Calling Portra 160NC experts....

Allan Swindles

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It has been a conisderable number of years since I have used colour neg. and was about to post for recommendations when I saw this post. I was taught to expose for the shadows with neg. film and for highlights with positive film. I have modified that advice somewhat however to expose for the shadow or highlight where I require to show detail. It seems to work fine for me with box speed.
 

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Here are two new pictures shot on Porta 160 NC. Self developed in Rollei Digibase C41 chemistry. I am now testing Rollei RA4 for optical/wetprinting in my lab.
 

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wblynch

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Beautiful work kompressor

(Note to self... get some Rollei Digibase C41 chemistry !!)
 

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kompressor, please don't take this feedback in the wrong way. You are a talented photographer and know your way around film and lighting.

However, I don't find the latest picture to be a beautiful portrait. A beautiful girl does not a beautiful portrait make. Great lighting, yes. But there was nothing in the portrait for a viewer to relate to. I don't know how the environment and her relate to each other, I can't really understand the expression on her face - seems bored than anything else.

I loved the car shot though!
 

Mark Antony

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I think it is a good portrait, has an almost timeless look. I think rather than bored having her look out of the frame disengages her from the viewer-which to me adds to the feel.
I think all the elements make up Kompressors photographic style, and its a strong one.
My only (slight) bugbear is the Knee/leg which I would crop ou to make a square image-but I must stress this is my personal feelings (I shoot square) not really a critique.
Regards to all.
Mark
 

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That is all okay, cause the picture refered to, is a part og a large fashion spread in a magazine. The oposite page(left page) a picture not showed here will give the fill for just that picture. The whole fashion series is about two people who like to live their life in glamour, but are stucked in 2010 and the urban place they have to live is NOT glamour. Its like about a blond Jackie Kennedy stucked in a workers home The picture was not added to learn away portrature techniques, but developing and use of film for structure/grain and colour palette. So i agree, its not a beautiful portrait Its a commercial picture in an editorial spread

http://www.tmax100.com/portfolio/mote/?detectflash=false& <---- a few more from the 12-page spread
 
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I hope i one day can persuade a magazine to let me shoot a full spred of fashion/picturestory in square format and fill the rest of the page with pure white Last year i had two square 6x6 on print in a fashion serie in a magazine, but the rest of the page was black
 

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> few more from the 12-page spread

Thank you for the context, just checked out the spread! Wonderful images (even extending beyond the spread)! You are a very capable photographer and I am super impressed with the control of light. Were all the images on that link taken on film? Tungsten flm perhaps in some of them? And without taking anything away from the man behind the camera and lens, what camera and lens were used?

Thank you for sharing your work!
 

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I only use daylight balanced films. And natural light combined with flash. I use both C41 and E6 films. Cameas are Hasselblad 500C or a Graflex Crown Grapic 45

All shot on film, yes.
 

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Here is a teststrip i did today for testing the long time stability og working solution of my Rolle Digibase C41-chemistry. The one litre of working solution had previously done 15 120 films and been stored in half filled bottles for almost two months now in room-temperature. Strip is done in my studio ona the spot-on reading for this exposure was 1/125 and F11,5 The whole strip is done at 17125 and you can see the aperture on each frame. Developed at standard times from the instructionsheet in a JOBOCPE2.
 

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