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Pastaigā by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

AgfaPhoto APX 100 pushed 2 stops and reversed in PQ Universal. Handheld, will definitely do this again.
 
@Ivo Stunga That looks a lot like North Carolina did this past Sunday evening -- right down to the glossy glaze on the snow due (here) to the storm finishing with an hour or so of freezing drizzle.
 

Bianca And Bear by Ashley Hoff, on Flickr

Going to bore you with a story for a moment. Going back a few years, 2012 to be precise..... this was my first attempt to make a portrait on Large format (Toyo Monorail, with a Schneider 210mm F5.6 lens on Arista EDU Ultra 100. Borrowed by a friend who is no longer into LF). It took me ages to "get it right". From the time I asked my kids to sit till the time I fired the shutter, it was nearly 2 hours (I have 2 daughters, who took it in turn to sit). I got too caught up playing with all those weird and wonderful movements, where's I should have just zero'd them out and taken the shot dammit.

By the time I was ready to take the photo, the kids were bored. I asked them to look miserable and these were the results. Couldn't have gotten better if I had tried!

Lighting was simple - I fired two strobes with the standard lamp shade modifier, off the back wall to fill the room with light. It was a crap shoot, but it worked perfectly

Oh, and the shot of her sister:

Sophie And Guitar by Ashley Hoff, on Flickr

Thanks for looking
 
Donald Qualls said:
@Ivo Stunga That looks a lot like North Carolina did this past Sunday evening -- right down to the glossy glaze on the snow due (here) to the storm finishing with an hour or so of freezing drizzle.
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Hehe, you're reading the conditions right - that's exactly what happened! All the blanket of snow that was there got encapsulated by a sheet of ice, roads were frozen solid and ice skates would've gotten you further with less effort - lovely conditions to photograph, imho.

hoffy said:
As an Australian, I can't even fathom living in conditions like this. Nice mood.
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Thank you! As Latvian I cannot fathom living further North, but people seem to do it with ease on a daily basis - we can adapt to **** and love it dearly!
We have a temperate climate here so I can enjoy 30°C summers and -30°C (rare) winters and it keeps things changing and fresh.
 
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I like it.
 
Latvian Lady 'INNA' posed for use at the 70th Anniversary Garden Party of Brentwood & District Photographic Club, England. I used my 'GIFT' Mamiya C330 F Pro + 135mm f4.5 Blue Dot Sekors and tried some Kodak T-Max 100 in 510-Pyro 1:100 -- Not the 'Best Combination' for THIs film I think -
 
My Granddaughter Nora photo taken with a 1938 Perfex Speed Candid (the Worlds Ugliest Camera )
 

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