Uncle Nick - My first 4x5 portrait ever! (also my 3rd piece of sheet film ever!).

Bravo!

Nice shot

Nice photo with an interesting point of view. Very good start for a first LF portrait imho.

Thanks guys! ~Whitey, you helped, I haven no new55, nor 665, but by helping with that 545 device it was just another motivator to push me to LF, ~Zsas and others who commented at the perspective, well I was using my movements to their max, and actually was relatively straight on to start with and then dropped and angled a lot of things to get this "from below" look, I'm very happy with it. ~Oolalajp, yea mean, it's great, I have a 70mm back I keep meaning to start using but I'm having a lot of fun with the control of using sheets, taking two and developing one then adjusting as needed to get the perfect second negative (I didn't do that with this but certainly like the process, especially with long exposure work, I just did a 1 hour "test" exposure, followed by another for the "real shot" haha, it should be interesting). ~naeroscatu, thanks, again I started from almost straight on, but used my movements to achieve this, but good call on the uncles personality, he sure does portray the kind who likes to stand above... ~selmslie, thanks, no darkroom, but I did just pick up the MOD54 and I'm very happy with it (the second gen version) it uses about 500ml less than the old FR tank, doesn't leak of course, and wasn't really any harder to load than the FR, just different. I'll keep the FR for when I develop IR400 film, it's flimsy as hell... ~Rick A, tony lockerbie, Kevin Caulfield, martinjames, Eric Rose, henbo thanks so much guys!! I really tried to get good smoke so I'm glad it came out properly. ~And last and certainly not least, illumiquest, thank you, you're the king of portraits so I take this to mean I'm doing ok... More to come!

i missed this when it was first posted,
and glad i found it ...
great portrait stone!
looking forward to the next !