Melchi, Halloween, 2008

Here's my Nosferatu style portrait of Melchi.

I did a little etching on the neg to tone down the hot spot on the bench and the front leg, will probably do a bit more for the final version.
Location
At the Hammond A101
Equipment Used
8x10 Sinar P, 10"/f:4 Voigtlander Petzval
Exposure
strobes, f:22
Film & Developer
Ektapan/ABC pyro
Paper & Developer
Azo G2/Ansco 130
Very cool, David! Love the look on his face.
- Thomas
 
This is a really wonderful image. So handsome and how much he has grown since our dinner party !?

Was that was almost 2 years ago...? Oh my..
 
Thanks, folks. Yes, he'll be 2 in December.

The light is pretty simple, but if anyone's curious I've got two lights here, one in a plain 5" reflector with barndoors pointed upward just in front of the camera, and another with a Norman cylindrical background diffuser with two barndoors on a boom over the organ. The main light is about two stops brighter than the background light.

The blacks also separate much more nicely on the print than I can register in the scan.
 

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Added by
David A. Goldfarb
Date added
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Image metadata

Device
NIKON E990
Aperture
ƒ/7.9
Focal length
14.9 mm
Exposure time
1/60 second(s)
ISO
100
Filename
melchi_halloween_2008_full.jpg
File size
100 KB
Date taken
Mon, 10 November 2008 12:02 AM
Dimensions
484px x 600px

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