Black And White Portrait Thread

some good stuff on here - this is my contribution
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Just looked through from the start and some stunners here! Trying to stop feeling too inadequate to add my attempts to threads so here we go!

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Here's a film shot from this years' 1940s event on the East Lancs Railway.

Nikon FA with AI-S 85mm F2 - shot on Ilford XP2.

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And one of my daughter playing at train guard in the Museum of Liverpool.

Fuji X100 - window light.

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Hell on earth said:
Conversion with two new filters I had not tried before.


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Nice shot certainly looks the part.
It would be worth doing a "straight B/w conversion with full tones as well, as Victorian photographers could manage beautiful tones at the time. (what we see to day has mostly faded)
I looked through your Flickr shots and you have one called "Man 1/1" which has perfect lighting which would make an excellent B/W.
It has very traditional lighting so that you are shooting the shadow side of the face, but it is almost perfectly balanced with reflected light.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
Nice shot certainly looks the part.
It would be worth doing a "straight B/w conversion with full tones as well, as Victorian photographers could manage beautiful tones at the time. (what we see to day has mostly faded)
I looked through your Flickr shots and you have one called "Man 1/1" which has perfect lighting which would make an excellent B/W.
It has very traditional lighting so that you are shooting the shadow side of the face, but it is almost perfectly balanced with reflected light.
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Thanks
There is a standard and the colour here http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=505758

I'll have a look at the other photo :)

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Terrywoodenpic said:
I looked through your Flickr shots and you have one called "Man 1/1" which has perfect lighting which would make an excellent B/W.
It has very traditional lighting so that you are shooting the shadow side of the face, but it is almost perfectly balanced with reflected light.
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A play with a low res
Sort of 60's newspaper look far bit on noise in it ... other ways may or maynot be better


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Terrywoodenpic said:
I have done a modern style conversion to what such a shot might have looked taken on the blue sensative film. before it was faded by time.
What I have not done is give it the sort of high centre sharpness and softening of the edges characteristic of the old lenses. I can put it up if you would allow.
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Please do :)

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I have done a modern style conversion of your colour version with a more blue sensitive emulsion colour balance, but unfaded as it might have started life in Victorian times.
Then another from the same conversion with vignetting and corner blur as would have been seen in early lenses wider open.
Your image is an excellent fun one to try out on. But there is probably no definitive answer to what might have been.






 
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Thought I would share a very old Black and white of the Blacksmith in Boncath about 1956
Repairing the broken king pin on my brothers morgan.

He was the wealthiest man for miles around owned half the village.

 
Terrywoodenpic said:
I have done a modern style conversion of your colour version with a more blue sensitive emulsion colour balance, but unfaded as it might have started life in Victorian times.
Then another from the same conversion with vignetting and corner blur as would have been seen in early lenses wider open.
Your image is an excellent fun one to try out on. But there is probably no definitive answer to what might have been.


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I like this one (y)

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I love B&W, I shoot 90% in B&W. Here are 3



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