Portraits of People

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Tanya S, My first day with a new 85mm f/1.8 AFS-G.

Very nice. Was this shot at f1.8?

I just checked the EXIF information. This portrait of Tanya was shot at ISO 500 @f/3.2 at 1/160 second. This was on a trail hiking area and this photo session if you can call it that, lasted about 90 seconds.

 

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Youth beauty pageant contestant, no makeup allowed, no retouching allowed, shot on location in her family's TV room, which had a huge gray projection TV screen. For the background light I used a Speedotron M11 head and I fired a red gel which had a badly faded center and got this in-camera pink background. The main light was one umbrella box at about 100 Watt-seconds. The badly faded red gel was one I had bought in 1986 and had held onto for about two decades. It was badly-faded where it had been taped over a light, but the edges were deep red and that is how I got this amazing gradient fill look with no retouching, and no manipulation at all.

f/10, 130mm at 1/100 second, at ISO 100

 

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1989, Kodacolor Gold 200, Speedotron with umbrella, white-painted 20 in square under chin reflector, gel fired at black background.

 

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1989, made within minutes of the above color shot, Kodacolor Gold 200 film negative scanned and converted to Black and White. Shot with either a Nikon 85 mm f2 AI or 105 mm / 2.5 AI-S.

 

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Tanya about a week after I met her on the trail near Multnomah Falls.This shot was made with a 105 millimeter lens on a beach of the Columbia River at a park just outside of Vancouver, Washington.

 

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Vancouver, Washington model Randi Stewart, Portland, Oregon, in August at what was then a brand-new park called The Fields. Nikon D3x, 70-300 VR -G lens.

 

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D3x, 80-200 f/4 AI-s lens, Speedotron flash, my son back when he was about 9 years old, watching one of his TV shows

 

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Tierra D, Speedotron D405 flash pack, VF 206 flash head, 20x20 inch made-in-China softbox. F/8 At 1/25 ( to pick up ambient), 130MM at ISO 125.

 

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Senior portrait, open field sun + large white reflector (36x 72 inches) panel.105mm at f/5.6, 1/500 second, ISO 250.

 

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Jenni, 102mm at f /7.1, ISO 100, 1/200 second, Nikon D2x, Speedotron 102 flash heads, 11.5 inch gridded hairlight.

 

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Ameerah, apartment living room, D2x, 50mm lens at f/10, 1/125 second, Speedotron Brown Line Flash 20 x 20 inch made-in-China softbox as main light.

 

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October 18, 2017, young tourist in Columbia Gorge scenic area, outside the Vista House. Nikon D610, 180mm AF-D lens at f/4, 1/1000 second, ISO 100, vintage preset in Lightroom.

 

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Alina and her fiance, at Vista House, Nikon D610, October,2017.70-300 AF-S G lens.

 

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Alina and her fiance, Nikon D610, 1990's Tokina 70-210 pawnshop lens.

 

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Jenni, Canon 5D, Adapted Nikon lens (likely 85mm f1.4 AF-D), NO F/stop data in EXIF, 1/1000 second, ISO 400.