

Nice portrait of Jim dlin. Yes, he will bend a ear and always has good conversations. Met him this last winter in Joshua Tree.
What lens did you use?, a good focus job on the eyes and face with the rest falling in different degrees of softness.Nice lighting also.

Mike

Very nice portrait !

This and the others are superb portraits. Makes me want to know more about that Imagon lens. I see the print was toned in thiocarbamide. I thought that would produce more of sepia, no? Or is it a gold formula? Great work.

Thanks, everyone.

Mike, I used a 200mm Imagon lens without the diffusion disk on a 4x5 camera. The lens is a simple doublet design and I can use the shutter's iris to adjust the degree of "softness". Wide open, as in these portraits, it's very soft with lots spherical aberration.

Regarding thiocarbamide toning, I tend to like a subtle warming of the highlights without too drastic a color shift in the midtones/shadows. I use a mild bleach solution to bleach the print back briefly before washing and redeveloping in thiocarbamide. This gives a subtle golden brown hint to the highlights that I prefer.

All the best,
Daniel

Gim is looooking good here. More fine work Daniel. Dang that that lens is spritual.
Steve