Counti the Magnifico

It's still gorgeous, Monty! And that is a very handsome daughter you have. I recognize her restlessness in my 13yo son, who can't stand more than doing one print at a time in the darkroom... "My legs are tired!" ... "My feet hurt!" ... "I kinda need to go check something in my email..." It's funny.
Great portrait. I have no idea how much a 20x24 sheet of film is, but a re-take for me I'm sure would mean I couldn't fill up my car that week... But it really is a great portrait as it is! Sharpness isn't everything. Character and general feel counts much more in my opinion and there's heaps of it here.
- Thomas

I feel your pain Monty.

Great image of a beautiful child (from her mothers side, no doubt!)

This powerful portrait echos Julia Margaret Cameron's imagery. Let's see more from that gorgeous 20x24 inch Ebony camera!

Another stunner, Monty! I'm beginning to feel that my 12x20 is like a half-frame Olympus. Beautiful.

Tav

Great portrait, but as a side note--this is an excellent demonstration of Ron Wisner's thesis about expectations regarding focal length with big cameras. Beginners at 8x10" and larger often go by the rule that works for 35mm and medium format that a nice portrait lens should be about twice as long as a normal lens for the format, but as you go up in format, this becomes increasingly impractical (for 20x24", you would want a 1500mm lens, and then the bellows extension would be around 3000mm for this shot), and for various reasons, the distortion one expects with a wider than normal lens doesn't really apply. 550mm is a wide lens on 20x24 (maybe like a 35mm lens on 35mm), but it doesn't look extraordinarily distorted in this head-and-shoulders portrait.

To David's point the lens to nose distance on this portrait and the one Kerik posted was a little less than two feet.

Monty

Very special girls and a very special portrait.
Thanks for sharing.


jan

The slight movement and captured moment (an unexpected exposure) just make this picture. Lovely.

Excellent portrait, beautiful model!