Few dozens photos published. See portfolio,
OMP 30813 or on our
website.
Jan 11 2009. Joined this site
Feb 08 2009. Worked with model
Curare. Thank god from time to time there are local models in this town who are pleasure to work with. Bad part - it's university place and they tend to move out sooner or later. Anyway worked for an hour or so with great pleasure, then run out of loaded film in holders and one of power packs started to behave funny (bad sync cord?). Instead of reloading new film and sorting out flash problem we decited to see what will develop on the film and do another session later.
Here one of scanned negs:
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Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm. F32 1/200sec Speedotron Elipsoidal on back ground (1 KW/s), Speedotron 8' Fresnel on model 2Kw/s.
Feb 15 2009. Worked with
Deb from Bloomington. She's natural retro/pin up girl right from the door, preparation for studio work was minimal and largely unnecessary. We did mostly light testing, worked for almost 2 hours.
Here's one of BW negatives:
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm. F23/1sec 4 Speedotron heads bounced off ceiling (~6KW/s).
Chrome (E6) from other light setup:
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm. One light - Speedotron Elipsoidal on Speedotron 4803CX pack set to 2Kw/s
Feb 21 2009. Was asked by MM to not display images with nudity on front page. Policy thing - need to respect advertisers, I replaced images with links & warnings.
Feb 22 2009. Worked with
Curare, we're doing editorial for one of fetish publication for next month, that's what theme is about:
Scanned b/w neg:
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Camera Sinar P2, Lens Schneider Super Angulon XL 90mm
Scanned E6 chrome:
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Camera Sinar F2, Lens Schneider Super Angulon XL 90mm
Studio floor was shiny clean after that vacuuming:)
Feb 23 2009.
Xena and her very photogenic friend been here all day. Haven't seen Xena forever (well ~4 years), we took pics, had chat ...
E6 chrome:
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm
Couple of Type 55 Polaroids:
Xenas friend
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm
Gasmask/Latex
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Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm.
PS. I see several people trying to emulate Type 55 in PhotoShop. Above is how real thing looks:)
Feb 28 2009.
Chrystyne was here. We had chat, took some pics. One of important sides of modeling - intelligence and deep understanding of art, life and career is what often is just passed on the side and wrongfully ignore in model. IMHO intelligence and right state of mind is what makes model. Anyway, enough babble, here are pics:
Latex B/W TMAX-2 400:
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Schneider Super Angulon XL 90mm.
It was my 1st time using new Kodak TMAX-2. I had long time supply of old TMAX but eventually runed out of it. Anyway, I still get to get a feel of this film. Image above I developed as before using HC110 dil E 8min in rotary drum. Neg on light box looked rather contrasty, but scanned fine. Next batch see another B/W bellow I did 6.5 mins, a bit less visual contrast. Anyway, I may try Tmax RS as Kodak suggest (I never had good feel of it).
C41 Scanned neg:
Camera Sinar P2, Lens Nikkor SW 150mm.
Another TMAX-2-400:
Camera Sinar F2, Lens Schneider Super Angulon XL 90mm.
HC110 dil E 6.5 mins rotary. Speedotron 8' Fresnel (connected to 4K/ws pack) on model, Speedotron Beauty dish with grid and lightsock (to kill the light) connected to speedo 1205CX pack on bare minimum w/s on background.
Seminude pic on Polaroid Type 55 (love polaroids!):
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Camera Sinar P2, Lens Schneider Nikkor SW 150mm.
Mar 22 2009.
Natalie was here, again it was long time ago when we had her in our studio. Not so much time we had she had to go back to Chicago at 3PM, we did some polaroids:
Sinar F2, Nikkor 65MM F4 lens.
Sinar P2, Nikkor 150mm SW lens
Apr 05 2009. Worked with
Fenne DeMore on same editorial, it was fun. She brought latex, I bought food wrapping in grocery store. Her friend/escort was very helpful wrapping her with plastic:)
Kodak Portra 400
Sinar F2, Nikkor 65mm, F22
Polaroid Type 55 neg
Sinar F2, Nikkor 65mm, F22
Kodak TMAX 400-2 (8 mins in HC110 dil 8), this one has some nudity in it:
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Apr 18 2009.
Deb was here. She is amazing, I opened the door and here she is all sharp and in style, not sure if modeling even applies to her - that's her lifestyle and mind set.
Anyway, took some polaroids:
Polaroid 55 negative, Sinar F2 camera, Nikkor 65mm lens at F16
Polaroid 55 negative, Sinar F2 camera, Nikkor 65mm lens at F22
Polaroid 55 negative, Sinar F2 camera, Nikkor 65mm lens at F22
Apr 19 2009.
Curare was here. She had nice pink goth outfit with matching hair ... to finish pink theme she also brought pink puppy & pink yogurt. Before we got to yogurt & puppy we did regular pics:
Sinar P2, Nikkor 150mm lens, Polaroid Type 55 negative. F16.
I do not think that this pic breaks MM nudity rules, but if pple will complain I change it to link
Here's scan from Kodak Portra 400 Negative:
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Sinar F2, Schneider 90mm XL lens, F22.
Then come yogurt, initially in small quantities:
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Sinar P2, Schneider 360mm MC lens, F22. Polaroid again.
After that we had a lot of yogurt all over model, floor etc. One day I may add one of those pics.
Apr 26 2009.
Mandie Mae from IN was in the studio today. She brought nice wedding dress. We had fun:
Type 55 polaroid:
Sinar F2, Nikkor 65mm lens
Two others contain some nudity:
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And
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May 04 2009. Decided to go to
Columbus, OH Haunted Warehouse GroupShootColumbus, OH Haunted Warehouse GroupShoot. Here's my preliminary schedule working with models there:
9-10 -- Signup walk over --- *
beesknees
10-11
The Gotham Girl *
11-12 OPEN
Alex N *
12- 1 -- Break --- *
1- 2
Goddessangie1 *
2- 3
Naughtya *
3- 4
Natasha Fatale *
4- 5
Tabs Doll *
5-6
Sophie *
6
Alkemie *
[
* - confirmed]
Most probably I'll just pick 5-6 locations on location and move lights around, once light is setup I'll need 10-15mins, so I'd guess walk by's by registered models is ok. I'll post locations later.
Here's preliminary location schedule based on Laura's MySpace pics. I can adjust it a bit based on inputs, but can't jump from floor to floor frequently - too much stuff to move.
Basement 9-12AM
Boiling tanks
Hallway
2nd floor 12-2PM
White broken glass room
open warehouse floor
3rd floor 2PM-3PM
Broken elevator cage
4th floor 4PM-7PM
Bathroom
Open warehouse
Main floor (maybe)
Medical things - is there dental chair there?
Outside (maybe)
outside
PS. I'm looking for assistant to help me move lights etc. I have rather bulky film 4x5 setup(: In exchange I'll let you use my light setup and take pics and can cover entry fee. Assistant needs to have own optical/IR or Skyport wireless trigger and be not disturbing.
May 23 2009. Traveling to event was rather nice. Sinar C2, 2 lenses, couple of stands, 2 speedo 1K powerpacks, 1 speedo ellipsoidal light and one 102 head, misc stuff, film - I ended up with 42" long tenba bag & travel bag weighting ~120lb ...
As planned the schedule - set things up in the basement, just to find out that I'm missing power cords to both packs &%^$*#!!! Glad that I used Columbus Camera Group camera store to mail order few things before. Called them up - they got cables. Luckily one of photographers was off for an hour because of "no show" model - he gave me ride to the store.
Pretty soon I realized that moving my stuff from floor to floor in assembled form is just no way. Stayed in the basement all day. Missed few models because of that (or maybe they didn't showed up). Did only polaroids this time.
Anyway, here are few pics from there, I may add more as I go over negs.
Model Sophie
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Sinar C2, Schneider 72mm SA XL lens. F16
Model Alkemie
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Same setup as above. F16, 1 sec
Jul 5th Curare was in the studio. She brought some wires, we did weird stuff. Somehow when shooting E6 slides I misplaced film holders and instead of using 2nd film holder I reloaded 1st. Guess what - double exposure is what it is called:) Plus to that when I loaded film in to Jobo ATL somehow chemistry volume got set to 45ml instead of 1L, I did realized that, but only after 1st developer did whole cycle ... anyway, here's what turned out, I actually like it, I bet pple can spend days doing this in Photoshop:
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Sinar P2, Schneider 72mm lens
Jul 15th worked with
Bella Apryl. She lives in near by town. It was fun session. 1st session, so we changed lights/outfits to get familiar. I also did experimented with different types of film for my own curiosity. Fact is that Polaroid type 55 that I like is out of production, I'm looking for ways to replace it. I'm working of few ways to develop negs from various of alternative film emulsions some give very interesting aka 60's color film look. Here are examples of different emulsions.
Classic/modern Kodak EPP emulsion. Standard development in E6 chemicals:
Polaroid Type 55. Out of production and probably history. There's project called
Impossible project in Netherlands that has hopes to restore Polaroid process, but mostly they are about color/Integral process, not instant negs.
My experiments with alternative negative emulsion - well a bit laughable, but hey, I like it:) except chemicals that I currently use to do it are a bit nasty.
All pics - camera Sinar P2, lens Schneider SuperAngulon 72mm XL. 1/120sec F22.
Jul 16th Amy visited studio for 1st time. She has natural airy flying summer clout nature, I had rather to constrain her cause of work flow with large format camera - my light stand weights 140lb:) and I have to focus, load film etc. ... 3 hours, floor covered with piles of polaroids. It was fun.
Das homebrew Color (see notes on alternative color above):
Polarod Type 55, MM may consider it sheer (last time I had semi nude pic open here - I got "reminder" email from moderator, I'll put link to pic:
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All pics - camera Sinar P2, lens Schneider SuperAngulon 72mm XL. 1/120sec F22.
Jul 16th-26th Had nice week off St Joe Island FL. No models there:)
Here's one pic from there (developed in resort bathroom) Sinar F2, 72mm SA XL. F22, 15mins. Mid day about 1:30PM very sunny and windy day (waves actually been pretty high)
Bicycle on the beach:
Aug 15th woops
Nov 10-17th Been in Seattle worked with few models there, in small studios, model apartments and hotel room. Still sorting out developed film, Here's
Ann Mari's pic we did in
Thomas Park studio:
Camera Linhof Techikardan, Schneider 210mm APO lens, 5.6, Tmax-400 film
And few pics of
Ileana Nartker
Camera Linhof Techikardan S, Schneider 210mm APO lens, F5.6, Tmax-400 film
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Camera Linhof Techikardan, Schneider 72mm SA lens, 5.6, Tmax-400 film
