Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leonard Taupier <len-001@verizon.net> wrote: >That ISO 32 Tri-X photo is fantastic. No grain at all. And I can see >why you have a 16X20 of it. What a shot and what a gorgeous model. > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Model_AMR.jpg.html> > And Ric Carter <ricc@embarqmail.com>wrote: >The technical info on the tri-x portrait is as interesting as the >grain structure. >That said, the portrait is a different take on a lovely model. >A clean, simplified composition--half the face, twice the art ________________________________________________________________________________ And I think I sould only take half the credit. I was emulating a photo by Otto Steinert, "Portrait of Lotte", but something about the model's face seemed to call for this treatment. The reason for exposing Tri-X at 32 ISO was that I only had my Leica and Tri-X with me at this industrial photographer's meeting. The guest speaker was a fashion photographer who invited everyone to use his strobe set-up and shoot the models. The flashes were so strong that I had no choice but to expose at f/22 and 1/50, which gave me the ISO 32 figure. I probably was the only one there using a Leica RF. Everyone else was taking medium shots with SLR's, but the next year this photo won second place/ people, in the organization's annual contest, and I've been thankful to this woman ever since, for her wonderful face. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/