Film W/NW - Black and White Portraits

Amin

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I'll get things started with a couple portraits of friends at work. Nikon 105/2.5 AIS, Arista Premium:


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I spent a couple of days around Margaret Whiting when the friend of a friend brought her to Albuquerque for some private performances years back (mid 1990's). She very kindly sang "Misty" for me after the performance as I took some shots with an Old Hasselblad loaded with HP5. This is my favorite.

For my money, she owns the vocal version of this classic, just as Benny Carter owns the instrumental rendering. (I saw and heard him in Cambridge MA doing it years ago, and thought I'd died and gone to heaven!)
 
I really like your portraits a LOT, Larry. I guess it's that four letter ingredient (L...) that you've mentioned in another thread and that has nothing to do with technical specs but the motivating force behind it all - it just shines through.

(2.56 a.m. over here, high time to hit the straw.)

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Fuji Neopan Acros 100, Hasselblad 500CM 80mm f2.8 Planar
 
A bookseller I know:
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My late neighbor, Mike, who through a decade of serious illness got out every opportunity he could and worked in his yard or on his old Ford truck.
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Both shot on HP5 with the Hasselblad 500CM
 
One more, this one taken almost 25 years ago with a Hasselblad 1000F, my very first Hasselblad. There was something about the Zeiss glass from the early fifties that I really loved. Its native contrast was just about perfect for my taste.

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Some film portraits shot over the last few years:

Kodak BW400CN
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Zulma
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Kodak Tri-X
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JDP
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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En la Calle del Cristo
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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En la Calle Luna
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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El arrendador
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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Polito
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford HP-5+
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Antonio
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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Zulma
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Ilford Delta 100
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Zulma
by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

All on a Leica M6TTL and 50mm 2.8 Elmar M (1, 2, 4, 5, and 6), 90mm 2.5 Summarit (3), 50mm 1.5 ZM C-Sonnar (8 and 9), and on a Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS (7).

Cheers,

Antonio
 
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