Dry Plate - Momma's Boy

• scheimfluger_77

• Jan 11, 2019

Just need a little fill light on the other side. A big piece of poster board as a reflector would work. Place it just outside the frame.

 

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  Nodda Duma

• Jan 11, 2019

@scheimfluger_77 Thanks I thought that might be the most glaringly obvious thing missing but wanted to get opinions from learned experts. TBH I was so caught off-guard by my wife agreeing to a photo that I wanted to get it done before she changed her mind.

 

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  jtk

• Jan 11, 2019

It's already a digital photo, thanks to its existence on Photrio. A little processing would help.

 

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  Peter Black

• Jan 11, 2019

It was the lighting that attracted me to this lovely family shot. You've done the hard bit in getting an in-focus shot of 2 people on an LF camera, so I guess a little lift of the shadows in software might yield a more wall-friendly result for the family?

 

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  awty

• Jan 12, 2019

Great freckles. How does the plates go with a blue filter?

 

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  Nodda Duma

• Jan 12, 2019

@awty This is an ortho plate but the UV/blue still dominates heavily so using a blue filter wouldn’t change too much.

 

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  jtk

• Jan 12, 2019

Appears to have a lot more visual information than the scan (or whatever) reveals.

 

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  Nodda Duma

• Jan 12, 2019

@jtk yes there’s a lot of latitude (dynamic range?) to this emulsion.

 

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  jtk

• Jan 12, 2019

I'd like to see that with this image.

 

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  tnp651

• Nov 10, 2019

It's a lovely, tender portrait. The hand communicates care and protection. As you know, the boy's face is too dark. There's probably enough shadow detail to dodge his face. There's a catchlight in your wife's shadowed eye so that side doesn't necessarily need dodging, but it wouldn't hurt. This one's a keeper and probably a family heirloom.
Tom